Private Planes: Freedom, Security, and Responsibility

On 2005-12-15, Skylune wrote:
Why? Jim M stated that flight schools are now required to verify US
citizenship, and not train non-citizens until they are approved by TSA.
If this is true, why would the terrorists have been approved?

At the time, they were legally in the United States, and none of them
had a criminal background or other background that said 'terrorist'. Had
that condition existed, the people behind the attacks would have made
doubly sure the people used for the mission were squeaky clean. Only if
the US said "All foreigners are banned from flight training" would a
plan like this not worked - well, not worked in the same way (they would
have just trained in Canada instead, or perhaps any number of
countries). Or found a Timothy McVeigh type - it's not that far fetched,
there was an extensive radio programme about one of the London bombers
from July 7th, the remarkable thing about this bomber is that he was not
at all religious to start with and became radicalised only in the last
few years (and even his WIFE didn't know what he was planning or that he
was capable of such an act).

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