this is really effective!

Watch List Delays Reservist's Homecoming
MINNEAPOLIS - A Marine reservist returning home after eight months in Iraq was told he couldn't board a plane to Minneapolis because his name appeared on a watch list as a possible terrorist.

Staff Sgt. Daniel Brown, who was in uniform and returning from the war Tuesday with 26 other Marine military police reservists, was delayed briefly in Los Angeles until the issue was cleared up.

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"A guy goes over and serves his country fighting for eight or nine months, and then we come home and put up with this?" he asked.

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So, has anyone other than authors and soldiers been stopped because of this "watch list"? It appears to be an extremely arbitrary and pretty useless system.