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http://www.dailyitem.com/news/local_news/removal-from-no-fly-list-took-years-federal-judge/article_94e98fc1-3beb-5cae-9539-aec6f9d0b59c.htmlby: Kery Murakami CNHI Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — In 2005, Rahinah Ibrahim, a Malaysian architecture professor and doctoral candidate at Stanford University, went to San Francisco International Airport where she was told that she couldn't board an airplane.
Her name was on a government no-fly list of suspected terrorists.
Eight years of court battles later, a federal judge agreed that Ibrahim didn't belong on the list.
The FBI ultimately acknowledged that she ended up on there because an agent investigating her had checked the wrong box on a form, said her attorney, Elizabeth Pipkin.
Chillingly, the U.S. Justice Department never disclosed why Ibrahim was being investigated in the first place.
To Pipkin, what happened to Ibrahim is a cautionary tale of the problems with controversial terrorist watch lists, which this week are a focus of Congress' struggle to find a way to prevent suspected terrorists from buying guns.
The debate in Washington comes in reaction to the death of 49 people in a shooting rampage at an Orlando gay nightclub.
Democrats and Republicans say they agree that suspected terrorists should not be able to buy guns — just as they are barred from flying in airplanes.
The parties disagree, however, over balancing national security with individual gun rights.
Those divisions prevented competing Democratic and Republican bills, relying on terrorist watch lists, from clearing the Senate on Monday.
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