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To: calgal who wrote (42)	3/13/2002 9:21:17 AM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Respond to of 150

Terrorist Pilots' Student Visas Arrive Officials Blame 'Antiquated' System for Delay of Paperwork washingtonpost.com Exactly six months after terrorists Mohamed Atta and Marwan Alshehhi flew two jetliners into the World Trade Center, the Florida flight school that trained the men received paperwork showing that their student visas had been approved. The two suicide hijackers had applied for the visas through their flight school, Huffman Aviation International, in August 2000. But because of backlogs and an antiquated processing system at the Immigration and Naturalization Service, notification of the approval did not arrive at the Venice, Fla., flight school until Monday. The belated receipt of the documents underscores the chronic problems that continue to plague the beleaguered INS -- the target of strenuous reform efforts since the Sept. 11 attacks -- and prompted howls of outrage yesterday from Capitol Hill. "This shows once again the complete incompetence of the immigration service to enforce our laws and protect our borders," said Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis.), who has co-sponsored legislation to break up the agency. "If you look at the chronology of this, it shows why the INS has to be dismantled and put back together again." INS and Justice Department officials acknowledged yesterday that the delayed mailings were embarrassing, but stressed that the change to student visas for Atta and Alshehhi was actually approved last summer. The pair had entered the United States on tourist visas.

To: calgal who wrote (42)	4/1/2002 6:25:07 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 150

Israeli Troops Kick CBS Out JERUSALEM –– Israeli forces expelled a CBS News television crew from Ramallah on Monday as troops continued to occupy the West Bank city and search for militants. The Foreign Press Association in Israel protested the expulsion of the crew and the military's attempt to make the entire city off limits to the media. Kate Rydell, the producer of the CBS crew that entered Ramallah on Sunday, said they were packing their gear Monday when about seven Israeli jeeps pulled up. "They took up positions along the street with their rifles at the ready," she said. "Two of them came up and asked to see passports." She said the soldiers said the area was a closed military zone and escorted the crew out of the city. The soldiers did not confiscate any material or equipment and made no threats, she said. Ramallah, the Palestinian Authority's administrative center in the West Bank, was declared a closed military zone by Israel last Friday, when the Israeli army occupied it after a series of Palestinian attacks in Israel. But the measure was only sporadically enforced, and journalists and other foreigners were able to get in as late as Sunday morning. Israel has warned that foreign journalists were at risk in the West Bank city. On Sunday, Boston Globe reporter Anthony Shadid was shot and wounded in the shoulder while in Ramallah. He was taken to a Ramallah hospital and then to Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem, where he was recovering, hospital spokesman Ron Kromer said Monday. washingtonpost.com