Visa Express and Khalid al Mihdar...

If you don't know who Khalid al-Mihdar is, find out immediately. It seems as though he played a large role in the bombing of the USS Cole, and according to the official government story, was one of the hijackers on American Airlines flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon.

He got to this country with a visa issued through a program called "Visa Express" which put Saudis on the fast track to getting US Visas without visiting an embassy or any other US immigration official.

According to this article published by National Review on 14 June 2002:

• Three Saudis who were among the last of the Sept. 11 homicide hijackers to enter this country didn't visit a U.S. embassy or consulate to get their visas; they went to a travel agent, where they only submitted a short, two-page form and a photo.
  
  Three of the 9/11 hijackers entered the U.S. through Visa Express, even though the program had only been in place for three months at that point and that's not the only reason the program raises alarm. Take a sample month: The U.S. consulate in Jeddah interviewed only two of 104 applicants, rejecting none. The month in question? The first 30 days after 9/11.
  

That's right. The program began under the watch of George Bush, and it granted access to 3 of the 9/11 hijackers.

I still don't believe that George Bush orchestrated 9/11, or even knew the specifics of the plot, however it becomes more clear all the time that neither he, nor Bill Clinton, were very interested in taking steps to counter the rapidly growing threat posed by radical islamic jihadists in the months and years before 9/11.

One person who did attempt to sound the alarm bells was a man named John O'Neill. John O'Neill was sent to Yemen to investigate the USS Cole attack, and sometime thereafter dramatically stepped up his efforts to sound the warning bell about bin Laden and al Qaeda. He grew frustrated with the refusal by Clinton and his top advisors to step up anti-terrorism efforts or to carry out a thorough and appropriate response to the Cole bombing.

John O'Neill finally quit the FBI and took the job of World Trade Center security chief. He died on 9/11/2001.

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