U.S. to screen aid groups for terror links

[Joanne98]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States plans to screen thousands of people employed by aid organizations that receive funds from the U.S. Agency for International Development looking for possible links to terror organizations, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.

Outlined in a recent Federal Register notice, the program demands for the first time that nongovernmental organizations file detailed information on key personnel who apply for or manage funds distributed by the U.S. aid agency, the Post said.

The Federal Register notice said the program could involve 2,000 people and "will become effective on August 27," the last day that public comments about it are to be submitted, according to the report.

The Post said organizations would be required to submit a broad range of information on key personnel, including name, address, date and place of birth, citizenship, Social Security and passport numbers.



Read more: http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2007-08-23T051121Z_01_N23208777_RTRUKOC_0_US-AID-SCREENING.xml

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They're looking for leftists! IMO

[Maribelle]

1. Leftists?

But aren’t most terrorists considered a threat to the USA of the far-right religious fundamentalists variety?

[Joanne98]

2. Bushco is always finding new ways to defund the left.......

"Aid groups" NGO's... they'll keep the CIA RW ones and accuse the LW ones of terra. It's all about money.

[izzie]

3. Do not like the sounds of this at all

I see it as the 'dirty tricks' way of doing govt. business. Where did Bush get these things from? They are all so un-Am.

[Ian David]

4. Does this mean Pat Robertson will have to close his blood-diamond mines? n/t

[demoleft]

5. DNA classification and register, the next step. n/t