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Monday, May 28, 2012

US terror list harasses innocents, leaves out terrorists: Civil rights group, War on Terror, NewAgeIslam.com

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US terror list harasses innocents, leaves out terrorists: Civil rights group
22 July 2008

The ACLU said it derived that figure from a justice department report on the FBI's Terrorist Screening Centre, which consolidates terrorist watch list information.

The Centre "had over 700,000 names in its database as of April 2007 and the list was growing by 20,000 records per month," says a report by the justice department.

But Leonard Boyle, director of the Centre, said there are not one million names on the list. Boyle also denied that thousands of Americans are detained and inconvenienced daily as their names are on the list.

Roman Catholic nun, Sister Glenn Anne McPhee was on the list - apparently because an Afghan man used McPhee as an alias.

A flight from London with Cat Stevens on board - the singer who converted to Islam and changed his name to Yusuf Islam - was diverted and forced to land in Maine when US officials became aware that Islam, or Stevens, was on board.

http://newageislam.com/us-terror-list-harasses-innocents,-leaves-out-terrorists--civil-rights-group/war-on-terror/d/293


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