On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 00:56:26 -0700, "Gary L. Dare"
wrote:

Marie Lewis wrote:

They were not going to the USA, or even entering Spain. They lived there.
Like the 911 culprits. And they had full visas.



Actually, better than the 9/11 culprits since some of the Spain conspirators
are/were permanent residents or naturalized citizens, plus a couple of
native Spaniards of the criminal persuasion who supplied them but did
not know what the ultimate goal was.

The 9/11 culprits had visitor visa overstayers as well as some on valid
visas.

I don't know if the news ever made it across the pond but the US has
seen nearly 40 US citizens convicted in terror-related cases including
the "Portland Seven" and the "Buffalo Eight" - 14 out of 15 were born
Americans, native-born like the eight apprehended last week in the UK
and the one in Canada ... Even with electronic monitoring by all of
the wealthy countries, all would have been allowed entry to home.

gld


Here's a couple of ways the CIA and FBI failed the public.

I don't believe that the CIA and FBI had hardly enough Arab
translators.

All the FBI is concerned with is a quick criminal prosecution. The FBI
should have made an attempt to turn one or more of the Buffalo Eight
in order to gather intelligence on Al Quada.