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FY 2007 NADR/Terrorist Interdiction Program funding is requested to support efforts to disrupt the travel of terrorists into Iraq by increasing the number of Iraqi ports of entry equipped with and capable of effectively operating the program's PISCES watchlisting system. In 2005: "Since 2001, twenty nations have been provided this capability" Įxpected 2007: 25 Template:Citation needed Currently deployed

Arrests and detentions have occurred in all five countries where the system has been deployed." In 2003: "is currently being deployed in five countries and is scheduled for deployment in 12 more countries this calendar year. INTERPOL data can then be imported into PISCES to expand the pool of suspects." TIP will also assist the upgrading of INTERPOL's communications system to transmit fingerprints, photos and other graphics on a near-real time basis to and from a participating country’s INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB). in terms of linking it to specific arrests, nothing that I have - nothing that I'm aware of."

Hundreds of travelers have been interdicted in Pakistan on suspicion of using stolen passports.

Within one week of TIP's introduction, a ring of human traffickers were identified at Chiang Mai, Thailand.

TIP provided photos and travel history to Pakistan of three of the four JLondon Metro bombers.

Additionally, TIP assists with immigration business process improvement at ports of entry chosen for PISCES installation.įor FY 2007, funds requested will support significant enhancements to the existing watch listing system software in order to provide a fraudulent document detection capability, a biometrics search capability, and greatly improved name-searching effectiveness.Īlthough PISCES was operational in the months prior to September 11, it apparently failed to detect any of the terrorists involved in the attack.Īccording to the US Department of State, TIP provides all necessary software and hardware (mostly commercial and off-the-shelf, such as cameras and passport scanners), full installation, operator training, and system sustainably. The headquarters is provided with the automated capability to monitor activities at immigration points, evaluate traveler information and conduct real time data analysis.Ĭurrently the PISCES-project falls under " The Terrorist Interdiction Program" (TIP), an ongoing program of the United States Department of State. PISCES workstations installed throughout a country are linked by wide area network to the participating nation’s immigration, police or intelligence headquarters. authorities to be informed of problems with inbound passengers.

It matches passengers inbound for the United States against facial images, fingerprints and biographical information at airports in high-risk countries. The Department of State " used the information to track and apprehend individual terrorists, not for wide-ranging analysis of terrorist travel methods", according to US-government reports. Foreign authorities used the technology to watch list and exchange information with the Department of State about suspected terrorists appearing at their borders. The PISCES-project was initiated by the Department of State, Terrorist Interdiction Program(TIP) in 1997, initially as a system to non-US countries in improving their watch listing capabilities by providing a mainframe computer system to facilitate immigration processing in half a dozen countries.