Sept. 11 Fake ID Suspect Flees U.S.

AP | 7/31/02

[Destro]

Mohamad El Atriss was very active in aiding Kosovo Albanian and Bosnian refugees especially the Albanians that were taken to the US Fort Dix in Jersey.

You fill in the blanks....

[Fred Mertz]

Do you think, on your own, that you can protect yourself from an attack like 9/11??

I think that if I have my faith, my dog and my baseball bat no one can touch me.

You still want the feds? I don't.

[Destro]

boo!

[Itzlzha]

What people here do not realize is that there is NO DIRECT flight to Egypt from the US.
Brittish Airways to Heathrow, and Lufthansa to Frankfurt are the ONLY options out of Newark and JFK. (God, I love having a fiancee who knows airline info!)

So, if they knew he got out 6 hours earlier, there should have been a WARM reception at either location...hence the comment I heard that he's on his way back as we read this...

I'm interested in which airline he used, and what hoops he jumped thru to get a last minute out ticket, as those are now FLAGGED...someone needs to research THAT connection!
MAJOR strings were pulled here...

Nice to see the INS/FBI or whoever it was in this Country that tipped him off are SO CONCERNED with OUR safety...

Death is TOO GOOD for traitors and spies!

[stylin19a]

I should know better. Thank you. I stand corrected.

[willyone]

Too busy checking old ladies and babies. Anyone who thinks that we will win the so called WOT is fooling themselves. We are lucky that for whatever reason there have been no more attacks.

[willyone]

Homeland Security. Are you mentally challenged? Who's homeland? The one that will soon belong to the millions of illegals that both parties want to swamp us with? You have no homeland anymore. You are just a shopper in the huge Wal Mart that the US has become. We are no longer citizens just shoppers. Walking,talking ATMs who exist to serve their masters.

[willyone]

You are very funny. These dickheads could not catch a cold.

[Jubal Harshaw]

There's no reason why the U.S. could not exert pressure on Egypt to send this bastard back

Finding a prominent diplomat is one thing. Finding a single "ordinary" guy in the hot, dusty rabbit warren that is Cairo is quite another. Ordinary Egyptians have almost no credit card use, little legal / registered ownership of land, widespread corruption in the issuance of whatever few licences (driver's licence, etc) anyone might want to get, no ID checks in hotels ... there's no way to track someone down who doesn't want to be tracked. If he actually made it to Egypt (instead of being secretly detained along the way) that guy is GONE.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

How the hell was he able to get on a plane? Homeland security, yah. V's wife. 2 posted on 7/31/02 11:13 AM Pacific by ventana

Good question. "Paging Tom Ridge..."

There is a very sensible approach that needs to be taken with foreign nationals from hostile Middle Eastern countries. They should have to report in to the police (FBI or INS)once a month to renew their visas and give an account of the nature of their activities in the U.S. Fingerprinting ought to be part of this. The boys and girls in Washington have wasted enough time debating national IDs for normal Americans, it's time to get tough on the aliens in question, i.e., those from established hostile nations known for extremism and terrorism. This is just common sense. One wonders sometimes what our taxes are paying for when protecting us from enemies foreign and domestic doesn't seem to be getting through to competent adults.

[null and void]

Your position of depending on biometric ID is like the battered wife who thinks a restraining order will protect her.

Lots of dead women in that group...

[piasa]

I'm more afraid of liberal-socialists with the technology than I am of terrorists getting in for the lack of it.

[sleavelessinseattle]

They ought to track down the leak and make the leaker serve the sentence. There is no less than a "spy" in the organization.

If they don't bring this guy back from Saudiland to stand trial...I say we just remove the puppet government there while we're uprooting the countryside of Iraq for Sodamn INSANE. I've waited long enough for a condemnation of suiciders and denial of Israel's right to exist...if they harbor terrorists THEY ARE TERRORISTS... I WANT A PIECE OF THE ROCK!!!

[weegee]

Any biometric should be something only used to confirm identity (like retina scan, not fingerprints). Any workable system would require a database computer to check against the person posting the "ID" (although the card/passport becomes irrelevant at that point) (e.g. Scan the eyeball "live" and compare it to the file).

Perhaps some corrupt officials would try to insert false identities in the computer but the system could perform "offline" comparisons of the data for any duplicate entries (multiple IDs).

And if you are not in the system, deny boarding privillages or entry into our country.

[philosofy123]

You proved my point. If he was working with the CIA to help the Moslems in Kosovo, we need to replace the CIA with a better organization, perhaps one that have more intelligence than a monkey!

[OldFriend]

False reports last nite that the man was on the way back to the States.............this is just so unbelievable screwed up..............pitiful in the extreme.

[Tunehead54]

And you'll notice that he got on a plane and left the country hours before they were set to raid his home. In other words, he was tipped off.

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I was thinking that the Fibbies might have tipped themselves off. First they get him the high speed embossing copier then presumably other agents try out his services at his "store".

Maybe he cranked out the needed IDs and headed east to hand'em out ... Thanks to the FBI they should be pretty good fakes. Sigh.

[steve-b]

Your position of depending on biometric ID is like the battered wife who thinks a restraining order will protect her.

I notice that joyful1 is too cowardly to address my repeated reminder of the one thing that will protect a battered wife, or an American citizen in general.