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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (186014)	9/24/2001 12:54:59 PM
From: Ga Bard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Whatever ... Back to George Bush. Crop-Dusters Thought to Interest Suspects By Justin Blum and Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, September 24, 2001; Page A01 BELLE GLADE, Fla., Sept. 23 -- The first visit came in February, when three Middle Eastern men drove through the sugar cane fields to the single-runway Belle Glade State Municipal Airport to ask about crop-dusters. How many gallons of fuel can the planes hold, the group's leader asked. How many gallons of chemicals? How fast are they? Are they difficult to fly? During the next seven months, the casually dressed man returned to Belle Glade at least once, workers said, and other groups of Middle Eastern men visited many more times to quiz them about the intricacies of crop-dusters -- with emphasis on how far they can fly and how much poison they can carry. The men often had video or still cameras, taking pictures of the crop-dusters and attempting to photograph the interiors. An airport employee has since identified the first group's leader as Egyptian Mohamed Atta, 33, who the FBI believes was at the controls when an American Airlines flight from Boston slammed into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11. His visits to an obscure airport in rural Florida, combined with other evidence unearthed since the terrorist attacks, have prompted the FBI and other federal agencies to issue warnings about potential chemical or biological weapons attacks from crop-dusters, which are a common sight over farmland throughout rural America. Today, as a result of what sources called a "serious, credible threat," the Federal Aviation Administration grounded crop-dusters for the second time since the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington that left more than 6,000 people missing and presumed dead. "The theory is that they were looking into this as a backup to their main objective, or else as a whole other type of operation that could still be a concern," one U.S. government official said today. "There are certainly enough questions to elevate our concerns." Source: washingtonpost.com P2bAAAT