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Top 9/11 suspect 'was granted US visa'
FT.com ^

Posted on 01/27/2004 4:32:24 PM PST by Stew Padasso

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1 posted on 01/27/2004 4:32:24 PM PST by Stew Padasso
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a state department visa no doubt...
2 posted on 01/27/2004 4:36:55 PM PST by corkoman (Logged in - have you?)
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I thought that guy in Minnesota was supoosed to be the 20th stooge.
3 posted on 01/27/2004 4:51:36 PM PST by yooper (If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there......)
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But we will now easily be able to check upo on millions of new "Guest Wrokers" !!!


How will W's guest worker program make my nation safer given a post 9/11 world?
4 posted on 01/27/2004 4:51:51 PM PST by Kay Soze (If Ted kennedy's 100B dollar health care plan passes both houses will "W" veto it?)
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>>>was granted a visa through a US consulate in Saudi Arabia after applying under a false Saudi passport using the alias Abdulrahman al Ghamdi,

Wans't this one of the Hijackers?
5 posted on 01/27/2004 4:52:50 PM PST by swarthyguy
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Khalid-Shaikh-Mohammed:


6 posted on 01/27/2004 4:54:40 PM PST by Stew Padasso (Head down over a saddle.)
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I meant the visa he got, in the alias of Ghamdi - who was a hijacker on one of the planes.

Did someone else use that visa to enter the US? one of the 19 or got in at some other time......
7 posted on 01/27/2004 4:57:44 PM PST by swarthyguy
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No he was one of the top suspects in the May bombings in Saudi Arabia...he surrendered after the Saudi's grabbed his family.

Here..

In Washington, a US official said the surrender of Ali Abdulrahman Al-Ghamdi was a significant setback to al-Qaeda, having taking out of action the terror network's senior operative in the Saudi kingdom.

8 posted on 01/27/2004 4:57:56 PM PST by Dog
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As dog says, a Saudi bomber.

What gives?
9 posted on 01/27/2004 5:01:07 PM PST by Shermy
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You begin to understand why FBI guys must stay awake at night.
10 posted on 01/27/2004 5:02:35 PM PST by swarthyguy
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KSM used the name of a real person....interesting.
11 posted on 01/27/2004 5:11:56 PM PST by Dog
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And why would KSM be trying to get to the US? Ideas?
12 posted on 01/27/2004 5:32:13 PM PST by Shermy
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Maybe he handed the visa to someone else who may or may have come in. Or did and left!

What the article doesn't say may be the non barking dog.

Was that visa ever used for US entry?
13 posted on 01/27/2004 5:35:19 PM PST by swarthyguy
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And why would KSM be trying to get to the US? Ideas?

Nothing good, you can be sure. Bringing in money? Bringing in instructions to agents in place?

14 posted on 01/27/2004 5:37:22 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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He seems like such a big fish to do this himself, too high profile to risk capture...unless the his purpose was so very sensitive.
15 posted on 01/27/2004 5:39:33 PM PST by Shermy
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KSM bump.
16 posted on 01/27/2004 5:45:08 PM PST by Shermy
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testimony from José Melendez-Perez, an immigration official who refused US entry to Mohamed al-Kahtani, an al-Qaeda operative that the commission suspects was supposed to be the 20th hijacker.

I've heard the phrase "20th hijacker" *so* many times since 9/11 that I automatically think of the Fifth Beatle...

First it was Zacarias Moussaoui, then Ramzi bin Al-Shibh, then KSM and now this assclown!

17 posted on 01/27/2004 6:06:45 PM PST by NYC GOP Chick (Kaddafi is such a whack job that he never promoted himself past Colonel!)
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bump
18 posted on 01/27/2004 6:07:33 PM PST by VOA
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More proof that 9/11 had nothing to do with immigration, so we should continue not enforcing immigration laws and bring in even more legal and illegal immigrants. /openbordersfreetrade
19 posted on 01/27/2004 6:59:21 PM PST by sixmil
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To: Stew Padasso; aristeides; Dog
Al Ghamdi is also the name of the Sheikh in the Osama video nov/dec 2001 showing the boys gloating over the Attacks.

Big, important Saudi family.
20 posted on 01/29/2004 10:37:00 AM PST by swarthyguy
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