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YET AGAIN -- A Good Name Dragged Down / Consumers Get Tangled In Terrorist Watchlist
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:00:39 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com> Date: March 20, 2008 12:19:37 AM EDT To: undisclosed-recipient:;Subject: A Good Name Dragged Down / Consumers Get Tangled In Terrorist Watchlist
A Good Name Dragged Down Consumers Get Tangled In Terrorist Watchlist By Ellen Nakashima Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, March 19, 2008; D01 One man went into a Glen Burnie, Md., Toyota dealership to buy a car, only to be told that a name check revealed he was on a U.S. Treasury Department watchlist of suspected terrorists and drug dealers. He had to be "checked for tattoos," he said, to make sure he wasn't the suspect. An 18-year-old found he could not open an account to accept credit card payments for his fledgling technology consulting business because his name was similar to that of a Libyan official on the watchlist. A former U.S. Navy officer who served in the Persian Gulf and whose father was killed in the Korean War when he was a child, found himself locked out of his PayPal account because his name was similar to one on the watchlist. ... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/18/AR2008031802971.html ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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