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Article: Airport watch list now reviewed often; Thousands not terror suspects.(PAGE ONE)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- April 11, 2008
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Byline: Audrey Hudson, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Sen. Ted Kennedy can relax.
Terrorists, not so much.
The Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) now will automatically review nearly 500,000 names on its watch list that are frequently matched during airport screenings and other law-enforcement encounters with the general public and remove those names that don't belong to actual suspects.
The Democratic senator from Massachusetts along with several other lawmakers have complained for years that their names were erroneously on the list, causing frequent flyer disruptions at screening stations.
Under new rules called the Terrorist Encounter ...