LAS Provides Critical Information to Assist Law Enforcement with Search For FBI Suspect.Business Editors/Assignment Desks Topical News: War On Terrorism Terrorist acts and the threat of Terrorism have occupied the various law enforcement agencies in the U.S. government for many years. The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, as amended by the usa patriot act HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 21, 2003 In the interest of public safety, Herndon, Va.-based Language Analysis Systems (LAS), the world's leading provider of name recognition software, today posted to its Web site the most common name variations for the individual sought by the FBI in the March 20, 2003, FBI worldwide alert. The most common name variations for Adnan G. El Shukrijumah and his aliases can be found at www.las-inc.com/fbialert. On Thursday, the FBI (www.FBI.gov) announced that Adnan G. El Shukrijumah is possibly involved with al Qaeda terrorist activities and may pose a serious threat to U.S. citizens and interests worldwide. The FBI requested help from law enforcement and the public to locate El Shukrijumah. In response to this request, LAS is making public the most common linguistic name variations that may be in use by El Shukrijumah, including variations of the aliases identified by the FBI. It is widely known that individuals attempting to escape detection may use linguist lin·guist n. 1. A person who speaks several languages fluently. 2. A specialist in linguistics. [Latin lingua, language; see variations of their name to confuse the Anglo-centric name search algorithms In computer science, a search algorithm, broadly speaking, is an algorithm that takes a problem as input and returns a solution to the problem, usually after evaluating a number of possible solutions. used by most law enforcement and commercial organizations. Regarding the aliases provided by the FBI, LAS Arabic name Old Arabic names are based on a long naming system: most Arabs do not simply have first/middle/last names, but a full chain of names. This system is in use throughout the Arab world. experts believe that these names may be nicknames or noms de guerre (battle names). The aliases provided are "Abu Arif" and "Ja'far Al-Tayar." Abu Arif may mean either father of Arif or a nickname (1) An alternate name used to identify yourself in a chat room. (2) A shortcut for identifying a recipient in an e-mail address book. for a knowledgeable person. The name Tayar may be a nickname for pilot, making a potential translation of the second alias "Ja'far the pilot." Providing the variations and aliases will allow police departments, banks, and other financial and business institutions to more effectively check their databases, making apprehension The seizure and arrest of a person who is suspected of having committed a crime. A reasonable belief of the possibility of imminent injury or death at the hands of another that justifies a person acting in Self-Defense against the potential attack. that much more likely. Financial institutions may want to amplify their searches of the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC OFAC Office of Foreign Assets Control (US Treasury) OFAC Ontario Farm Animal Council (Canada) OFAC Olmsted Falls Airport Committee OFAC Organic Fertilizer Association of California ) Watch List with some or all of these names. The OFAC list consists of individuals, organizations, and companies - some who are terrorists - that U.S. concerns are not permitted to do business with. Failure to comply with the OFAC Watch List requirements puts financial institutions at risk of non-compliance and can result in large fines. In addition, police departments may want to check their databases to see if they have had recent contact with individuals using any of these names. The full list of approximately 500 variations - in frequency of occurrence order - generated from LAS's repository of almost one billion names will be provided at no charge, upon request, to organizations with a demonstrated need. It is quite common for names that originate in Verb 1. originate in - come from stem - grow out of, have roots in, originate in; "The increase in the national debt stems from the last war" another script, such as Arabic, to have multiple valid spellings in the Roman character set. LAS advanced technology, based on more than 18 years of research and development, can automatically generate multiple valid spellings for a single name, along with the relative frequency of occurrence for the name. This capability, proven useful in tracking the 9/11 terrorists to their Florida connections, allows government and commercial investigators to quickly expand their search for suspects. LAS also provides technology that integrates with applications to automatically search for linguistic variations, phonetic pho·net·ic adj. 1. Of or relating to phonetics. 2. Representing the sounds of speech with a set of distinct symbols, each designating a single sound. variations, and garbled names so that individuals do not need to identify variations of names of interest. If you would like to speak with Dr. John C. Hermansen, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and Founder of LAS, to learn more about how the government and business communities are using its multi-cultural name recognition tools, please contact Michelle Damico at 847-632-0040, ext. 234, or by email at michelle.damico@techimage.com. About Language Analysis Systems LAS has almost two decades of experience in making products that solve the complex problem of understanding unfamiliar names by combining computational linguistics computational linguistics (CL) Use of digital computers in linguistics research. The simplest examples are the use of computers to scan text and produce such aids as word lists, frequency counts, and concordances. with advanced software engineering. LAS software is used by Law Enforcement, U.S. Intelligence and Border Inspection agencies as well as commercial corporations. The government contracts that LAS has been awarded over the years have been "sole-source justified," meaning that no other company has the expertise to bid on these advanced technology contracts. |
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