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...been getting on this plane, you know, for 42 years. Why can't I get on the plane?" TED KENNEDY, Senator from Massachusetts, recounting his pleas to airline agents who had blocked him from boarding flights because his name resembled an alias of a suspected terrorist...
...addition to the yet-unclassified report on aviation security, the commission may later release a report by an outside consultant on the history of terrorist attacks for a period of time up to Sept...
...companions, but ended up with the INS discovering Atta himself had improperly received an eight-month visa, until Sept. 8, 2001, that was then rolled back to July 9. INS personnel who dealt with the Atta group then could not identify one of the men with him. But the ?Terrorist Travel? staff monograph released yesterday said that, based on other evidence, the commission believes that fellow hijacker Ziad Jarrah ?may have been? with Atta...
...other monograph, on terrorist financing, reveals a financial connection between hijacker Nawaf al-Hazmi and Saudi national Yazeed al-Salmi, who was among the hundreds of foreign nationals detained in the United States in the aftermath of the attacks. Although he underwent extensive questioning by the FBI, Salmi never disclosed that he gave future hijacker Hazmi $1,900 in travelers checks in September 2000, according to the commission. The report says investigators learned of the connection later, after Salmi had been deported, when a check of Hazmi's back records showed that in September 2000 he deposited...
...when they do so to defend the world from their attacks. It should not be a war of preemption against a list of potential adversaries; it should be a program of crucial preemptive action against the poverty, ignorance and political oppression which create the conditions under which terrorist groups thrive...