1.  Nonetheless, officials, sensitive to appearances, try to dismiss or minimize the notion that they emphasize an ethnic component in their current profiling system.

2.  Seat belt use also has an ethnic component.

3.  There is also substantial evidence of an ethnic component to profiling in the real world of terminals, where some security officials have given candid answers to passengers.

4.  Abdullah said that Pashtuns, the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan and the main ethnic component of the Taliban, would be welcomed in the new government.

5.  Tajikistan has ties to the anti-Taliban opposition known as the northern alliance, which has a strong ethnic Tajik component, and opposes the Taliban.

6.  Tajikistan is close to the alliance, which has a strong ethnic Tajik component.