The Federal Government’s Efficiency in the War on Terror?

4-Year-Old Boy on Government ‘No-Fly’ List
By Krisitie Rieken
The Associated Press, January 5, 2006

Houston (AP) — Edward Allen’s reaction to being on the government’s ‘no-fly’ list should have been the tip-off that he is no terrorist. ‘I don’t want to be on the list. I want to fly and see my grandma,’ the 4-year-old boy said, according to his mother. Sijollie Allen and her son had trouble boarding planes last month because
someone with the same name as Edward is on a government terrorist watch list. ‘Is this a joke?’ Allen recalled telling Continental Airlines agents Dec. 21
at Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport. ‘You can tell he’s not a terrorist.’ She said it took several minutes of pleading and a phone call by the ticket agent to get on the plane to New York. Allen, a Jamaican immigrant, said workers at La Guardia Airport were even more hard-nosed before their Dec. 26 flight home. She said a ticket agent told her: ‘You’re lucky that we’re letting you through instead of putting you through the other process.’ The Transportation Security Administration’s ‘no-fly’ list was established immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to prevent people who may have terrorist ties from boarding commercial flights.
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