Tuohey

It was, after all, this kind of fear of being branded discriminatory that led a Portland airline agent to clear two 9/11 bombers -- including Mohammed Atta -- through to their fateful destination in Boston: Four years after the attacks, former US Airlines employee Michael Tuohey said he was still haunted by guilt that he did not act on his suspicions.

Danielle Crittenden: Confessions of a Terrorist Profiler Danielle Crittenden 2010

It was, after all, this kind of fear of being branded discriminatory that led a Portland airline agent to clear two 9/11 bombers -- including Mohammed Atta -- through to their fateful destination in Boston: Four years after the attacks, former US Airlines employee Michael Tuohey said he was still haunted by guilt that he did not act on his suspicions.

Danielle Crittenden: Confessions of a Terrorist Profiler Danielle Crittenden 2010

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.

Danielle Crittenden: Confessions of a Terrorist Profiler Danielle Crittenden 2010

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.

Danielle Crittenden: Confessions of a Terrorist Profiler Danielle Crittenden 2010

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.

Danielle Crittenden: Confessions of a Terrorist Profiler Danielle Crittenden 2010

It was, after all, this kind of fear of being branded discriminatory that led a Portland airline agent to clear two 9/11 bombers -- including Mohammed Atta -- through to their fateful destination in Boston: Four years after the attacks, former US Airlines employee Michael Tuohey said he was still haunted by guilt that he did not act on his suspicions.

Danielle Crittenden: Confessions of a Terrorist Profiler Danielle Crittenden 2010

[Portland Press Herald, 3/6/2005] Tuohey thinks the pair seems unusual.

The 9/11 Thoughts 2008

And with that, Tuohey handed them their boarding passes.

Michael Smerconish: Profiling: Street Smarts by Any Other Name 2008

"It was just the look on the one man's face, his eyes," Tuohey told me.

Michael Smerconish: Profiling: Street Smarts by Any Other Name 2008

Tuohey will later recount, “I thought they looked like two Arab terrorists but then I berated myself for the stereotype and did nothing.”

The 9/11 Thoughts 2008