[maestro]

?..... In the summer of 2000, a military team, known as Able Danger, had prepared a chart that included visa photographs of Atta and al Shehhi and recommended to the military's Special Operations Command that the information be shared with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Rep. Curt Weldon and a former intelligence official told the New York Times....?

......This has NOTHING to do with the ,.....al-Qaeda U.N or 'INS'....move on....

[alisasny]

Frankly even if they were known prior to 911 and still had legal visas what could have been done to keep them off the planes? Yeah they had boxcutters but I assume they knew they may get caught with them and would have left them behind if caught and overpowered the planes without them.
Also they were obeying the US laws for all intentions so how could they have been profiled before 911 when boarding the planes?