posted on January 13, 2003 02:28:30 PM new
The next time someone whines about the indignity of fingerprinting visitors to the U.S. from Islamic countries, remember this story from Time magazine:
Soon after the U.S. military went into Afghanistan, the FBI, the CIA and military intelligence began collecting fingerprints of al-Qaeda operatives and members of other international terrorist groups. They scoured caves and safe houses in Afghanistan and Pakistan and sought records from police and security services worldwide. Thousands of prints were digitized and entered into a classified database, along with names, aliases, mug shots, addresses, associates, descriptions of scars and, occasionally, DNA data.
Now, U.S. authorities say, this ambitious project is paying off. In the past three months, federal law-enforcement officials tell Time, two men attempting to enter the U.S. were red-flagged when matches of their fingerprints and other information were found in the terrorist database.
posted on January 13, 2003 03:08:23 PM new
I don't have a problem with fingerprinting visitors from Islamic countries. I do have a problem with only fingerprinting visitors from those countries.
We had problems with visitors disappearing within our midst *long* before 9-11, and such disappearing persons came from a wide number of countries & practiced a wide variety of religions. ALL visitors should be kept track of.
edited to correct a tenses problem I had while posting...
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there --Clare Booth Luce
[ edited by bunnicula on Jan 13, 2003 07:54 PM ]
posted on January 13, 2003 03:41:21 PM new
>I don't have a problem with fingerprinting visitors from Islamic countries. I do have a problem with only fingerprinting visitors from that country.
posted on January 14, 2003 06:31:31 AM new
Heck with that! Go one step further, make wear an ankle bracelet with tracking...
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