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It could have been flagged by another country's system. Or there are names not on that specific list.

duskwuff 11y ago
Almost certainly the US Treasury's Specially Designated Nationals list: http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/SDN-List/ http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/SDN-List/ Sure enough, searching the list for "Hasan Ali" gives seven hits.
- semi-extrinsic 11y ago
  Specially Designated Nationals. Wow. I wonder whether the people who come up with these terms have read 1984 and it's a form of in-joke, or if they're actually serious.
  - sheensleeves 11y ago
    "More time passed and we got to Korea, 1950. By that time, Madison Avenue had learned well how to manipulate the language, and the same condition became _operational exhaustion_. It had been stretched out to eight syllables. It took longer to say, so the impact was reduced, and the humanity was completely squeezed out of the term. It was now absolutely sterile: operational exhaustion. It sounded like something that might happen to your car." - George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops (2004)
- mike_hearn 11y ago
  The SDN and other blacklists are a little discussed travesty of civil rights. There is no process for getting off the list. Names just ..... appear there. No evidence or other legal case is required. Just a bureaucrat deciding they don't like you. The US Constitution explicitly forbids blacklisting of individuals via law for this sort of reason (laws of attainder). Unfortunately such laws are rarely struck down because blacklisted individuals are usually foreign, and thus don't have much access to the US legal system or interest in taking things to the Supreme Court. Also the term "law of attainder" or "bill of attainder" usually means a law that explicitly enumerates the people it's meant to effect, such as the Magnitsky Bill. Laws that create blacklists maintained by the executive branch isn't something the framers appear to have anticipated, though their intention is quite obvious.

Almost certainly the US Treasury's Specially Designated Nationals list: http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/SDN-List/ http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/SDN-List/ Sure enough, searching the list for "Hasan Ali" gives seven hits.

semi-extrinsic 11y ago
Specially Designated Nationals. Wow. I wonder whether the people who come up with these terms have read 1984 and it's a form of in-joke, or if they're actually serious.
- sheensleeves 11y ago
  "More time passed and we got to Korea, 1950. By that time, Madison Avenue had learned well how to manipulate the language, and the same condition became _operational exhaustion_. It had been stretched out to eight syllables. It took longer to say, so the impact was reduced, and the humanity was completely squeezed out of the term. It was now absolutely sterile: operational exhaustion. It sounded like something that might happen to your car." - George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops (2004)
mike_hearn 11y ago
The SDN and other blacklists are a little discussed travesty of civil rights. There is no process for getting off the list. Names just ..... appear there. No evidence or other legal case is required. Just a bureaucrat deciding they don't like you. The US Constitution explicitly forbids blacklisting of individuals via law for this sort of reason (laws of attainder). Unfortunately such laws are rarely struck down because blacklisted individuals are usually foreign, and thus don't have much access to the US legal system or interest in taking things to the Supreme Court. Also the term "law of attainder" or "bill of attainder" usually means a law that explicitly enumerates the people it's meant to effect, such as the Magnitsky Bill. Laws that create blacklists maintained by the executive branch isn't something the framers appear to have anticipated, though their intention is quite obvious.