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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: PROLIFE who wrote (184242)9/20/2001 5:33:24 PM
From: Skywatcher  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
THE INVESTIGATION
'Watch List' Didn't Get to Airline
Security: Federal authorities were suspicious of two hijackers, but warning wasn't shared.
By DAVID WILLMAN and ALAN C. MILLER, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
WASHINGTON -- Federal law enforcement authorities did not notify
American Airlines that two men with links to terrorist Osama bin Laden
were on a "watch list" before they helped hijack a flight from Dulles
International Airport last week, according to individuals with direct
knowledge of the matter.
Even before they had reserved their tickets for the Los Angeles-bound
flight that crashed into the Pentagon, Khalid Al-Midhar and Nawaq
Alhamzi were known to federal law enforcement authorities.
Neither the FBI nor other authorities, who had identified them as
possible terrorist figures and placed them on a watch list, signaled any
concern about the two men to the airline, according to the sources.
Watch lists are intended to allow a number of federal law enforcement
agencies to run names of people entering the U.S. with the aim of
questioning or detaining potential terrorists or other criminals. Critics say the government and the airline industry ought to have a better system for distributing information about suspected terrorists.

another feather in the cap of the "intelligence" community?
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