US watchlist names 1 million suspected terrorists

Argentina News.Net
Monday 14th July, 2008

The US has produced a watch list of suspected and known terrorists, containing the names of more than one million people.

The American Civil Liberties Union has drawn attention to the figures and says the list is growing by an average of over 20,000 records per month.

Among those on the watchlist are former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein who was hanged in 2005, decorated war veterans, and US senator Ted Kennedy.

Nobel Peace Prize winner and former South African president Nelson Mandela was also on the list until an act of Congress removed his name.

The ACLU has revealed the only way to get off the list is if the procedure is approved by Congress.

The Transportation Security Administration has flatly denied the one million names figure

The TSA says it has about 450,000 people on the list.

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