FBI checking 5 in illegal-license cases for possible al-Qaida links

Knight Ridder ^ | Feb. 15, 2002 | LENNY SAVINO

[Lion's Cub]

It's equally possible that Hammad's pass was only peripherally related to the 9/11 attack. Since it was for the bottom 6 floors, he may have been there to steal something. I remember there was a large vault there. Perhaps he was casing the place to see if the attack would create an adequate diversion for some theft.

Smith's murder just has more of an organized crime quality about it to me. Somebody felt comfortable enough to stage the "warning" on a fairly busy highway. Somebody felt reasonably protected.

I haven't forgotten all the shorts on the airlines. People knew about the attack. The link between crime and terrorism is well established. So why couldn't Hammand be moving in both worlds?

[Travis McGee]

It's a shame they get to sit silently in cozy cells getting fat and watching TV all day, instead of sitting naked on hard stools under bright lights in a forgotten hanger on a closed base somewhere talking to Turks, Israelis and Philippinos.

Then and only then we'd get all the answers to these questions, and many more.

[thinden]

the thing that stinks most about the "2001 plumbers" is that a non union plumber couldn't step on that island?

[Clovis_Skeptic]

After walking across the border from Mexico into California, he went to New York, where he said he needed the driver's license to get a job

Prior to 9-11, there was a push in California, to issue drivers licenses to illegal aliens. It was to make them "better drivers"..ha ha ha!!!! So far, that idea has died for now. But, I am sure it will come forward once again.