Auto theft database is left to languish
Tool against terror lost to poor compliance
WASHINGTON -- Fifteen years after states were directed to share motor vehicle information in a national database, only nine states have done so, making it nearly impossible to identify hundreds of thousands of stolen vehicles -- including a small but steady number that end up as car bombs in Iraq. (Full article: 1052 words)
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