Identity Dominance: The U.S. Military’s Biometric War in Afghanistan | Public Intelligence http://publicintelligence.net/identity-dominance/[5/29/2014 11:29:30 AM] About Contact Support Us FEATURED Identity Dominance: The U.S. Military’s Biometric War in Afghanistan April 21, 2014 For years the U.S. military has been waging a biometric war in Afghanistan, working to unravel the insurgent networks operating throughout the country by collecting the personal identifiers of large portions of the population. A restricted U.S. Army guide on the use of biometrics in Afghanistan obtained by Public Intelligence provides an inside look at this ongoing battle to identify the Afghan people. Mohammad Zahid was not the target of a joint military operation that came through his village in Khost Province in late February 2012. However, that day the twenty-two year old man who claimed to be a student was arrested and eventually convicted in an Afghan court because his