U.S. is building database on Iraqis

Source: USATODAY


BAGHDAD — The U.S. military is taking fingerprints and eye scans from thousands of Iraqi men and building an unprecedented database that helps track suspected militants.

U.S. troops are stopping Iraqis at checkpoints, workplaces and sites where attacks have recently occurred, and inputting their personal data using handheld scanners or specially equipped laptops. In several neighborhoods in and around Baghdad, troops have gone door to door collecting data.

The rapidly expanding program has raised privacy concerns at the Pentagon, although it has met little resistance from Iraqis. U.S. commanders say the data help to keep suspected militants out of neighborhoods and to identify suspects in attacks against U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians. Iraq has no other reliable ID system.

"It helps enormously," Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said in an interview. "It enables us to identify individuals connected with various activities."

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2007-07-12-iraq-database_N.htm

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Good luck on that one

for extreme hacking, that would seem to be it.

Jeez.

So don't try anything funny, like asking us to leave! 'Cause BIG BROTHER is watching!

"Betrayus is a stickler for that."

Shades of Animal Farm. Or "Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss."

We go into a country to liberate them from an authoratrian, all-knowing police state, and then replace it with...an authoratarian, all-knowing police state. Lovely.

The authoritarian, all-knowing police state we liberated them from didn't have any terrorists, because their dictator was such an asshole he would have them tracked down and killed.

The authoritarian, all-knowing police state we replaced that one with needs terrorists to ensure its continued existence, because our dictator is such an asshole his own party would impeach him if he wasn't "keeping the country safe."

And we are going to mine the heck out of them to find out all about you! Be afraid! Be VERY afraid!
:rofl::rofl:

Sure. The Repukes would never do anything like that here at home.

:sarcasm:

how many Iraqis they've killed. :mad:

bet on it.