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Post-9/11 Dragnet Turns Up Surprises
Biometrics Link Foreign Detainees To Arrests in U.S.

FBI agent Paul Shannon led a team sent to Afghanistan in 2001 to fingerprint and interview foreign fighters for a database of known or suspected terrorists. Here, he takes Saddam Hussein's prints after his capture in 2003.
FBI agent Paul Shannon led a team sent to Afghanistan in 2001 to fingerprint and interview foreign fighters for a database of known or suspected terrorists. Here, he takes Saddam Hussein's prints after his capture in 2003.

By Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 6, 2008; Page A01

In the six-and-a-half years that the U.S. government has been fingerprinting insurgents, detainees and ordinary people in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa, hundreds have turned out to share an unexpected background, FBI and military officials said. They have criminal arrest records in the United States.

There was the suspected militant fleeing Somalia who had been arrested on a drug charge in New Jersey. And the man stopped at a checkpoint in Tikrit who claimed to be a dirt farmer but had 11 felony charges in the United States, including assault with a deadly weapon

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Assuming this is a good sample, the story belies a significant missed paradigm.
If one percent had USA criminal records, the rate for this group who are visitors to the USA: without criminal records would be higher.

Of course as this is a Criminal records check, we can't validate my hypothesis with this study.

A very important question the study leaves un answered is do these stats hold for insurgent groups alone, with out the civilian population included in the sample?

The paradigm intel suggests a staggering volume of culturalized insurgents available for cells.

Gerald

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