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To: ~digs who wrote (17644)1/28/2004 11:56:55 AM
From: Bucky Katt  Read Replies (3) of 48461
 
This is very, very disturbing>>

From the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks>>

Other preliminary findings disclosed Tuesday by the commission:

The commission provided documents showing the FAA was aware of the possibility of suicide hijackings but did not pass the information along to airlines.

*Nine of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers had been stopped by the airlines for additional security screening.

*Weaknesses in airport screening of carry-on baggage in the 20 years before 2001 were rampant and widely reported, which the hijackers apparently used to their advantage.
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Also Tuesday, staff reports presented to the commission--formally known as the Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States--showed that by 7:35 a.m. on Sept. 11, all five hijackers on American Airlines Flight 77 had been tagged by a passenger prescreening program as "a risk to aircraft safety," and four of them had set off metal detector alarms at airport checkpoints, Newsday reported.

But even after those red flags and some additional screening at Dulles International Airport in Virginia, all five were allowed to board Flight 77, which they hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon.

Commission members also asked for an extension of their May 27 deadline, saying they needed more time to review records and hear testimony. Congressional Democrats voiced their support of such a delay, but President Bush and Republican congressional leaders have said they would oppose it.

Republican officials say a delay would put the release of the report too close to elections.

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chicagotribune.com
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