I'm simply going by the report, which may not be true. However, they identify 100 UAE Air Force Cadets attending UW-Eau Claire (that in itself is strange). And all 100 taking skydiving lessons arranged by the same agent, who can't be located, at the same school. My common sense tells me all 100 didn't choose the same recreation. I bet the skydiving club at Eau Claire, if there is one, doesn't have 100 members. Didn't anyone want to go fishing or hunting? You may of course, come to a different conclusion.
Do you really think some podunk skydiving school in Minnesota is providing sophisticated military training by having these kids jump out of a cessna?
It looks like they were providing training, not very sophisticated. What disturbs me is that the government didn't know a thing about it. These guys don't really appear to be a threat, but the slovenly way the State Dept. keeps track of foreign students has cost a lot of American lives.
Ironically had State known and the UAE asked, these kids would probably have been trained at Ft. Benning.
That is one of the best comments on this thread. After the bombing of the WTC in 1993, Clinton just remained asleep at the wheel..well, asleep in the wrong places.