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U.S. military building database
of terror suspects’ biometrics
bad guy that we can.
(AP) —The United States is
compiling digital dossiers of
the irises, fingerprints, faces
and voices of terrorism sus
pects and using the information
to track their movements and
screen foreigners trying to
enter the country.
Since January, military and
intelligence operatives have col
lected the identifying data on
prisoners in Afghanistan and at
the U.S. naval base in
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. There
are also plans to extend the col
lection process to Iraq in the
event of a U.S. invasion.
, With this project, the U.S.
government has taken biomet
rics — the measuring of human
features — well beyond its most
common use to date: verifying
people’s identities before giving
them access to computers or
secure areas.
“We’re trying to collect
every biometric on every bad
guy that we can,” said Lt. Col.
Kathy De Bolt, deputy director
of the Army battle lab at Fort
Huachuca, Ariz., where the
Sniper
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federal case,” McNulty said.
It is also unknown whether a federal prosecution
would begin before or after state prosecutions.
During a brief hearing, Muhammad said he
understood the charges against him and another
court appearance was scheduled for Nov. 5.
Outside court, James Wyde, the chief federal
public defender in Maryland, urged the public to
withhold judgment until evidence is heard.
“Mr. Muhammad is a 41-year-old father,”
Wyde said. “He was an American who served
in the Persian Gulf. He was honorably dis
charged. He has never been convicted of
biometric tools being used
were developed.
“Any place we go into —
Iraq or wherever — we’re going
to start building a dossier on
people of interest to intelli
gence. Even if they get released,
we have face and voice clips.
When they come into one of our
checkpoints, we can say, ‘You’re
this bad guy from here.’”
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We're trying to
collect every
biometric on every
— Lt. Col. Kathy De Bolt
deputy director of battle
lab at Fort Huachuca
In biometrics, optical, ther
mal and audio scanners are used
to record a person’s features.
Mathematical algorithms are
then used to reduce that infor
mation to digital data. Some
biometrics are more reliable
than others. For example, the
intricate patterns in the iris, the
colored part of the eye, are con
sidered better identifiers than
even fingerprints.
The U.S. biometric system,
known as the Biometrics
Automated Toolset, or BAT,
includes about 50 laptop com
puters equipped with scanners.
The information on suspects is
stored in a central database at a
U.S. intelligence agency — De
Bolt declined to say which one
— in the Washington area.
An additional 400 laptops
are being prepared for a possi
ble Iraq invasion, said Anthony
lasso, a software engineer at
Northrop Grumman Corp. who
leads the project at Fort
Huachuca.
So far, BAT data has been
shared with both the FBI and
the Immigration and
Naturalization Service to help
check the identities of incom
ing foreigners and of foreigners
arrested inside the United
States, officials said.
another crime at any time, anywhere.”
He said Muhammad is accused “of an incom
prehensible crime, one that had a profound
impact on our community and has destroyed the
lives of the victims and their families.”
“What I’m asking you to do at this point is to
wait for the process to work,” Wyde said.
The affidavit details evidence found in the
1990 Chevrolet Caprice in which Muhammad and
Malvo were sleeping when they were arrested at a
Maryland rest stop last week.
The items include a Bushmaster .223-caliber
rifle police have linked to some of the killings and
a cotton glove stuck in a hole in the trunk.
Authorities believe the sniper shot victims through
the hole while lying in the trunk.
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precautions for themselves as
well as their hunting dogs.
Although Gayle said a dog
has a better chance of being hit
by a car than becoming infected
with the disease, at least four
cases of dogs becoming infected
with West Nile encephalitis have
recently been reported in
Louisiana and Illinois.
Immune systems that are not
working properly can also con
tribute to the infection in dogs,
Gayle said.
“We need to protect dogs like
we would protect ourselves,”
Olson said.
If they are indoor dogs, keep
them indoors as much as possi
ble when mosquitoes are active.
If a dog becomes unstable while
walking, then becomes coma
tose or has a sudden decrease in
appetite, take the dog to the vet
erinarian, Olson said.
He said there is no vaccine
for dogs and he does not recom
mend using a repellent
approved for humans on dogs.
Gayle said owners need to
also take precautions for their
horses by keeping them protect
ed with vaccinations and repel
lent and reduce their exposure to
mosquitoes.
Gayle said he thinks the dis
ease will continue to be a threat
as long as mosquitoes still linger
in the area.
“The number of cases will
decrease as more horses and
humans are exposed and
become immune to it,” he said.
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would be more convenient
students. She said a con«
about West Campus is fo,
feels more like a business p
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enables” will be finished ^
next summer, Abrams said.
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highlighting where nett
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making process.”
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Boston and is one of th
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recently been involved in
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the University of Miami uii
Carnegie Mellon Universit) 1 .
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architectural design firm basd
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