Posted on 12/19/2009 8:47:07 AM PST by AJKauf
Osama bin Laden has approximately 53 half-siblings. Last week, ABC reported that 12 of them have FAA pilot’s licenses, making them “eligible to fly aircraft anywhere in the United States.”
While this is indeed an eye-opener of a headline, Osama bin Laden’s high-profile siblings and the FAA are a small concern compared to the threat posed by thousands of would-be foreign pilots routinely granted pilot licenses by the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA).
Last year, in my Pajamas Media article “Flight School Fiasco: No Lessons Learned After 9/11,” I wrote that the TSA, not the FAA, has the final say on who gets to fly airplanes in the United States — including bin Ladens. This remains true today. TSA is in charge of the Alien Flight Student Program, which insiders say is a disaster waiting to happen.
Between 2002 and 2008, as many as 8,000 foreigners had been granted their pilot’s license without having been properly vetted. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
This government is broke.
53 sibs is almost as many as BO has. Which clan is a bigger threat to the US . . .
Not much to discuss there...In the long term, obamao has already done more damage to the U.S. than osama, in his wildest dreams, could have...
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