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House Approves Whitelist of People Who Aren’t Terrorists
Domestic
Friday, 05 February 2010 19:46
The House of Representatives overwhelmingly adopted legislation this week mandating the creation of a new kind of terrorist watchlist--a database of people who aren’t terrorists, but are routinely flagged at airports anyway. The government maintains a list of about one million names of suspected terrorists that is crosschecked with passenger names ahead of airline boarding. The list has been dogged by sloppy name matches that have ensnared innocent travelers, children, prominent politicians, government officials and all men named David Nelson.
Under the new plan, innocent victims of the terrorist watchlist must prove to the Department of Homeland Security they are not terrorists. They would then get their names put on what the legislation calls the "Comprehensive Cleared List." The legislation is another attempt to assist wrongly flagged passengers and would supersede the troubled Traveler Redress Inquiry Program, which has been criticized for being slow or unresponsive to complaints.
Stocks tumble on worries about jobs, European debt
Domestic
Friday, 05 February 2010 19:35
Stocks continued to tumbled Friday under the growing belief that the global economy is weaker than expected and likely to stop companies from hiring. The Dow Jones industrials traded below 10,000 for the first time in three months. A flood of bad news, including rising debt levels in European nations and an unexpected jump in the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits, had investors pulling money out of stocks. Fears of more disappointing news Friday, when the government issues its January employment report, added to the selloff. The latest slide began in Europe, where markets dropped on concerns about onerous debt levels in Greece, Spain and Portugal. It is becoming harder for those countries to contain rising debts and borrow the money they have been using to try to spend their way out of recession. The euro hit a seven-month low against the dollar on the news.
Obama's 'secret war': U.S. soldiers killed inside Pakistan
International
Friday, 05 February 2010 19:27
The Toronto Globe and Mail says Barack Obama has vastly escalated the war against Islamic extremists, with covert and mostly deniable violence, far beyond the 30,000 additional troops being sent to Afghanistan. In Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, small cadres of special operations soldiers and near-silent unmanned aircraft capable of assassinations in the middle of the night have taken the fight against Islamic extremists to new levels. Air strikes in Pakistan are on pace to reach 150 this year, triple last year's total, while at the same time top U.S. generals have all but banned warplanes from bombing targets in Afghanistan because of the risk of civilian casualties and the resulting fury among ordinary Afghans. The killing Thursday of three American soldiers, the first known deaths of U.S. soldiers in Pakistan's border region, lifted the veil of secrecy that shrouds US covert operations in Pakistan.
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