Originally Posted by daw617
Probably, yeah. Probably some criminal used this guy's name as an alias, and the name got put on the list. The list has so many darn names on it that I wouldn't be surprised if it were coincidence.
(Incidentally, I have a vague memory that there are actually two lists, and it's probably not the "no-fly" list that he was on -- I can't remember what the other was called.)
There are way more than two lists, but the practical appearance to many "users and subjects" is that there are two: a "watch list" that gets a passenger haraSSSSed and a "no-fly list" that doesn't necessarily result in arrest but will certainly deny a passenger the ability to fly ..... unless the denied person gets creative.