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Posted by Monty Solomon on March 20, 2008, 1:09 am
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A Good Name Dragged Down
Consumers Get Tangled In Terrorist Watchlist
By Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 19, 2008; D01
One man went into a Glen Burnie, Md., Toyota dealership to buy a car,
only to be told that a name check revealed he was on a U.S. Treasury
Department watchlist of suspected terrorists and drug dealers. He had
to be "checked for tattoos," he said, to make sure he wasn't the
suspect.
An 18-year-old found he could not open an account to accept credit
card payments for his fledgling technology consulting business
because his name was similar to that of a Libyan official on the
watchlist.
A former U.S. Navy officer who served in the Persian Gulf and whose
father was killed in the Korean War when he was a child, found
himself locked out of his PayPal account because his name was similar
to one on the watchlist.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/18/AR2008031802971.html
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