SEE SOMETHING, say nothing:

A man who has been working in the area said he noticed a half-dozen Middle Eastern men in the area in recent weeks, but decided not to report anything since he did not wish to racially profile those people.

“We sat around lunch thinking, ‘What war they doing around the neighborhood?’” he said. “We’d see them leave where they’re raiding the apartment.”

He may not have been the only neighbor who engaged in what, on a previous occasion, was described as giving oneself a “mental slap”:

Portland airport in Maine at five in the morning on a Tuesday in September [2001], as Mohammed Atta checks in for his flight:

Atta’s demeanor and the pair’s first-class, one-way tickets to Los Angeles made [US Airways ticket agent Michael] Tuohey think twice about them.

“I said to myself, ‘If this guy doesn’t look like an Arab terrorist, then nothing does.’ Then I gave myself a mental slap, because in this day and age, it’s not nice to say things like this,” Tuohey told the Maine Sunday Telegram. “You’ve checked in hundreds of Arabs and Hindus and Sikhs, and you’ve never done that. I felt kind of embarrassed.”

(Worse yet, at that time the “mental slap” was dictated by federal policy. See Steve Sailer’s post, How George W. Bush’s War on Airport Profiling of Arabs Contributed to 9/11.)