Mulling over George Pope to STEVE ASHER 23 Sep 2004

SA> Starting in November, the Transportation Security Administration will
SA> use passenger data from June 2004 from 77 domestic carriers to test
SA> the Secure Flight program, which is designed to check airline
SA> passenger names against a centralized terrorist watch list. The
SA> airlines have 30 days to comment on the order.

 GP> So what happens to the innocent victims of identity theft?  Will
 GP> they, like a hapless Canadian traveller, be sent to Syria to be
 GP> tortured? 

If they are very unlucky. If they are just unlucky, & someone mis-spells
their name, like Yusuf Islam (sp?) aka Cat Stevens, they just get returned 
to where they came from & bundled off the flight. "Have a nice day" :)

Cheers, Steve..

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