From: charlie
Date: 10/31/01
Time: 10:36:33 PM
Today is the story of the INS stopping and holding (briefly) 6 Arab men carrying Israeli passports. They also had box cutters, photos of Nuclear plants and the Alaskan pipeline and other "suspicious" equipment.
The INS released these men WITHOUT CONTACTING THE FBI after determining the passports were valid. (most of the hijackers had valid passports as well).
THIS at the time the USA is on heightened ALERTS and nuclear plants are being secured and planes can't fly over them.
Is this incompententcy or something else--like STUPIDITY?
I understand the FBI and the Justice Dept. are FURIOUS!
How can we protect ourselves when such do-dos are handling our security?
NOW of course, they can't FIND these guys.
charlie