-------- Original Message -------- Subject: 325,000 Names on Terrorism List Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:25:33 -0500 From: Daz <articles.daz@gmail.com> To: David Farber <dave@farber.net> 325,000 Names on Terrorism List Rights Groups Say Database May Include Innocent People By Walter Pincus and Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, February 15, 2006; Page A01 The National Counterterrorism Center maintains a central repository of 325,000 names of international terrorism suspects or people who allegedly aid them, a number that has more than quadrupled since the fall of 2003, according to counterterrorism officials. The list kept by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) -- created in 2004 to be the primary U.S. terrorism intelligence agency -- contains a far greater number of international terrorism suspects and associated names in a single government database than has previously been disclosed. Because the same person may appear under different spellings or aliases, the true number of people is estimated to be more than 200,000, according to NCTC officials. <...snip...> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/14/AR2006021402 125.html?referrer=email&referrer=email> ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as eugen@leitl.org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]