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Fingerprints to Help Single Out Terrorists Not on Watch Lists

Pierre Thomas writes on ABC News:

Around the clock, government computers and forensic examiners compare fingerprints the U.S. government and its partners in other countries have collected to the prints of foreign nationals entering the United States.

Military and intelligence officials have been secretly taking thousands of fingerprints from terrorist safe houses, training camps, bomb factories and battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The war zones, the caves in Afghanistan and other places where potential terrorists hide out can be sources of fingerprints, said Robert Mocny, director of the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology Program — also known as US-VISIT.

posted by Fergie @ 7/09/2007 06:47:00 PM