So says the FBI.
And these terrorists are captured in Africa, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Iraq, etc. The crimes they committed in the U.S. range from drunken driving, passing bad checks, and traffic violations to immigration law violations, drug trafficking, and assault with a deadly weapon.
How do the feds know this? Fingerprinting.
The fingerprinting of detainees overseas began as ad-hoc FBI and U.S. military efforts shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. It has since grown into a government-wide push to build the world’s largest database of known or suspected terrorist fingerprints. The effort is being boosted by a presidential directive signed June 5, which gave the U.S. attorney general and other cabinet officials 90 days to come up with a plan to expand the use of biometrics by, among other things, recommending categories of people to be screened beyond “known or suspected” terrorists.
Fingerprints are being beamed in via satellite from places as far-flung as the jungles of Zamboanga in the southern Philippines; Bogota, Colombia; Iraq; and Afghanistan. Other allies, such as Sweden, have contributed prints. The database can be queried by U.S. government agencies and by other countries through Interpol, the international police agency.
This data base can be used to track individuals, or groups of individuals all over the globe to link them together in a pattern of criminal behavior. Read the rest of this entry »
BTW, my previous post is awaiting moderation for an edit. I was in brass knuckle mode whe I wrote it so keep that in...
