Activist Nuns Labeled As Suspected Terrorists

Baltimore, Maryland (AHN) - Roman Catholic nuns Sister Ardeth Platte, 72, and Sister Carol Gilbert, 60, who spent over four decades promoting peace and protesting against nuclear weapons, discovered they had been listed as terrorists.

They found out about being wrongly listed as suspected terrorists in a federal database in 2005-2006 when they received letters from the Maryland State Police after they returned from a two-week trip.

The reports about the Dominican nuns emerged after police acknowledged that around 53 non-violent activists were wrongly listed into state and federal databases that track terrorism suspects.

Police Superintendent Terrence B. Sheridan said on Friday that the department has begun sending letters of notification to the activists to invite them to review their files entered in the databases before they are deleted.

In 2002, the nuns faced prison sentences after they broke into an unmanned Minuteman III missile silo, which is the U.S. nuclear missile site, in northeastern Colorado and painted crosses on the site with their own blood.