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...Holocaust-deniers and its President, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, warned that Israel will wind up like the Soviet Union in the scrap heap of history, a European Union Court ruled that a fiercely dedicated armed group that opposes his regime had been unfairly placed on the E.U.'s official list of terrorist organizations. The Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) is also on the U.S. State Department list of terrorist organizations, although much to Tehran's chagrin, the U.S. did not hand over the group's fighters when it took control of their main base in Iraq after the fall of Saddam...
...that the E.U. is about to unleash the MEK on the mullahs? Hardly. The ruling of the Court of the First Instance, the second-highest court overseeing the laws of the European Union, was largely procedural. It found that when the E.U. put the MEK on its list of terrorist organizations in 2002, it should have informed the organization about the basis for that action. The court acknowledged that the European Union is not obliged to inform a possible terrorist organization before its assets are frozen - "It must be able to benefit from a surprise effect," stated the court...
...Department of Homeland Security's Automated Targeting System has become a key part of the nation's air security system. Rather than just checking a list of passenger names for those who might be suspected of terrorist activities, it applies a "risk assessment" to every airline passenger entering the U.S. by using more than two dozen criteria, including how the airline ticket was bought, contact phone numbers provided, and frequent flier information. ATS even wants to know your seat preference. The ATS data is fed to the National Targeting Center, a multi-agency center that crunches the data against criminal...
...According to DHS, ATS was the primary means used to bar 565,417 people from entering the U.S last year; 493 of them were found to be inadmissible under "suspicion of terrorist or security grounds." And thousands were turned back because DHS couldn't quite be sure who they were. In fiscal year 2005, more than 84,000 individuals were apprehended at the ports of entry trying to cross the border with fraudulent claims of citizenship or documents. Unlike other parts of the nation's air security system, the ATS program is run not by the Transportation Security Administration...
...cases, for example, the U.S. can obtain the meal preferences of a passenger. Chertoff points out that such cases require special high-level approval from both the U.S. and international law enforcement authorities. The point, says Chertoff, is to use all the tools we have to act before the terrorist do. "If we sit back and just rely on a list of names, we will likely miss something. And we do not want to be in that position ever again...