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Article: FBI leaves 20 names off terrorist watch list.
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- Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, OH)
- Article date:
- September 7, 2007
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Sep. 7--WASHINGTON -- Six years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, an FBI unit failed to post the names of at least 20 known or suspected terrorists on a massive watch list that helps border and law enforcement agents keep al-Qaida operatives out of the country, government auditors reported Thursday.
Even a single omission of a suspected terrorist's identity or other inaccuracy on the watch list, which contains 700,000 names, "can have enormous consequences," warned the auditors from the Justice Department's inspector general's office.
The report was issued amid a flurry of renewed worries about terrorism as the 9/11 anniversary ...