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Data, Detection, and the Redistribution of the Sensible in International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2017

Fleur Johns*
Affiliation:
Professor of Law, UNSW Law, UNSW SydneyAustralia. Email: [email protected].

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One dusty day in 2002, at Takhta Baig Voluntary Repatriation Centre near Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan, an Afghan woman—let us call her Amena—entered a nondescript room and sat down in front of a camera. A brief conversation took place with a woman sitting nearby at a computer terminal. Amena placed her chin where she was directed to do so, swept back a few strands of hair creeping out of her veil, and stared straight ahead for a few seconds while a series of photographs of one of her eyes was taken. Almost immediately, a small alarm sounded on the computer terminal of the woman seated alongside her. Amena was gently ushered toward the other side of the room for discussions with other officials. Some short time later, she was advised that her request to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for a modest cash grant and some supplies to aid her and her family's repatriation to Afghanistan had been denied. This was because, according to output of the UNHCR’s iris verification program, she had already received assistance earlier the same year. When asked, Amena admitted that she had indeed sought UNHCR repatriation assistance multiple times, under pressure from family members. She walked away. Soon, she could soon no longer be seen amid the press of trucks, cars, bicycles, and people that stretched to the suburbs in the distance.

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3 Afghan “Recyclers” Under Scrutiny of New Technology, UNHCR News Stories (Oct. 3, 2002), at http://www.unhcr.org/3d9c57708.html. On deployment elsewhere, see, e.g., Justin Lee, WFP, UNHCR Using Iris Recognition for Syrian Refugee Food Program in Zaatari, Biometric Update (Oct. 17, 2016), at http://www.biometricupdate.com/201610/wfp-unhcr-using-iris-recognition-for-syrian-refugee-food-program-in-zaatari. Two of the four iris verification centers set up near the Afghan-Pakistan border in 2002 were closed in 2004 after a decline in the number of refugees returning to Afghanistan. UNHCR Closes Two Iris Verification Centres in Pakistan, IRIN (Sept. 20, 2004), at http://www.irinnews.org/news/2004/09/20/unhcr-closes-two-iris-verification-centres-pakistan.

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19 Kennedy, supra note 18, at 32.

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36 Samuel A. Chambers, The Lessons of Rancière 38–64, 122–56 (2013) (explaining Rancière's reinvention of politics premised on the prevalence of orders of inequality and domination, and insistence that the “disordering logic” of democracy must operate on this terrain). In referring to the embedded inequality of the international legal field, I am saying something more than that international law is implicated in, and helps to reproduce “real world” inequalities understood as external to the field. Rather, the claim is that the purported commonality of the international legal field is made of inequality; that inequality in the distribution of sense-making capacity is fundamental to its operation in ways not well captured by critiques of international law for gender bias, racial bias, or other modes of external critique.

37 See, e.g., Plato, Republic, Book VII 107–17 (Emlyn-Jones, Chris & Preddy, William ed. & trans., Harvard Univ. Press 2014)Google Scholar (c. 380–360 B.C.E.) (the allegory of the cave, a famous exposition of Plato's conviction that reality may only be apprehended intellectually, through an appreciation of abstract “forms,” not by the senses); David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 2329 (Millican, Peter ed., Oxford Univ. Press 2007)Google Scholar (1748) (arguing that knowledge arises not from reason but from experience); Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception (Landes, Donald A. trans., Routledge 2012)Google Scholar (1945) (emphasizing the role of bodily experience in consciousness); Nancy, Jean-Luc & Syrotinski, Michael, Extraordinary Sense, 8 The Senses & Soc'y 10 (2013)CrossRefGoogle Scholar (on the sensory or sensible foundations of philosophic thought and their resistance to rational ordering).

38 These statements are not made out of any circumspection about Rancière's project, or doubt about the importance or politics of his work. What I am seeking to avoid here is any suggestion that the dilemmas by which international law is plagued and by which international lawyers should be concerned—as represented in this article—might be cured or transcended by recourse to another discipline. All too often in legal writing, appeal is made to some deus ex machina drawn from another scholarly field, presumed to be free of the difficulties attributed to the legal discipline in question and capable of leading hapless lawyers out of those difficulties with benign grace. My engagement with Rancière's work in this article is brief and contained only to avoid any such representation of his power (a representation of which Rancière's work itself counsels wariness).

39 Yasuaki, Onuma, International Law in and with International Politics: The Functions of International Law in International Society, 14 Eur. J. Int'l L. 105, 108 (2003)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. On the role played by functionalism in international legal thought, see Johnston, Douglas M., Functionalism in the Theory of International Law, 26 Can. Y.B. Int'l L. 3 (1988)Google Scholar.

