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Identity Dominance: the US Military's Biometric War In Afghanistan

Posted by timothy on from the just-want-to-borrow-your-eyeball dept.

Advocatus Diaboli (1627651) writes "For years the U.S. military has been waging a biometric war in Afghanistan, working to unravel the insurgent networks operating throughout the country by collecting the personal identifiers of large portions of the population. A restricted U.S. Army guide on the use of biometrics in Afghanistan obtained by Public Intelligence provides an inside look at this ongoing battle to identify the Afghan people."

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  1. Does that make Obama a "neocon"? by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 2, Informative

    >> The neoconservatives know better than to let a perfectly good crisis go to waste

    Does that make Obama a "neocon"? (If he really wanted us out of those places, he'd have done it by now.)

    BTW, the "never let a good crisis go to waste" quote is frequently attributed to Obama's former chief of staff and long-time Chicago associate Rahm Emanuel:
    http://www.brainyquote.com/quo...