Agency says woman was on terror watch list, then retracts

[rainbow4321]

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D87JBNIO0.html


After months of denying that a woman who snuck across the Mexican border was on a government watch list, federal officials said this week that she was indeed wanted for questioning in a bombing.

But then they quickly said that announcement was a mistake, and that she wasn't wanted for that after all.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, in its year-end report, said Farida Goolam Mahomed Ahmed was arrested in McAllen because of passport irregularities in July. "Further research indicated that the passenger was wanted for questioning for involvement in the bombing of a US Consulate office," the first news release issued Tuesday said.

That jibes with what U.S. Rep. Solomon Ortiz, D-Corpus Christi, and a top law-enforcement official said at the time. Ortiz insisted the that Ahmed, who had a South African passport, was reported to be on a watch list for potential terrorists. Federal officials continually denied that. In the second news release issued a short time later, the reference to Ahmed being wanted for a bombing was omitted.

[Ilsa]

1. Sooooo

she'll be in GITMO until 2099 until they figure this out for certain? I'm still confused. Does she get to leave or go home, wherever that is?

[ogradda]

2. do they know what the hell they're doing??

nnnoooo.....