40 UN Charter pmbl.; Art. 1, para.1.

41 See, e.g., Martti Koskenniemi, From Apology to Utopia: The Structure of International Legal Argument 515 (rev. ed. 2005) (“Juristic discussion appeared to remain in a constant flux. It could find no position in which to remain permanently.”).

42 Rancière, Jacques, Panagia, Davide & Bowlby, Rachel, Ten Theses on Politics, 5(3) Theory & Event (2001)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, available at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/v005/5.3ranciere.html.

43 Id.

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48 Stephen J. Whitfield, The Culture of the Cold War 1–25, 203–31 (2d ed. 1996).

49 Mohamed Shaker, The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty: Origin and Implementation 1959–1979, Vol. 1, at 5 (1980). See also Joyner, supra note 44, at 3–11.

50 Shaker, supra note 49

51 Joyner, supra note 44, at 7.

52 Id. at 9.

53 Id. at 8. See Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, supra note 47, Art. IX, para. 3.

54 UNODA, Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Status of the Treaty, at http://disarmament.un.org/treaties/t/npt (last visited Mar. 28, 2017).

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56 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, supra note 47, Art. I.

57 Joyner, supra note 44, at 11.

58 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, supra note 47, Art. II.

59 Id. Art. III. For wider-angle insights into the work of the IAEA, see David Fischer, History of the International Atomic Energy Agency: The First Forty Years (1997) (narrating the history of the IAEA from 1957 to 1997); Hecht, Gabrielle, The Power of Nuclear Things, 51 Tech. & Culture 1, 8 (2010)CrossRefGoogle Scholar (arguing that the IAEA's “distinctions about nuclearity” serve in part to constitute “a technopolitical frame for global trade”).

60 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, supra note 47, Arts. IV–V.

61 Id. Art. VI.

62 IAEA, The Structure and Content of Agreements Between the Agency and States Required in Connection with the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (June 1, 1972), at https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/publications/documents/infcircs/1972/infcirc153.pdf [hereinafter INFCIRC/153]. See Joyner, supra note 44, at 20.

63 INFCIRC/153, supra note 62, paras. 7–9, 31–32, 51–90.

64 Rancière, supra note 14, at 19.

65 INFCIRC/153, supra note 62, para. 87 (emphasis in original).

66 IAEA, Biography of Hans Blix, at https:// www.iaea.org/about/dg/blix/biography (last visited Mar. 28, 2017).

67 Helena Smith, Blix: I Was Smeared by the Pentagon, Guardian (June 11, 2003), at http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jun/11/iraq.usa. See generally Hans Blix, Disarming Iraq (2004).

68 Sydney Peace Found., Hans Blix, 2007, at http://sydneypeacefoundation.org.au/peace-prize-recipients/2007-hans-blix (last visited Mar. 28, 2017); Fulbright Ass'n, Past Laureates of the Fulbright Prize, 2014 – Hans Blix, at http://fulbright.org/fulbright-prize/past-prize-laureates (last visited Mar. 28, 2017).

69 Nobel Prize, Mohamed ElBaradei – Biographical, at http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2005/elbaradei-bio.html (last visited Mar. 28, 2017). The latter was the title of ElBaradei's 2011 memoir: Mohamed ElBaradei, The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times (2011).

70 Scott Ritter, We Ain't Found Shit, 37 London Rev. Books 35 (July 7, 2015).

71 INFCIRC/153, supra note 62, para. 85.

72 But see The Role of ‘Experts’ in International and European Decision-Making Processes, supra note 17 (analyzing experts’ role at the international and European levels in the policy areas of environment, trade, human rights, migration, and financial regulation).

73 INFCIRC/153, supra note 62, paras. 9, 49–69.

74 This seems in tension with Michael Power's widely read account of the “drift from an inspection style to an audit style of oversight” with audit style treating “the management system as its primary object” whereas inspection style “focuses more on the substantive conduct of the inspectee” (although it is “difficult to distinguish definitively between them”). See Michael Power, The Audit Society: Rituals of Verification 130–31 (1997).

75 INFCIRC/153, supra note 62, paras. 51–69, 74–75.

76 Id., paras. 8–9, 88.

77 INFCIRC/153, supra note 62; IAEA, Model Protocol Additional to the Agreement(s) Between State(s) and the International Atomic Energy Agency for the Application of Safeguards (Sept. 1, 1997), at https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/infcirc540.pdf [hereinafter INFCIRC/540].

