[sarcasm]

Robert Epling of Community Bank of Florida said he's been told that Mohamed Atta, one of the suspected hijackers, sought a USDA loan for a crop-duster. The USDA is a tenant in the bank, which checked its files about Atta at the request of the FBI.

"We understand he was turned down" at the USDA "and they referred him to us," said Epling. A loan officer at the bank remembered a phone call from someone inquiring about crop-dusters, an unusual request because there are so few of the planes left in the area, Epling said. Nothing came of the inquiry from the unnamed person.

James Lester, an employee of South Florida Crop Care in Belle Glade, told the FBI that Atta was among the men who in groups of two or three visited the crop-dusting firm nearly every weekend for six or eight weeks before the attacks.

Atta was a persistent questioner and "I recognized him because he stayed on my feet all the time. I just about had to push him away from me," Lester said

[DCBryan1]

Three words

Got gas masks?

[dennisw]

Fox news just reported evidence that at least one terrorist attempted to get a US government loan to buy a crop duster!

 

What a country!

[mostlyundecided]

MSNBC.com Sept. 25 "More Learned of Hijackers' Strike"

" ...Federal officials say they’re looking at how 20 of those detained obtained fake IDs to get permits allowing them to transport hazardous materials..."

I have heard in other cropduster articles that you would need a large quantity (800 gallons?) of chemical weapons to use in the crop duster to do any damage...and how could they do that without being noticed was the argument -saying it was unlikely....SO they would need to know how to transport THESE HAZARDOUS MATERIALS, right? AND do it without getting noticed,Right?

Duh...you get a job with a legit hazardous transport company, which gives you access to the chemicals and a way to transport them!!! AND no one would suspect anything! They had already taken this step if you reread the quote at the top!

Just my two cents. I can't believe I haven't heard this mentioned in any article, yet.

[vmatt]

sarcasm posted a link at the top of the page with a good article about this. My apologies, everyone.