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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-04 11:18 AM
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Clues Missed on 9/11 Plotters
WASHINGTON — Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, plot, obtained a visa to come to the United States just weeks before the attacks despite being under a federal terrorism indictment, a report by the federal commission investigating the attacks revealed Monday.

And as many as eight of the hijackers entered the country with doctored passports that contained "clues to their association with Al Qaeda" that should have been caught by immigration authorities, commission investigators said.

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"The bottom line: He gave me the chills," Melendez-Perez said, describing Al-Qahtani as well groomed, "combative" and in "impeccable shape."

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Citing that Atta connection and other information the panel could not disclose, Commissioner Richard Ben-Veniste said: "It is extremely possible and perhaps probable that was to be the 20th hijacker."


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-terror27jan27,1,1929603.story?coll=la-home-nation
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-04 11:38 AM
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1. What I find peculiar is that none of them applied for a gun permit.
They lived all the aspects of the American life, but they didn't apply for a gun permit. Could that be because background checks work?
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RH Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-04 10:03 PM
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3. Or could it be
that nobody checked to see if any of them did apply for a gun permit?

:cry:



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medienanalyse Donating Member (727 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-04 11:51 AM
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2. they could not connect the dots
these idiots ****yawn******snore
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