Canada, U.S. Need Shared No-Fly List: U.S. Homeland Security

Chertoff's comments came as lawmakers in both the Senate and House of Representatives began hearings into the botched U.S. effort to stop 31-year-old lawyer Andrew Speaker from travelling on a May 24 Czech Airlines flight from Prague to Montreal. Speaker, infected with the extremely dangerous XDR TB, then rented a car from Montreal and drove to the Champlain, N.Y., border crossing, where he was allowed to enter the U.S. by a border guard who ignored a posted traveler alert. Homeland Security had placed Speaker on a U.S. no-fly list only after he was en route to Montreal. "The Canadians could have picked up this individual (before) getting into Canada" if the two countries had a fully integrated system to share information on passengers who pose a health threat, Chertoff said. The U.S. has operated its own no-fly list for years -- one which Canadian airlines have used to flag suspected passengers -- and Ottawa will launch its own list later this month. http://www.canada.com:80/topics/news/national/story.html?id=d759a89a-2a1c-40ff-b15f-87d3cce4ecc9&k=68609

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