*** U.S. terror watch list streamlined, updated instantaneously ***

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Now a single tip about a terror link will be enough for inclusion in the watch list for U.S. security officials, who have also evolved a quicker system to share the database of potential terrorists among screening agencies; a senior U.S. counter-terrorism official said that officials have now "effectively in a broad stroke lowered the bar for inclusion" in the list; the new criteria have led to only modest growth in the list, which stands at 440,000 people, about 5 percent more than last year; also, instead of sending data once a night to the Terrorist Screening Center's watch list, which can take hours, the new system should be able to update the watch list almost instantly as names are entered