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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Don Earl who wrote (1731)8/5/2003 1:07:14 AM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 20039
 
Don,

When you "go through.... bookmarks", can you see if you have anything on the 9/11 hijacker's visas and home addresses?

Reason I ask is because of this recent Molly Ivins column:

dfw.com

She writes: My particular bete noire in all this is the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which distinguished itself by granting visas to 15 of the 19 hijackers, who never should have been given visas in the first place.

Their applications were incomplete and incorrect. They were all young, single, unemployed males with no apparent means of support -- the kind considered classic overstay candidates. Had the INS followed its own procedures, 15 of the 19 never would have been admitted.

The incompetence of the INS was underlined when it issued a visa to Mohammad Atta, the lead hijacker, six months after 9/11.


I'm not sure she's got the story right....

I recall reading that the CIA's Jeddah office over-rode the State Dept. in Riyahd on several of the visas, and that two or three of the purported hijackers listed the Pensacola NAS as either their home address or as the address on their vehicle registrations.

Do you recall seeing articles to that effect? The later, regarding the Pensacola addresses, I believe is from Daniel Hopsicker at madcowproductions.com.