Dead 9/11 Hijackers Get Visas on Attack Anniversary

NewsMax ^ | 3/12/02 | Limbacher

[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saying since 1995 -- that the current system for collecting information and tracking foreign students is antiquated, outdated, inaccurate and untimely."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.

[tgslTakoma]

Paging Alan Keyes... I think we have a subject for Congressional hearings... and an agency of the federal government just begging to be held accountable for weakening our national security...

[tgslTakoma]

"I think it is certainly embarrassing that the letters show up at this late date," agency spokesman Russ Bergeron told CNN.

So is this knucklehead saying that it's embarrassing to the INS that they didn't approve the visa extensions quicker!?

[fire_eye]

And a national ID card system is going to solve *THIS* problem??

[tgslTakoma]

Sure it will. Now the terrorists will get their visa extensions in a more timely manner.(barf!)

[Uncle Bill]

This was fixed. This just can't be right. I mean, you know, well, if, well.....

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The U.S. embassy in Jordan restored the visa to Ishaq Farhan, a leader of the Jordanian fundamentalist Islamic Action Front (IAF), the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood. Based on his acts and incitement to terrorism, Mr. Farhan was placed on the State Department's Terrorist Watch List late last year.

US visa procedure to be eased for Pakistanis

U.S. State Department - Pakistan A Terrorist Haven - October 22, 2001

Imaginary National Security

If This Wasn't So Serious It Would Make Good Late Night Comedy

[CyberAnt]

Fire them all and start over!