If you've seen these men call the FBI at 206-622-0460

From The New York Times:


SEATTLE, Aug. 25 — Earlier this summer a concerned crew member of a Washington State ferry boat snapped pictures of two men who had raised suspicions on several ferry rides by asking questions about structural details and entering areas of the boats that are off limits.


Now, after the Federal Bureau of Investigation released two photographs of the men to the public with the goal of identifying them, a debate has erupted over alleged racial profiling, one ferry was shut down briefly this week and the men, while suddenly familiar faces, remain unidentified.


“We have some promising leads that have come in since we published the pictures,” said Larry Carr, a special agent with the Seattle field office of the F.B.I. The agency released the images on Monday.


The pictures show two men with dark hair and olive skin standing beside a ferry deck railing overlooking the water. Their hands are in their pockets. Their eyes look toward the camera. In a statement released that day, the agency said the men had “exhibited unusual behavior.” The behavior “may have been innocuous,” the agency said, but law enforcement “would like to resolve these reports.”

This is the picture that the New York Times will not show you. The men were reported by the passengers and crew of several ferries as they moved about the boats taking photographs which could be used to build a detailed floorplan of the ferry. The men were extremely interested in the functioning of the boats and they repeated this behavior on several boats over several days.

This incident, like the "flying imams" is an attempt to both gain information for a possible terrorist attack and an attempt to desensitize the public and law enforcement to suspicious activity my Middle Eastern/Muslim persons.

It is also an attempt to set up a confrontation with government agencies hamstrung with political correctness:

Dozens of Muslims and Arabs have complained to community leaders about the photographs. The fallout has led to a meeting planned today between Muslim- and Arab-American community leaders and law-enforcement officials.

"We need to get some type of apology from them and figure out how to get back to where we were," said Rita Zawaideh, head of the Arab-American Community Coalition.

Notice that the concern of these "Arab-American community leaders" was not that a ferry possibly carrying members of the local Arab-American community would be bombed. All of her attention was focused on getting the FBI to apologize for doing its job and trying to protect the lives of American citizens.

Almost all acts of terrorism carried out in the world today are the acts of Muslims and most of them have been Middle Eastern men. If the Arab community of the Pacific Northwest is so scared of being racially profiled let them remove themselves to a place where they will not stand out so much. A place like Saudi Arabia for example.