is anybody surprised?
Report Says U.N. Embargo Does Little to Halt Al Qaeda (washingtonpost.com) A key weakness in the U.N. sanctions regime, the panel says, is the submission by U.N. members of lists of terrorist suspects who are inadequately identified or whose names are misspelled. For instance, 34 individuals on the list are identified by only a single name. Further confusion has been caused by the varied translations of names from Arabic to English and other languages.
The United States and other governments have also been reluctant to put the names of some suspected terrorists on the U.N. terrorism list in bids to maintain secrecy as they conduct their own investigations. "There have been some reports of known al Qaeda members, not on the list, having been turned back, detained or arrested while in transit," the report says.