Tuned-In Terrorists

(Fox News) - U.S. officials have found that many militants captured in Iraq and Afghanistan know a lot more about the U.S. than one would suspect.

The Washington Post reports the FBI and the U.S. military began a joint fingerprinting effort after 9/11. It says that in December 2001 a team of FBI agents in Afghanistan found that at least one in every 100 detainees had an arrest record in the U.S.

A similar FBI team fingerprinted 3,800 fighters along the Iraq-Iran border in 2004. It found that more than 40 had previous criminal records in the agency's database.

The Post reports that one militant stopped at a checkpoint in Tikrit, Iraq, who claimed to be a farmer had 11 felony charges in the U.S. including assault with a deadly weapon.