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Article: Terrorist screening center opens, but watch lists still aren't consolidated
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- December 3, 2003
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JOHN J. LUMPKIN, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
12-03-2003
Dateline: WASHINGTON
A center that will consolidate a multitude of terrorist watch lists began operations this week, but it will be months before it will provide security personnel the promised "one-stop shopping" to identify suspected terrorists, Bush administration officials said.
The Terrorist Screening Center in Crystal City, Virginia, began operations Monday night, officials said. It has an initial watch list but has not yet consolidated all the lists from the FBI, CIA, State Department, Homeland Security Department and elsewhere in the U.S. government.
The Bush administration announced the center in September, after the ...