78 Hirsch, Theodore, The IAEA Additional Protocol: What It Is and Why It Matters, 2004 Non-proliferation Rev. 140, 143 (2004)Google Scholar.

79 INFCIRC/153, supra note 62, para. 6.

80 INFCIRC/540, supra note 77, Arts. 5(c), 6, 9, 18(f), 18(g).

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83 INFCIRC/153, supra note 62, para. 1; Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, supra note 47, Art. III, para. 1.

84 INFCIRC/153, supra note 62, paras. 43(b)–(c), 49(a), 58(c), and, for the definition of a “facility” to be so described, para. 106; INFCIRC/540, supra note 77, Art. 2.

85 INFCIRC/153, supra note 62, paras. 74–75, 91–97; INFCIRC/540, supra note 77, Art. 6(a).

86 INFCIRC/153, supra note 62, paras. 76–82; INFCIRC/540, supra note 77, Arts. 4–9 (emphasis in original).

87 INFCIRC/540, supra note 77, Art. 15.

88 Id. Art. 14(b).

89 Hirsch, supra note 78, at 143.

90 Pilat, Joseph F., The Future of the NPT, in Routledge Handbook of Nuclear Proliferation and Policy 131, 139 (Pilat, Joseph F. & Busch, Nathan E. eds., 2015)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

91 INFCIRC/153, supra note 62, paras. 74–75; INFCIRC/540, supra note 77, Arts. 6, 14. For background on the controversies and sensitivities surrounding the IAEA gaining access to, and relying on, intelligence data gleaned from satellites under individual nations’ control, see Fischer, supra note 59, at 283.

92 Guy S. Goodwin-Gill & Jane McAdam, The Refugee in International Law 1 (2d ed. 2007).

93 Id.; see also Johns, Fleur, The Madness of Migration: Disquiet in the International Law Relating to Refugees, 27 Int'l J. L. & Psych. 587, 588 (2004)Google ScholarPubMed (discussing the tendency of “international refugee law … to foster a sense that multivalent allegiance and migratory diffusion are deviant, unnatural impulses”).

94 UNHCR, Registration: A Practical Guide for Field Staff (Jan. 1, 1994), available at http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/AD0FDA8A15FAB9EEC1256D360037732C-hcr-register.pdf [hereinafter 1994 UNHCR Guide].

95 Id.

96 UNHCR, Commodity Distribution: A Practical Guide for Field Staff (June 1997), at http://www.unhcr.org/3c4d44554.html [hereinafter 1997 UNHCR Guide]. For insight into practices of refugee registration, identification, and counting beyond the scope of these manuals, and ways in which these play into the global politics of refugee protection and aid distribution, see Harrell-Bond, Barbara, Voutira, Eftihia & Leopold, Mark, Counting the Refugees: Gifts, Givers, Patrons and Clients, 5 J. Refugee Stud. 205 (1992)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Edwards, Alice, A Numbers Game: Counting Refugees and International Burden-Sharing, 32 U. Tasmania L. Rev. 1 (2013)Google Scholar; Zetter, Roger, Labelling Refugees: Forming and Transforming a Bureaucratic Identity, 4 J. Refugee Stud. 39 (1991)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

97 1994 UNHCR Guide, supra note 94; 1997 UNHCR Guide, supra note 96.

98 See Handl, Gunther F., Reisman, W. Michael, Simma, Bruno, Dupuy, Pierre Marie & Chinkin, Christine, A Hard Look at Soft Law, 82 ASIL Proc. 371 (1988)Google Scholar; Robilant, Anna di, Genealogies of Soft Law, 54 Am. J. Comp. L. 499 (2006)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

99 Contra Harrell-Bond, Voutira & Leopold, supra note 96, at 211 (arguing that “the attitudes of assistance agencies themselves lead to disbelief of any self-generated estimates of refugee numbers … ”).

100 1994 UNHCR Guide, supra note 94, pt. 2, para. 7.3.

101 Id., pt. 2, para. 7.3; pt. 3, para. 1.2.

102 Id., pt. 2, para. 7.11.

103 Id.

104 Id., pt. 4, para. 6.2(e).

105 1997 UNHCR Guide, supra note 96, Key Points.

106 Id., sec. 1.4.5.

107 1994 UNHCR Guide, supra note 94, pt. 2, para. 7.10; pt. 3, para. 2.2; pt. 4, paras. 1.7, 6.1, 6.3.

