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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-27-08 05:28 PM
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9/11 Redux (ABC): 'Thousands of Aliens' in U.S. Flight Schools Illegally
Edited on Wed Feb-27-08 05:29 PM by kpete
9/11 Redux: 'Thousands of Aliens' in U.S. Flight Schools Illegally

Former FAA Inspector: TSA's Enforcement of Post-9/11 Laws 'Basically Nonexistent'
By BRIAN ROSS, VIC WALTER and ERIC LONGABARDI
Feb. 27, 2008—

Thousands of foreign student pilots have been able to enroll and obtain pilot licenses from U.S. flight schools, despite tough laws passed in the wake of the 9/ll attacks, according to internal government documents obtained by ABC News.

"Some of the very same conditions that allowed the 9-11 tragedy to happen in the first place are still very much in existence today," wrote one regional security official to his boss at the TSA, the Transportation Security Administration.

"Thousands of aliens, some of whom may very well pose a threat to this country, are taking flight lessons, being granted FAA certifications and are flying planes," wrote the TSA official, Richard A. Horn, in 2005, complaining that the students did not have the proper visas

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http://www.abcnews.go.com/print?id=4353991
http://www.americablog.com/2008/02/911-redux-thousands-of-aliens-in-us.html
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1. "But my Homelander Security is doing a heckuva job. Smirk." - Commander AWOL
Edited on Wed Feb-27-08 05:35 PM by SpiralHawk
"...keeping tabs on all you free thinkers out there. Smirk. We got your number, and the day will come....Smirk."

- Commander AWOL,
Of the Occult Skull & Boner Squadron,
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