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And since it's supposedly terrorism-related, they're just giving out all the little details about the case to random people in the area. I think your friend might just be telling a story to make it seem interesting.

I bet the driver's license database would be handy too.

Handy, but less useful. Facebook picture albums have a larger variety of the same face, and is more likely to be up-to-date, and often contain relationship information for help in actually tracking someone down.

Sorry, this relates to the posted link how?

His comment was informative and interesting to me, and yours was not.