108 Id., pt. 4, para. 10.6.

109 Id., pt. 4, para. 10.8.

110 Id., pt. 2, para. 7.12.

111 Id., pt. 2, paras. 1.3–1.4.

112 Id., pt. 2, para. 9.5.

113 1997 UNHCR Guide, supra note 96, secs. 1.2, 3.1.

114 Id., sec. 1.1.

115 Id., sec. 3.5.

116 1994 UNHCR Guide, supra note 94, pt. 2, paras. 8.1–8.4.

117 Id., pt. 2, paras. 5.1, 7.8, 8.4.

118 Id., pt. 2, para. 8.3.

119 1997 UNHCR Guide, supra note 96, sec. 1.4.1.

120 Id., secs. 1.2, 5.2.

121 1994 UNHCR Guide, supra note 94, pt. 2, paras. 1.6, 10.1.

122 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, supra note 47, Art. III.

123 INFCIRC/153, supra note 62, para. 2.

124 1997 UNHCR Guide, supra note 96, sec. 1.4.2.

125 1994 UNHCR Guide, supra note 94, pt. 4, para. 10.5(c).

126 1997 UNHCR Guide, supra note 96, sec. 1.4.2.

127 Id.

128 Id., sec. 1.4.3.

129 1994 UNHCR Guide, supra note 94, pt. 2, para. 9.10.

130 Id.

131 1997 UNHCR Guide, supra note 96, sec. 2.1.

132 1994 UNHCR Guide, supra note 94, pt. 4, para. 10.11.

133 Id., pt. 4, paras. 10.11(a), (g).

134 Id., pt. 4, para. 9.2; 1997 UNHCR Guide, supra note 96, secs. 3.5–3.6.

135 1994 UNHCR Guide, supra note 94, pt. 3, para. 2.3(b); 1997 UNHCR Guide, supra note 96, secs. 2.3, 3.5.

136 1994 UNHCR Guide, supra note 94, pt. 4, para. 9.2.

137 Martti Koskenniemi, The Gentle Civilizer of Nations: The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870–1960, at 406 (2004).

138 1994 UNHCR Guide, supra note 94, pt. 2, para. 9.1.

139 Id., pt. 5, para. 4.1.

140 1997 UNHCR Guide, supra note 96, sec. 2.2.

141 Id.

142 Id., sec. 6.2.

143 Id., sec. 2.2.

144 Contra Friedrich A. Hayek, 2 Law, Legislation, and Liberty: The Mirage of Social Justice 107, 109 (1978).

145 Contra Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Andreas, Atmospheres of Law: Senses, Affects, Lawscapes, 7 Emotion, Space & Soc'y 35 (2013)CrossRefGoogle Scholar (emphasizing law's regulation and control of the sensing body, although Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos does not, admittedly, posit a prelegal, authentic mode of bodily existence as such).

146 Contra Danilo Mandic, Caterina Nirta, Andrea Pavoni & Andreas Philoppopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Introduction: Law and Taste 5 (The Westminster Online Working Papers Series, Law and the Senses Series: The Taste Issue, 2013), available at https://nonliquetlaw.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/law-and-the-senses_taste.pdf (“[S]ince [it is] deemed much too close to the animal, the elemental, the corporeal … taste has to be controlled, disciplined and moderated, to avoid it turning into a capital vice (gluttony).”).

147 The reference to law and policy having “weight” makes use of a phrase in Pilat, supra note 90, at 139 (discussing the “normative and legal weight of the [NPT] regime”). Regarding the “pull” to/of law and lawfulness, there are many scholarly accounts of this phenomenon and how it may be sustained. One of my favorites, albeit not one directly transposable here, is Duncan Kennedy's account of an encounter with a rule that “just applies itself” in the course of adjudication. See Kennedy, Duncan, Freedom and Constraint in Adjudication: A Critical Phenomenology, 36 J. Leg. Educ. 518, 520 (1986)Google Scholar.

148 Gary Milhollin, The Iraqi Bomb, New Yorker, Feb. 1, 1993, at 47; ElBaradei, supra note 69, at 9–28.

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151 IAEA, Strengthening the Effectiveness and Improving the Efficiency of Agency Safeguards, General Conference, GC (58)/16, 3 (Aug. 5, 2014), at https://www.iaea.org/About/Policy/GC/GC58/GC58Documents/English/gc58-16_en.pdf; James Doyle, Nuclear Safeguards, Security and Nonproliferation: Achieving Security with Technology and Policy 74 (2011); Eugene P. Bertin, Principles and Practice of X-Ray Spectrometric Analysis 6–12, 89–92 (2012); Hem Raj Verma, Atomic and Nuclear Analytical Methods: XRF, Mössbauer, XPS, NAA and Ion-Beam Spectroscopic Techniques 1–2, 19 (2007).

