Posted on 03/12/2002 7:04:20 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Six months after they flew commercial jetliners into the World Trade Center, the Immigration and Naturalization Service has approved student visas for two of the 9/11 kamikaze hijackers who trained for the attacks at a Florida flight school.
Rudi Dekkers, an employee of Huffman Aviation, displayed for TV cameras the INS forms he received on March 11 approving hijack ringleader Mohamed Atta and his lieutenant Marwan Al-Shehhi for continued study in the U.S.
The incident left INS officials red-faced.
"I think it is certainly embarrassing that the letters show up at this late date," agency spokesman Russ Bergeron told CNN. "It does serve to illustrate what we have been saying since 1995 -- that the current system for collecting information and tracking foreign students is antiquated, outdated, inaccurate and untimely."
Bergeron pointedly noted that approval for the Atta and Al- Shehhi visas took place before the 9/11 attacks.
Nice to know that the same type of idiot working at INS is now handling Airport Security. Card carrying members of the Federal Employees Union.
Thank you, democRATS!
BTW, Is anyone besides myself sickened/disgusted by the idea that ANY government employee is ALLOWED to join ANY kind of labor union?
I believe it. I've come to learn what a big industry the education racket is in this country. Especially the "technical" and ESL schools and the like set up for sucking in foreign money. I recall that Sen. Feinstein first made noise about this, but she was shouted down. Gotta keep that university money coming in -- to lower our own tuitions? Naw, to spread around to developer buddies of the administrators, regents, etc. via new buildings and projects. Have you seen how much building is going on on campuses these days? Those Univs. with big endowments, but not lowering tuition? Just another racket. Closer control of student visas cuts profits by delay and rejections of applications.
In May 1995 Louis Freeh told Congress that the FBI was deliberately helping known terrorists for Abu Nidal cells in the US to enter the US with stiudent visas so the FBI could follow them around. The FBI knew in 1995 of the INS weaknesses and exploited the INS weaknesses to let known terrorists in so the FBI could track them. Hamas also testified befoer COngress in 2000 (posted on FR in 2001)that Hamas in the US was not a threat. Freeh was lying to Congress in my opinion.
The FBI used FBI agents and Dallas police officers to track Bin Laden/AlQaeda terrorists in Dallas since at least 1997 and Hamas terroists associated with Holy Land Foundation and InfoCOm of Dallas since 1993. The FBI is still following this bogus policy of letting terrorists in (Hamas in OKC, 5 AlQaeda cells in the US, 3 Abu Nidal cells in LA, Dallas, and Virginia) so they can follow them for years even though they lose track of them.
I called the Senate Judiciary Committee (Orin Hartch office staff member on the Senate Judiciary) today about this and I could tell they would do nothing. Their question and attitude to me has always been "why was I trying to get the FBI in trouble"? My concern spoken to them has always been "why wasn't the Judiciary Committee exercising more oversight of the FBI to investigate the allegations about the failed FBI policies of letting known terrorists in the US on student visas to track them for long periods"??
A very prominent ABC news national investigator recently told me that he agreed with my assessment of the failed FBI policy of letting known ME terrorists in the US on student visas to follow them when the FBI loses track of them after extended periods just like the FBI did with Atta (a major reason why 9/11 was not stopped). ABC told me that the FBI policy was "stupid". ABC is correct.
Please contact your COngressmen on this issue. Please see if you can get local newspapers, TV and radio to cover this issue.
Screw the tax cut. GW won't get my vote again.
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