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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed got a US visa 6 weeks before 9/11 | |
2004-01-27 | |
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged mastermind behind the September 11 plot, was granted a visa to enter the US just six weeks before the terrorist attacks in Washington and New York, according to new revelations from the federal commission studying the attacks. Mr Mohammed, who had previously been indicted in the US for his alleged role in an earlier terrorist plot, was granted a visa through a US consulate in Saudi Arabia after applying under a false Saudi passport using the alias Abdulrahman al Ghamdi, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States said on Monday.
The conclusions may re-open the question of whether intelligence and law enforcement officials could have done more to stop the plot, in spite of previous claims that most of the hijackers had no record of association with terrorists and thus were unlikely to be identified. "The director of Central Intelligence described 17 of the 19 hijackers as ’clean’. We believe the information we have provided today gives the commission the opportunity to re-evaluate those statements," the commission’s staff said. | |
Posted by:Dan Darling |
#4 When he got jugged, does that automatically open up a slot for another jihadi? Isn't there some woman in the State Department that specializes in Visas for the |
Posted by: Super Hose 2004-1-27 11:39:18 AM |
#3 The director of Central Intelligence described 17 of the 19 hijackers as ’clean’. I would like to know their stated purposes for visiting the United States. To visit friends or relatives? Tourism? No stated purpose at all? Can Americans obtain visas to visit Saudi Arabia just as easily? I don't think so. We need to introduce the principle of reciprocity into our visa relationship with Saudi Arabia. I also think we ought to introduce a male-female quota system. The number of visas that we issue to Saudi males ought to be kept in proportion to the number of visas that we issue to Saudi females. |
Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-1-27 8:31:22 AM |
#2 does maura harty like hairy 'rabs? |
Posted by: SON OF TOLUI 2004-1-27 12:54:47 AM |
#1 alias Abdulrahman al Ghamdi That's interesting. |
Posted by: Pete Stanley 2004-1-27 12:24:56 AM |