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I must say I am NOT impressed with the color coded alert system from Homland Security. This announced on the same day that a flight school gets Visa approval for two of the terrorists who died on their mission on Sept. 11. Did someone forget to inform INS that we are under a yellow alert? I want to hear that people are FIRED for this.

MIAMI -- When envelopes of routine government paperwork arrived at Huffman Aviation school, the names on the forms immediately stuck out: Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi.
Those men are believed to have been two of the hijackers of the two jetliners that slammed into the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 11, killing almost 3,000 people.
The paperwork that arrived in the mail on Monday - the six-month anniversary of the attacks - contained both men's student visa approval forms from the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Russ Bergeron, an immigration agency spokesman, attributed the embarrassing delay to a backlog of documents at a federal paperwork processing center in London, Ky. (EXCUSES! You don't have to make excuses unless you'e done something wrong. Who will be fired for this?)
He described the paperwork as "backup notification." He said the INS had already notified the men and the school last summer about the approvals.

Atta and Al-Shehhi trained at Huffman in Venice, Fla., in 2000 and early 2001, and were aboard the separate flights that struck the trade center towers.
The two initially entered the United States on visitor's visas but applied for M-1 student visas, given to immigrants attending technical schools in the United States. Foreign students are generally allowed to study in the United States as long as they apply for student visas, said Russ Bergeron, a spokesman for the immigration service.
The INS approved Atta's request in July 2001 and Al-Shehhi's request the following month, Bergeron said.
"The important thing to recognize is the decisions to change their status were made ... before Sept. 11, and at the time there was no information made available to INS regarding these people and their link to terrorism," Bergeron said.

......Dekkers said Atta and Al-Shehhi completed the paperwork on Aug. 29, 2000, just before they began their six-month flight instruction program at the school.
The forms, filled out by an assistant at Huffman, indicated that both men met the English language requirements to study at the school. Atta listed his nationality as Egyptian, while Al-Shehhi said he was from United Arab Emirates.
On the form, Atta's name is spelled "Mohomed." The documents indicated the academic term lasting up to 12 months would cost $27,300.
Both men studied at the Technical University in Hamburg, Germany, received pilot training at Huffman and practiced their flying on a Boeing 727 flight simulator in the Miami suburb of Opa-locka.

I must say I am NOT impressed with the color coded alert system from Homland Security

To you and I it may looked pretty stupid .. but keep in mind that most in the Media still haven't figured why we are in this War and what it is all about

Sometimes one needs to stoop down to their level so they can understand .. lol