Firstly you have the issue that many terrorists are going by a nom de guerre rather than their legal or birth name.
Then, of course, your terrorists will have common names. How many Mohammeds are you gonna list?
Lastly is transliteration. Your no-fly list is in Latin characters. But your terrorists have Arabic and Persian and Hindi and Cyrillic names. So what do you do. Transliteration is an inexact science, and there are often many branching methods of doing it.
So no-fly lists are based on fuzzy matching common pseudonyms. It's a farce, really it is.
Firstly you have the issue that many terrorists are going by a nom de guerre rather than their legal or birth name.
Then, of course, your terrorists will have common names. How many Mohammeds are you gonna list?
Lastly is transliteration. Your no-fly list is in Latin characters. But your terrorists have Arabic and Persian and Hindi and Cyrillic names. So what do you do. Transliteration is an inexact science, and there are often many branching methods of doing it.
So no-fly lists are based on fuzzy matching common pseudonyms. It's a farce, really it is.