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OC
03-13-2002, 07:35 AM
MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Six months to the day after Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi flew planes into the World Trade Center, the Immigration and Naturalization Service notified a Venice, Florida, flight school that the two men had been approved for student visas.

Rudi Dekkers of Huffman Aviation, where Atta, 33, and Al-Shehhi, 23, first trained in July 2000, showed the yellow INS forms to CNN during an interview Monday. Dekkers said he was surprised to get the forms at such a late date.

The INS had a different reaction.

"I think it is certainly embarrassing that the letters show up at this late date," said INS spokesman Russ Bergeron. "It does serve to illustrate what we have been saying since 1995 -- that the current system for collecting information and tracking foreign students is antiquated, outdated, inaccurate and untimely."

YA THINK!?!?

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/03/12/inv.flight.school.visas/index.html
Nija
03-13-2002, 07:37 AM
woohoo..... more student visas.....


oh wait... i don't like these people... nevermind
attgig
03-13-2002, 07:42 AM
oh boy...
now the whole visa people are gonna get a butt whoopin by the media and bigger government people...


:bash: :boxing: :poke:
topane
03-13-2002, 07:48 AM
Originally posted by attgig
oh boy...
now the whole visa people are gonna get a butt whoopin by the media and bigger government people... Yeah, with more government people working on it I'm sure they'll become more efficient and less error-prone.
OC
03-13-2002, 08:38 AM
There's "working hard" and "working smart" - this was neither.

Idiots, all.

-OC
whitak24
03-13-2002, 10:43 AM
Originally posted by topane
Yeah, with more government people working on it I'm sure they'll become more efficient and less error-prone.
:heh:

yeah, i think there is a slight problem with the system if no one thought to pull their applications after sept. 11 :rolleyes:
Merlin
03-13-2002, 12:01 PM
Just heard on Bloomberg news that the President knows about this and is pretty pissed. He has sent Ashcroft to look into it. Sounds like a can of a$$whip about to be opened.
topane
03-13-2002, 12:06 PM
Originally posted by Merlin
Just heard on Bloomberg news that the President knows about this and is pretty pissed. He has sent Ashcroft to look into it. Sounds like a can of a$$whip about to be opened. Maybe Asscroft will torture the offenders with his singing.
Markel
03-13-2002, 12:07 PM
I think the forums are messed up. This title is appearing double in the threads list. :heh:
Hiro
03-13-2002, 12:17 PM
Originally posted by overclocked
There's "working hard" and "working smart" - this was neither.
or "Hardly-Working". I think this one falls into that category.
brainsmile
03-13-2002, 12:20 PM
so who's to blame?