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Article: US terrorist watch list includes more than 755,000 names
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- The Hindustan Times
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- October 25, 2007
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Washington, Oct. 25 -- The US terrorist watch list includes more than 755,000 names on terrorist watch list and it continues to grow, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has said.
The list has grown from 20 entries before the September 11, 2001 attacks to more than 150,000 just a few months later, after the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) was created in December 2003 to keep tabs on terrorist suspects, according to the GAO.
Including known pseudonyms of suspects, the list's 755,000 names as of May 2007 represents, in fact, around 300,000 people, according to TSC estimates.
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