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9/11 Commission Noticed That US Border Controls Are a Joke
From National Review OnLine, an article by K. Lloyd Billingsley, editorial director of the Pacific Research Institute. ... 9/11 and Terrorist Travel: Staff Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States was released on August 21, a Saturday and the same day the 9/11 Commission disbanded. In a strange disclaimer, executive director Philip Zelikow says the report "does not necessarily reflect" the views of the commissioners. .... 9/11 and Terrorist Travel confirms that government ignorance, incompetence, and arrogance facilitated Islamic terrorists in their quest to murder Americans. .... All 19 of the hijacker applications were incomplete in some way, with data fields left blank and questions not fully answered. Every application should have been round-filed. Yet U.S. officials approved 22 of the 23 hijacker visa applications. Of the 15 Saudis, four got their visas after the creation of the Visa Express Program in June 2001. Eight other conspirators tried to get visas during the course of the plot. Three succeeded, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11. Mushabib al Hamlan, one of the other two, did not participate. Mohamed al Kahtani, the other, ran into an inspector with Army experience, who thought Kahtani acted like a "hit man" and refused him entry. This unnamed inspector is one of the rare heroes of this report, but readers will get the feeling that many others would have waved Kahtani through. The 9/11 crew knew how to work the ropes and beat a system so porous it doubtless reinforced their conviction that they operated under divine guidance. They received assistance from three illegal Salvadorans, who helped four 9/11 operatives use fraudulent documentation to obtain Virginia identification documents. That vignette should help dispel the notion that massive illegal immigration carries no negative consequences. Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-09-11 |
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