Privacy concerns are being raised over a U.S. military program that is taking fingerprints and eye scans from thousands of Iraqi men and inputting them into a Pentagon database. USA Today reports Iraqis have been stopped at checkpoints, workplaces and sites of attacks and scanned by U.S. troops. Between 5,000 to 10,000 Baghdad residents have been scanned since March. Iraqis face being barred from their neighborhoods if they refuse the biometric scans.
U.S. Fingerprinting, Scanning Thousands of Iraqis
HeadlineJul 13, 2007