152 IAEA Symposium on International Safeguards: Linking Strategy, Implementation and People, Oct. 20–24, 2014, Book of Abstracts Presentations and Papers, Doc. No. IAEA-CN-220 (Mar. 23, 2015), at https://www.iaea.org/safeguards/symposium/2014/home/eproceedings/sg2014_eproceedings_online.pdf [hereinafter IAEA Safeguards Symposium Proceedings].

153 Monitoring Nuclear Weapons: The Nuke Detectives, Economist (Sept. 5, 2015), at http://www.economist.com/topics/nuclear-weapons.

154 Id. (quoting Dr. Lassina Zerbo, head of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization).

155 Timothy Oleson, Beyond the Bomb: The World's Nuclear Watchdog Expands its Science, Earth Mag. (Apr. 27, 2015), at http://www.earthmagazine.org/article/beyond-bomb-worlds-nuclear-watchdog-expands-its-science.

156 Cf. Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology, in The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays 3–35 (William Lovitt trans., 1977) (on technology as revealing). Not all, however, subscribe to this expectation, and those who do voice it do so in varying degrees. Former director general of the IAEA Hans Blix, for example, has emphasized that “international civil servants” charged with on-site inspection and qualitative, as well as quantitative, analysis may reach “conclusions … closer to reality” than conclusions yielded by remotely or indirectly sourced intelligence data. For this reason, Blix has argued strongly for the maintenance of both modes of verification practice—inspection and intelligence data-gathering—and for “keep[ing] them apart.” Pomper, Miles A., Getting it Right the Next Time: An Interview with Hans Blix, 34 Arms Control Today 14, 16 (2004)Google Scholar.

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158 Alisa L. Carrigan, Can the IAEA Verify the Iran Deal?, Bull. Atomic Scientists (May 5, 2015), at http://thebulletin.org/can-iaea-verify-iran-deal8302.

159 Yukiya Amano, Statement at IAEA Symposium on International Safeguards: Linking Strategy, Implementation and People (Oct. 20, 2014), at https://www.iaea.org/safeguards/symposium/2014/images/pdfs/Speech_DG.pdf.

160 Yukiya Amano, Challenges in Nuclear Verification: The IAEA's Role on the Iranian Nuclear Issue (Oct. 31, 2014), at https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/statements/challenges-nuclear-verification-iaea's-role-iranian-nuclear-issue.

161 Denise Bleakly, Karl Horak, & Michael McDaniel, Sandia National Laboratories, Enhancing Safeguards Analysts’ Geospatial Usage 15 (2012). See Bhupendra Jasani, Bernd Richter, Gotthard Stein, Maurice D. Ward & Mark Killinger, Enhancing IAEA Safeguards Using Commercial Satellite Imagery: A Pilot Study (1996).

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163 IAEA, IAEA Safeguards, supra note 162, at 21. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists (a U.S.-based nongovernmental organization), there were 1,419 operating satellites orbiting the earth as of June 2016. See UCS Satellite Database, at http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-weapons/space-weapons/satellite-database.html#.VoveHbZ97IX (last visited Mar. 28, 2017). About 40 percent of those orbiting in 2014 were used primarily for commercial purposes. See David Yanofsky & Tim Fernholz, This is Every Active Satellite Orbiting Earth (Dec. 21, 2015), at http://qz.com/296941/interactive-graphic-every-active-satellite-orbiting-earth (last visited Mar. 28, 2017).

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167 Id. at 150–54.

168 Laura Rockwood, The IAEA's State-Level Concept and the Law of Unintended Consequences, Arms Control Today, at https://www.armscontrol.org/print/6413.

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183 INFCIRC/153, supra note 62, para. 7.

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199 Yaron Ezrahi, The Descent of Icarus: Science and the Transformation of Contemporary Democracy 275 (1990).

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209 UNHCR, Agreement Between the Government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Governing the Repatriation of Afghan Citizens Living in Pakistan (2003), Art. 15, at http://www.unhcr.org/3f5d97524.html.

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223 Afghan “Recyclers” Under Scrutiny of New Technology, supra note 3.

224 Id.

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231 Afghanistan: Iris Testing Proves Successful, supra note 205.

232 Afghan “Recyclers” Under Scrutiny of New Technology, supra note 3.

233 Id.

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