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Bavaria Claims To Have Better Terrorism Database Than USEric Goldhagen writes Report by Christoph Elflein and Tanja Treser.
The hunters with their high-tech equipment are based in a barracks from the last century: plain white walls and gray stone floors everywhere. The windows are secured by iron rods as thick as a finger. Behind a laptop sits Gerald Eder, 45, leading chief inspector of the Bavarian Office of Criminal Investigation (LKA). There is a great number of tiny black dots Daily Life Network Youssef, a 46-year-old Egyptian wearing metal-rimmed glasses and a full gray beard, is regarded by the constitution protection officers as a hate They know in whose car someone is traveling and for what purposes he uses his credit card or cashes a check. They link records of interrogations or information from the authority for foreigners' affairs. Example to Germany "There is nothing comparable on the level of the Federal Government," the head of the investigation department in the Bavarian LKA says. The interior ministers of the laender have only recently discussed a central terrorism database with their colleague, Federal Interior Minister Otto Schily (Social Democratic Party [SPD]). A working group will clear up details before the next interior ministers' conference due on 18 November. Among these are, for example, whether investigators are to have direct access to data or whether the database only supplies keywords, while "It may be a whole year before the system is up and running." Michael Busser of the Hesse Interior Ministry says. It is as yet unclear whether the Federal Government and the laender have to change legislation. Until now, for example, mixing intelligence and police information in one databank is banned. In reality, however, data is exchanged even now, informally. Gerhard Zintl, head of the terrorism search department at the Bavarian LKA, phones his intelligence service colleague every other day. "This helps us in our investigations. The information must not be used in proceedings, though." On top of legal obstacles, there are technical ones. The Federal Interior Ministry prefers to play them down. The claim is that the Federal Office of Criminal Investigation has a well-functioning system. Internally, however, specialists have their doubts about its efficiency: The Bavarians are convinced, that here, too, Easy is better. LKA practitioner Geissdoerfer says: "The Federal Government could make use of |
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