No Fly List

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No Fly List

Introduction

For entry into the United States, the State Department has established a watch list (including the No Fly List). This includes names of persons who are not citizens of the United States and there are undesirable, with coverage being denied entry into the United States under any circumstances. The inclusion of a person in the Watch List can have various reasons, often there are people who are suspected to criminal activities such as the drugs and are available or set of persons whose names are included for political reasons on the Watch List. Transportation Security Administration announced the reasons and the date of entry and the list itself. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation 19,000 hits resulted in checks in the year 2009. The Terrorist Watch List in 2009 contained about 400,000 names, and the subset of the no-fly list 3,400, including 170 U.S. citizens.

Cases in History

In 1987, the former general of the UN and former Austrian President Kurt Waldheim was in connection with allegations of complicity in Nazi war crimes during the Second World War on the Watch List. This made the whole process in this expression known mainly in Austria.

On 22 September 2004, the authorities refused the British singer Cat Stevens entry into the United States for alleged contacts with Islamic terrorist organizations. Stevens, who calls himself since his conversion to Islam, Yusuf Islam, has always denied such connections.

On 18 April 2009, the U.S. refused an Air France machine on the way to Mexico, the over flight rights, because on board the exile-Colombians Hernando Calvo Ospina was that - after presentation of the Diplomatique Le Monde for research purposes - links to the FARC.

In January 2010, the writer Gabriel Kuhn denied entry. He was planning a book tour in the United States (Marks, 2010).

Discussion

According to the American government Al-Qaeda is almost defeated, but the number of people in or to the United States may fly in the past year more than doubled. The number of known or suspected terrorists is about ten thousand increased to about 21 thousand; according to government data to the Associated Press are provided. But five hundred of them are Americans. The list of names swelled considerably after the failed attempt by the Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to Christmas 2009, a plane from Amsterdam to Detroit to blow. The government applied the criteria for people on the list and then went on to put in its files looking for people who did it. The government does not disclose who is on the list and why they are put on.

The no-fly list has grown greatly in size while the U.S. says many leaders of Al Qaeda to have slain. This is because the authorities think the threat of a terrorist group is considerably broader than those who were responsible for the attacks of September 11, 2001. "Both U.S. intelligence and police communities as foreign services continue to identify people who want to harm us, especially in the U.S. and in particular with ...