FBI arrests Texas doctor in hijacking case

USA Today ^ | 09/18/2001 - Updated 04:03 AM ET | By Kevin Johnson, Toni Locy and Richard Willing, USA TODAY

[BigBobber]

I agree. They are similar to the upper and middle class brats from this country who became radical terrorists during the Viet Nam war.

We are fighting the same monster now as then.

[wjeanw]

Make peace with the Iranians? How? They hate us for the same reason why Bin Laden hates us, even if they don't agree with his interpretation of the Koran!

[wjeanw]

I strongly disagree. Before all political and ideological revolutions, the ruling classes have been convinced of their own corruption and the worthlessness of the present culture. You see it prior to the French, Russian and Chinese revolutions. I think you are seeing a similar problem among the Muslim countries. However, they are not looking to socialism/communism as the answer but a theocracy based on various interpretations of the Koran. What unites them is the feeling that alliance with the Christian West has corrupted them spiritually and nationally. [PS Don't throw the American War of Independence as an example of this NOT happening as our war was not a revolution. It was a conservative revolt against George's underminding of the British Constitution.]

[thinden]

how dow we get a copy of the "watch list":

1. just go to Fibber building in D.C. and walk around with a fist full of cash telling people you want to buy the watch list.

2. just go to the state dept. building in D.C. and walk around till you see a nice lap top laying around then pick it up and walk out with it.

3. when all else fails, call the chinese embassy and have them email you a copy.

[thinden]

Investigators became particularly interested in Alhazmi for several reasons:

From the start, the FBI probe found several "electronic and financial" links between the hijackers and the San Antonio area, law enforcement sources say. This is an indication that agents tracking e-mails, electronic purchases or bank transactions found reason to more closely examine Alhazmi.

your neighbors south of the red river seems to have a "financial/money gathering/support cell" going there with the good doctor??

[lilylangtree]

This gives me the creeps. Take a look at the medical doctors in the small towns throughout the US. I'm guessing these Arab doctors perform their residency there and keep out of the public's eye.

[boycott]

Agree 100% with post #46. Now is not the time to be politically correct.

In addition, our universities are supported with TAXPAYER dollars. Why is it important for us to develop the rest of the these nations? I'd rather they still live in the stone age.

Without our help, the worst they could do is throw rocks at us. We are supplying our enemies with knowledge and technology.

God Bless America

[bluehorse95]

I think that the INFAMOUS "watch list" needs to be used correctly. Round them up and kick 'em out of our country! The INS needs to review all people of Arab background who are NOT already American citizens, then there needs to be an intensive background check. If something turns up then they are deported.

[El Gato]

He is from the University of Texas -- that in itself probaby indicates he has ties to some "undesirables" in Austin

The UT Health Science Center in question is in San Antonio, not Austin. Might as well be two different countries, even if they are only about 75 miles apart, right next door by Texas standards. You think the only U. California is in Berkley? Texas is a big state and there are many components to the University of Texas system.

[LenS]

Oil and Egypt don't coincide. It's not a major player in the world oil market. So we need them not at all. Tell Mubarak to clamp down or we'll nuke Cairo, Alexandria and the Aswan dams, ending a five thousand year civilization permanently.

NO QUARTER!

[Dog Gone]

Egypt does not sponsor terrorism. They may need assistance in eradicating any terrorists within their borders.

If you don't see the difference between them and Afghanistan or Syria, then you probably shouldn't say anything at all.

[sinkspur]

A little more information can be found in this DALLAS MORNING NEWS story.

[okie01]

"I think you are seeing a similar problem among the Muslim countries."

Most revolutions are, it is true, led by disaffected youths. They are almost always manipulated by power-hungry adults, as well. Our own sixties and seventies were no different.

Such bloody eruptions of youthful nihilism are relatively common in the history of Islam.

For example, the Mufti of Jerusalem led a similar movement during WW II. The dervishes of Kitchener's Khartoum were another manifestion, c. 1898.

In both cases, the revolts were not necessarily aimed simply at the "oppressive colonial master", the British, but at Western civilization in general. And they were led by characters not unlike OBL and the Taliban, charismatic priests with a musket under one arm and a perversely interpreted Koran under the other.

[snippy_about_it]

The doctor

[Paleo Conservative]

I am very glad that I never had Dr. Alhazmi do any radiology work on me. I recently had a myelogram and a laminectomy on my back. I would have been horrified if I had had a doctor, who has violated his professional and ethical oath. Fortunately he has not finnished his residency. He will never receive his certification, and he will never have the opportunity to practice radiology because he will either have to serve a life sentence or will be executed. Actually he is lucky that arrested by police rather apprehended by ordinary citizens, he might have needed to see a radiolgist in that case.