FAA Newsletter Sent to Sept. 11 Hijacker's Old Apartment in Florida

TBO.com ^

[Sub-Driver]

Apr 10, 2002

FAA Newsletter Sent to Sept. 11 Hijacker's Old Apartment in Florida By Coralie Carlson Associated Press Writer

MIAMI (AP) - The Federal Aviation Administration mailed its regional pilots newsletter to one of the Sept. 11 hijackers just last month.

Kathleen Bergen, an FAA spokeswoman in Atlanta, said Wednesday that she did not know why Ziad Samir Jarrah's name had not been removed from the mailing list earlier.

The incident came to light just weeks after it was disclosed that the Immigration and Naturalization Service sent official notice to a Florida flight school six weeks after the attacks that two of the other hijackers had been approved for student visas. The episode embarrassed the INS and prompted a shake-up at the agency.

Jarrah, a 26-year-old from Lebanon, was believed to have piloted United Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania, apparently after the passengers fought back.

The quarterly newsletter addressed to Jarrah was sent to his former apartment near Fort Lauderdale.

The issue happened to contain an American flag and an editorial about the World Trade Center attack that said: "We hope for justice to be served to those individuals who horrified our great nation."

The newsletter comes from the agency's Oklahoma City office and is mailed to pilots in five Florida counties, Bergen said. It typically contains reports on local crashes and the lessons to be learned from them.

"It's something completely innocuous," Bergen said of the mailing, which is also available online.

Jarrah is the only one of the 19 hijackers known to be on the mailing list, Bergen said. The FAA's mailing list for its regional newsletters includes the nation's 625,600 pilots, she said.

---

On the Net:

Federal Aviation Administration: http://www.faa.gov

AP-ES-04-10-02 1307EDT

This story can be found at : http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAYK7VFVZC.html

[Sub-Driver]

inept...........

[Blood of Tyrants]

Kathleen Bergen, an FAA spokeswoman in Atlanta, said Wednesday that she did not know why Ziad Samir Jarrah's name had not been removed from the mailing list earlier.

I'll tell you why. Because government employees in general are lazy, incompetent morons.

[Black Agnes]

unbelieveable

[Black Agnes]

government employees in general are lazy, incompetent morons.

Who can nonetheless be trusted with ALL your most personal private information because hey, if you have nothing to hide..../sarcasm

[Kobyashi1942]

..Criminally inept that is. Notice how no one in gov. is held accountable for this events and other around 9.11.?

[SunStar]

First the INS, now the FAA... Is our government completely out of control.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

You'd be hard pressed to find a government agency that does any better. Once you get on a federal mailing list, YOU HAVE MAIL !

[vrwinger]

The FAA's mailing list for its regional newsletters includes the nation's 625,600 pilots, she said.

Amazing! For a mailing list of well over a half a million names to have only one error is remarkable!! What's that you ask? Could this mailing list contain other incorrect names? Well, I suppose it could, but the fact that the name of a deceased person remains on this list (no matter how notorious) six months after their death is apparently news becasue it is the only time it has ever happened...

(and please don't equate this with the Visa approvals... A2O, IMO)

[weegee]

They should be running those names (these aren't aliases that are being used) through the systems and see just where they pop up. That they haven't done this legwork 6 months out is embarassing.

[weegee]

What does the current resident write on such misdelivered mail?

"Not at this address, dead by suicide attack on WTC - Return to sender"???

[vrwinger]

If accuracy and/or common sense were the driving priorities in maintaining mailing lists, I would agree... However, mailing lists, sadly, are for selling and making money from... A dead terrorist matters little in this perspective...