Quote Originally Posted by davidbfpo View Post
  • Assembling a profile continues to elude academics and practioners.
  • After London and Glasgow attacks by in the 'Doctors Plot' any profile had to consider medical doctors.
The assumption that you can assemble a profile would have to reside in the idea that profiles were indicative or political/religious beliefs. How do you find out if someone is a secret communist? Profiles are more a search tool, than indicative of any form of prediction. Profiles cannot tell you who is a terrorist and who is not. Profiles just fine tune the search.

To quote a training manual I saw once, "A profile without a subject is like key without a door."