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New rules would govern fertilizer ingredient that can be used in bombsupdated: Tue Aug 02 2011 13:11:00

The Obama administration is proposing rules to govern the sale and transfer of ammonium nitrate, a potentially explosive substance that was used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and reportedly was a component in the July bomb attack on a government building in Oslo, Norway.

People with suspected terror ties on stricter no-fly list since 2010updated: Mon Apr 11 2011 16:40:00

U.S. authorities have kept about 350 people with "suspected ties to terrorism" off U.S.-bound planes since January 2010, officials said Monday.

Air terror suspect was in database, not watch listupdated: Mon Dec 28 2009 18:29:00

It's called the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, and weeks before authorities say he got on a plane with a bomb, Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab was in it.

Terrorist watch lists shorter than previously reportedupdated: Wed Oct 22 2008 22:26:00

The federal government's terrorist watch lists are far shorter than have been reported, the secretary of homeland security said Wednesday.

'No-fly' list revealedupdated: Wed Oct 22 2008 22:26:00

Homeland Security says "no-fly" list numbers are smaller than previously reported. Jeanne Meserve reports.

No-fly list under attackupdated: Wed Jul 16 2008 19:44:00

The TSA is criticized for having more than one million names on its terror watch list. CNN's Drew Griffin reports.

Report: U.S. terror 'watch list' may be getting too longupdated: Thu Oct 25 2007 00:15:00

A new government report says there are now more than three quarters of a million names on the U.S. government's terrorist "watch list," raising concerns the list may be becoming too large.

With 300,000 names on list, terrorist center always on alert updated: Tue Sep 25 2007 12:40:00

About a hundred times a day, from anywhere in the world, a phone call comes in that sounds something like this: I think I've got a terrorist suspect here, can you check it out?

The 'brain' of the war on terrorupdated: Tue Sep 25 2007 12:40:00

CNN's Kelli Arena gets exclusive access inside the FBI's terrorist screening center.

Justice Department report tells of flaws in terrorist watch listupdated: Thu Sep 06 2007 23:43:00

Twenty known or suspected terrorists were not correctly listed on the government's consolidated watch list, preventing their records from being available to the nation's front-line screening agents, according to a U.S. Justice Department report.

Time.com: Report: IRS Poor At Fighting Terrorismupdated: Tue May 29 2007 12:45:00

The IRS does a poor job in identifying tax-exempt groups that may have links to terrorists, according to a report released Friday

Terror database lists 200,000 namesupdated: Tue Mar 14 2006 15:03:00

The Terrorist Screening Center marked its second anniversary as keeper of the government's terrorist watch list Tuesday by disclosing it had received about 6,000 "positive hits" of known or suspected terrorists.

Flights axed 'due to mistaken IDs'updated: Fri Jan 02 2004 10:24:00

Mistaken identities led to last week's cancellation of three Air France flights from Paris to Los Angeles, with one of the suspicious names belonging to a child, the Wall Street Journal reports.

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