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Wednesday, 9 January 2013

To hunt down bad guys, AFRICOM will start biometric identification


Africa Command (AFRICOM) and Identity Resolution Team are now cooperating with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to conduct operations in East Africa. Objective: To identify " bad actors "(KST for the known Suspected terrorists , the AIS special interest aliens ) traffickers, criminals, terrorists might try to go to the United States.

Nationals of several countries in East Africa are in the crosshairs: Kenyans, Tanzanians, Sudanese, Ugandans, Ethiopians, Somalis. But the Sahel and West Africa are now areas deemed sensitive.

In August 2012, experts in biometrics AFRICOM went to Pretoria to form ICE officials. A full-scale exercise was followed in September in Kenya, where local staff was also formed.
Biometric data (fingerprints, iris) are then collected transmies U.S. agencies such as the FBI, DoD, DHS ...


More detail in this article .

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