Don't Make Privacy the Next Victim of Terror
The clamor for national ID cards ignores a simple fact: Such a system would have done nothing to foil the Sept. 11 attacks
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By Jane Black
Open the San Diego White Pages, turn to the A's, and you'll find a listing for Nawaq Alhamzi. Everything you wanted to know about his whereabouts were right there in black and white: 6401 Mount Ada Road, San Diego, Calif. Alhamzi was one of the hijackers on American Airlines Flight 77 that killed all 68 passengers on board and 125 people on the ground when it crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11.