Post-9/11 checks for terrorist fliers still miss the mark

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One of the most glaring government lapses on 9/11 occurred when two of the hijackers - Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Al-Midhar - were allowed to board a Washington-to-Los Angeles flight even though both were on a State Department terrorist watch list. The pair helped crash American Flight 77 into the Pentagon (news - web sites).

The Federal Aviation Administration (news - web sites) (FAA (news - web sites)) might have stopped them if it had had access to the list's 60,000 known and suspected terrorists. But it checked passengers only against its own "no-fly" list of a mere 12 suspects, the 9/11 Commission reported last month. The panel called the FAA's meager list and the vast store of other intelligence it could not tap an "astonishing mismatch."

More astonishing is that nearly three years later, air passengers are still not checked against a full list of potential terrorists.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=742&e=1&u=/usatoday/20040806/cm_usatoday/post911checksforterroristfliersstillmissthemark

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1. Bush is tough on terror: You'll just have to trust that he is, for he

says he is, so you'll just have to ignore the record and accept whatever/all he says just as any true-believing ideologue always does.

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2. The Facist American Media says he is; CBS, ABC, MSNBC, NBC, CNN, FOX...

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3. Might we add CNBC with the likes of cuddly Kudlow?