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Biometric Urban Control: Time Magazine, Sept 15th, 2007

Posted Sep 11, 2007

Biometric Urban Control

Further Digging

U.S. interrogators in Iraq are building a digital catalog of prisoners of war and loyalists of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, scanning and saving their fingerprints and other body characteristics in databases.

The data banks, controlled by the FBI, CIA, Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies, are being used to investigate suspicious foreigners entering the United States, as well as to trace suspects in future terrorist attacks.

"We do this passive collection when we go in, because these guys will scatter over time," said Thomas Barnett, a professor at the Naval War College who advises the Office of the Secretary of Defense. "When you have the opportunity to tag them, you tag them before you release them to the wild."

"Although they might not be a terrorist now, they might have some anti-American feeling," she said. "They might be a terrorist in the future."

from this Information Week article: "US Military Compiles Database on Iraqi Fighters"