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Article: Is this the face of a TERRORIST? A St. Paul mom was told that her 2-year-old son, Jack, couldn't fly because he was on a terror watch list. Sen. Amy Klobuchar wants to keep that from happening to other innocent travelers.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- August 5, 2008
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Byline: EMILY KAISER; STAFF WRITER
WASHINGTON John Anderson's family was taking a trip to Disney World in 2004 when they were stopped by security at Minneapolis-St. Paul International airport. The airlines thought John, who goes by Jack, was on a terror watch list. Agents were dumbfounded when they looked over the counter to see the suspected terrorist -- a 2-year-old St. Paul toddler dozing in his stroller with a pacifier hanging from his mouth. Two years later, the family was stopped by airport security again, owing to Jack's common name. The Andersons have since given up flying, waiting for federal authorities to fix a database that has ensnared more than 30,000 ...
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