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To: The Philosopher who wrote (1018)	1/21/2003 6:42:43 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 7936

Al-Qaeda suspects caught by INS with prints from cave By Barbara Ferguson, Arab News Correspondent WASHINGTON, 18 January 2003 — Two Al-Qaeda suspects were arrested this week as they tried to enter the United States. Their fingerprints gave them away. Their digitalized digits matched prints registered by US military officials in Afghanistan taken from documents found in caves there. According to yesterday’s Washington Times, the two men, of Middle East descent, were among 330 aliens arrested at US borders since September. This is all part of a crackdown known as the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, which matches the fingerprints of foreign visitors against a computerized database of known criminals and terrorists. While the US military was destroying dozens of Al-Qaeda and Taleban caves stockpiled with arms and ammunition in Afghanistan, they came across “dossiers with photographs, papers containing the fingerprints of various individuals, computers, tape recordings, instruction manuals and receipts,” says the Times. The American soldiers, supported by law-enforcement authorities, lifted and registered the fingerprints from papers found in caves, hideouts and training camps in the area. These prints were added to the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System for screening incoming foreigners. Fingerprints have also been taken from detainees at the US base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and added to the computer database, to prevent others from using their identities to enter the US, law-enforcement authorities told the Times. Nabbing by fingerprinting appears to be working. “One alien, identified as a Tunisian, was held after his fingerprints identified him as having been convicted of multiple drug-trafficking offenses,” one federal law enforcement official said. Message 18468056