Posted on 09/25/2006 10:56:22 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Dozens of Foreign Pilots Training Illegally at US Flight Schools
September 25, 2006 1:09 PM
Brian Ross and Eric Longabardi Report:
Apg_plane_060925_nr_1Dozens of foreign student pilots with questionable visas have been able to slip between the cracks and gain entry to American flight schools, federal officials tell ABC News.
The FAA says it is conducting an investigation of a number of flight instructors and schools, including one school which was attended by 9-ll hijackers Mohammed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi.
An internal Homeland Security document obtained by ABC News, says the post 9-11 program to prevent terrorists from entering US flight schools has been marked by "confusion and misinterpretations."
Under the program, no foreign national can receive flight training in the United States without approval from the Transportation Security Administration.
In a July, 2006 memo, the TSA complains the program has been flawed because other agencies, including the Department of State, have provided "conflicting and ambiguous" information about whether applicants had valid visas for flight training.
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Hell, let's just make it easy on ourselves (Americans) and by racial profiling.
CANADA - Giving passports to those who can't get them in other countries..... :o
If one of those fuzzy foreigners ever is involved in a crash,,I want the Secretary of Transportation and Homeland Defense tarred, feathered and hung in the public square.
Why do we have to see crap like this Posted. Do your damned jobs. If there are illegal actions going on , Lock the sons of bi*ches up. close the school.
If they havent got the proper BonaFides , let them tell it to the Judge. Stop passing the buck and blaming it on State , Canada or anyone else. Do your damned job, Use some balls. Where is Homeland Security? Are they frightened by the State department too?
We are paying big bucks for Security and we find the people in Security are afraid of stepping on some toes.
Government bow-wows, doing nothing. Not unusual.
Your last line says it all....
So the govmnt isn't protecting us because they are afraid to profile. As always, PC kills.
Why do I not trust this news source? :-D
What's wrong with the FBI/TSA/Justice Dept/etc?
As long as the State Department is in charge of issuing visas, we will always have problems.
My son is a flight instructor at a small airport..
I am going to try to call him and see what/if anything he as been told to do, re: foreign students.
I know that at his school they train a lot of Italian students..the owner is from Italy...but, I am not sure of any other countries.
If anyone here wants to know what I find out...just let me know.
Ping
>Where is Homeland Security?<
Right where it has always been, in the pocket of the Council on Foreign Relations! How can we be surprised when Homeland "Security" has done nothing to keep these Jihad scum from entering our country through both borders for five years running? So much for "Security"! It is like the Jihad is doing the CFR's job for them in forcing us into The New World Order.
How about closing the State Department, firing everybody, and opening a "Foreign Affairs Bureau" to handle these responsilibilties and work FOR the American people?
Why don't the flight schools refuse to train these guys? Don't they have any responsibility for how their trainees will use their training? How would you feel if you knew you were responsible for training Atta to fly an American plane into the WTC? Am I crazy for thinking these schools should do their patriotic duty?
We can thank the media, liberals, and the ACLU for this PCC (politically correct crap). It will be the death of more Americans, until the time that Americans take matters into their own hands!
"Foreign Pilots Training Illegally at US Flight Schools"
The administration can spend billions projecting power halfway round the world but can't seem to keep ner-do-wells out of our own country.
Time to refocus.
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