Θα μπορούσαν οι ανιχνεύσεις IRIS να σταματήσουν μια νέα εξέγερση του Ιράκ;
Ο πρωθυπουργός Nouri Al-Maliki μπορεί να πραγματοποιήσει τις επαρχιακές εκλογές που δίνουν σε Sunnis έναν μεγαλύτερο πάσσαλο στην πολιτική διαδικασία. And Maliki can hope that the “high degree of ‘conflict exhaustion’ among Sunnis” stays high.
The Iraqi government has one other card to play, says Kahl, just back from the Middle East. Over the years, the American military in Iraq has assembled a series of biometric databases; hundreds of thousands of Iraqis’ fingerprints and irises are stored inside. In Fallujah and other Sunni-dominated cities, the only way to get in or out is within a U.S.-issued badge, complete with this biometric info; that restricts potential insurgents’ freedom of movement. The Sons of Iraq have also been iris- and fingerprint-scanned; that makes them easier to identify, if they’re caught rejoining the insurgent team. Finally, the databases — partially built on the backs on Saddam’s crminal records — “provides a useful enemies list to the Government of Iraq, if they chose to use it,” Kahl says. That echoes what U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel John Velliquette told DANGER ROOM last year, when he said that the biometric info becomes “a hit list if it gets in the wrong hands.” Or the right ones.
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