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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Selectric II who wrote (20127)	11/15/2001 5:15:45 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 59480

What would have kept him from getting in? And if we had a dossier on him, he wouldn't have gotten in, right? You've just answered part of your question about the benefits of the ID. Yes, we don't give visas to people on whom we have a file. Yes, Atta may still get in because we may not have a file. That's where the one-two punch comes in. We get to check his ID. If his visa is expired, he doesn't get to get on an airplane. He gets shipped out of the country. Period. Or, if his visa is current, he is allowed on the plane, but with a more scrupulous search. because he doesn't have a national ID. Several people of the same ethnicity without national ID traveling on the same plane would draw attention. Maybe they would be kept off, or maybe an extra marshal would be assigned to ride along and everyone would be wary of the group. It probably wouldn't have gotten that far because Atta would have been at least flagged when he took that half-baked flight training and he'd have a file. I think that combination of safeguards provides an excellent chance of stopping the hijack. You can't exclude outliers from an airplane unless you can identify all the regulars. The ID is the two in the one-two punch. Karen