- Jeff,
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- This one's flying under the radar, but according to an
AP report today:
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- "CBS News reported, meanwhile, that a passport belonging
to one of the hijackers, Satam al-Sugami, was found on the street minutes
after the plane he was aboard crashed into the north tower of the World
Trade Center and before the New York landmark collapsed."
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- Amazing stuff! This is yet another "magic passport"
found in the rubble in addition to "mastermind" Mohamed Atta's
discovered passport at the WTC site.
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- Let's see if I can get this straight:
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- 1. The fireballs of the WTC attacks melted structural
steel that was designed to withstand heat of 2000 degrees F.
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- 2. The fireballs of the WTC attacks completely destroyed
both airplanes cockpit voice-recorders (situated at front)*and* the black-box
data recorders (located in the rear of the aircraft).
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- 3. The fireballs of the WTC attacks vaporized human bone
and flesh.
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- 4. And yet those same fireballs somehow weren't strong
enough to do anything to a pair of surviving passportsfound in pristine
condition. No surface scratches, scuffs, abrasions or burns. Perfect.
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- My Question: Why doesn't Boeing design a new black-box
data recorder manufactured from the same indestructible material used to
produce magical Saudi passports?
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- Probe - 911 Hijackers Exploited Security Gaps
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- 1-27-3
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- WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. authorities missed some obvious
signs that might have prevented some of the Sept. 11 hijackers from entering
the country, the federal commission investigating the attacks said Monday.
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- Government officials have said the 19 hijackers entered
the country legally, but the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon
the United States said its investigation found at least two and as many
as eight had fraudulent visas. The commission also found examples where
U.S. officials had contact with the hijackers but failed to adequately
investigate suspicious behavior. For example, Saeed al Ghamdi was referred
to immigration inspection officials in June 2001 after he provided no address
on his customs form and only had a one-way plane ticket and about $500.
Al Ghamdi was able to persuade the inspector that he was a tourist.
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- The panel also found that six of the hijackers violated
immigration laws by overstaying their visas or failing to attend the English
language school for which their visas were issued.
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- And Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, believed to be the mastermind
of the Sept. 11 attacks, exploited the fact that customs officers did not
routinely collect fingerprints for a visa even though federal authorities
in New York indicted him in 1996 for his role in earlier terrorist plots.
He never entered the country and was apprehended after the attacks.
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- CBS News reported, meanwhile, that a passport belonging
to one of the hijackers, Satam al-Sugami, was found on the street minutes
after the plane he was aboard crashed into the north tower of the World
Trade Center and before the New York landmark collapsed.
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- At the start of a two-day hearing on border and aviation
security, the commission staff issued a statement saying FBI Director Robert
Mueller had testified that all of the hijackers came "lawfully from
abroad," while CIA Director George Tenet described 17 of the 19 hijackers
as "clean."
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- For the rest of story: http://www.11alive.com/news/usnews_article.aspx?storyid=42069
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