[nutmeg]

Incredible Mark Steyn article from June 10, 2002, and re-posted on FR on November 10, 2009. Ties in perfectly with the Fort Hood terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan situation.

Thanks, beaversmom, for re-posting this article. Political correctness is literally continuing to kill innocent Americans.

Excerpt:

But Ms. Bryant didn't think Mr. Atta was sick. The safe-breaking, the throat- slitting, the fake specs ... why, he was just being charmingly multicultural! "I felt that he was trying to make the cultural leap from the country that he came from," she says. "I was attempting, in every manner I could, to help him make his relocation into our country as easy for him as I could." Unfortunately, his imaginative business plan for a crop-duster capable of crop-dusting Texas was frustrated by the unduly onerous restrictions and bureaucratic torpor of the USDA program. By late summer, Mr. Atta and his chums had concluded the government was never going to buy them their own twin-props and they'd have to make do with the aircraft that were already up there. So they switched their flight training courses from small planes to large jet simulators, and told their instructors to skip all that takeoff and landing stuff.

Original Free Republic thread from 2002: Mark Steyn -- Mohammed Atta and his federal loan officer

Another current (11/16/09) related thread:

How military missed signs (Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan)

[GOPJ]

PC will kill millions - not just a handful at Fort Hood...

[GOPJ]

PC will kill millions - not just a handful at Fort Hood... hold on to your seats, the ride’s just getting started.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[beaversmom]

You are welcome. Thanks for re-pinging it.