[link|http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/14320895.htm|http://www.twincitie...ties/14320895.htm]

Terror watch list trips up Marines' homecoming

"Marine Staff Sgt. Daniel Brown has just spent the past eight months serving his country in Iraq, only to return to the United States and find out his country had placed him on a watch list as a possible terrorist.

A ceremony was waiting Tuesday at home in the Twin Cities for Brown and 26 other Marine military police reservists returning from the war. There were eager families and bagpipes.

But Northwest Airlines wouldn't let him on the plane in Los Angeles. His name had been flagged on the federal list."

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OF course, the Bard:

"Who steals my purse steals trash. 'Twas mine, 'twas his and has been slave to thousands. But he would filches from me my good name takes that which not enriches him, and makes me poor indeed."

On a similar note, I read recently:

[link|http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/04/nobuy_list.html|http://www.schneier....4/nobuy_list.html]

"You've all heard of the "No Fly List." Did you know that there's a "No-Buy List" as well?

The so-called "Bad Guy List" is hardly a secret. The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control maintains its "Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List" to be easily accessible on its public Web site.
Wanna see it? Sure you do. Just key OFAC into your Web browser, and you'll find the 224-page document of the names of individuals, organizations, corporations and Web sites the feds suspect of terrorist or criminal activities and associations."


What's in a name, indeed.