November 30, 2001

German Police Troll University Data for Terrorism Clues; Professors in South Korea Form First Union

German police are using data from the nation's universities as a resource for computer-aided profiling to root out suspected terrorists.

Several of the people believed to have carried out the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington, including the suspected leader, Mohammed Atta, had spent time at German universities.

The technique, known as rasterfahndung or grid investigation, was developed in the 1960s to find domestic terrorists living under assumed identities. Using

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