Monday, December 30

Good timing - You have to wonder if the Times had this article waiting in the can. The day after the FBI issues another New Year's Eve warning about five possible Arab terrorists, the NYT covers the search for a technological solution to the proliferation of Latinized versions of Arabic names. That's one top of the problem that the men, going by the names Abid Noraiz Ali, Iftikhar Khozmai Ali, Mustafa Khan Owasi, Adil Pervez, and Akbar Jamal, aren't using pseudonyms in the first place.