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Originally posted by Grojlach:
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And did you see how many of the original hijackers were in the country illegally?
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I suppose that's exactly why I added "since 9/11" to my statement.
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as many of the posters there mentioned INS is swamped and can't control the situation with illegals, and thanks to the ACLU police aren't even allowed to inquire about whether people in the country are legal. To look at the passport and try and do anything about it would invite another federal beurocracy to take over that in all likelihood would have turned them out on the street because they're overworked, understaffed, and have little to no available space to keep them until trial.
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Well, I'll have to take your word for it, then. Though despite the fact that there's a chance their visas won't be checked, there's still a chance that they will be checked - and if you're really trying to prepare a terrorist attack, I reckon you'd want to make sure you can't be thwarted by such an element. Ah well, or perhaps I'm simply overestimating terrorists' cunning in general. [/QUOTE]I think it's rather a case of overestimating the security offered by our gov't, if they were innocent (which current info about the story seems to corroborate), there is still no guarantee that they weren't still doing a dry run, and phoning/faxing/emailing/etc the info back to their friends who do have ties to groups that are interested in how extensive security checks on aircraft are.