National Terrorism List Contains 325,000 Names, Including U.S. Citizens
The National Counterterrorism Center maintains a central repository of 325,000 names of international terrorism suspects or people who allegedly aid them, a number that has more than quadrupled since the fall of 2003, according to counterterrorism officials. The list kept by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) -- created in 2004 to be the primary U.S. terrorism intelligence agency -- contains a far greater number of international terrorism suspects and associated names in a single government database than has previously been disclosed. U.S. citizens make up "only a very, very small fraction" of that number, said an administration official.
325,000 Names on Terrorism List, Washington Post, February 15, 2006.
