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27 With Terrorist Links Held F.A.A. Licenses, Report Says
nytimes ^ | July 29, 2011 | MATTHEW L. WALD

Posted on 08/03/2011 12:01:18 PM PDT by opentalk

The Transportation Security Administration cannot determine the real identities of thousands of the people to whom the Federal Aviation Administration has issued licenses as pilots and aircraft mechanics, but has located an additional 27 who should not have held them because of terrorist connections, according to an internal report by the Department of Homeland Security.

...The report was requested two years ago by four senators after a private data analysis company in New York determined that the man convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 still held an F.A.A. license, as did a man caught trying to smuggle military equipment to Hezbollah in Lebanon

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TOPICS: Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: faa; pilotslicense; tsa; wot

1 posted on 08/03/2011 12:01:20 PM PDT by opentalk
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To: opentalk

...and invaders of the soverign United States can live here with the full support and protection of the Federal government too....fully unidentified and falsely identified.


2 posted on 08/03/2011 12:05:37 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: opentalk

“connections” and “links” to people “suspected” of terrorism.

How many degrees of separation does it take?

If I know a neighbor who knows a TEA Party activist, am I then “linked” to a terrorist?

Note that they don’t say “associated with”, since here in America we have a guarantee of freedom of association.

Our president is linked and connected to known terrorists who have actually committed bombings and robberies to support criminal activities, can he get an FAA license?


3 posted on 08/03/2011 12:11:15 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: EagleUSA

...And if our states try to do anything about it, they get sued courtesy of Eric Holder.


4 posted on 08/03/2011 12:14:32 PM PDT by lone star annie
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To: EagleUSA
--The TSA admits they can’t even determine the real identities of THOUSANDS to whom the FAA granted these licenses.

crazy irresponsible

5 posted on 08/03/2011 12:15:38 PM PDT by opentalk
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To: opentalk

Sure, Tea Party people have licenses.


6 posted on 08/03/2011 12:17:46 PM PDT by SkyDancer (You know, they invented wheelbarrows to teach government employees how to walk on their hind legs.)
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To: DBrow

can he get an FAA license?...Sure. Just get a different Birth Certificate.


7 posted on 08/03/2011 12:37:56 PM PDT by Safetgiver (I'd rather die under a free American sky than live under a Socialist regime.)
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To: opentalk
Aircraft mechanics aren't licensed.
8 posted on 08/03/2011 2:23:50 PM PDT by deadsteve (Part 65 or part 641/2)
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To: deadsteve

“Aircraft mechanics aren’t licensed.”

Wrong. Aviation mechanics ARE licensed.

See:

http://www.airframeandpowerplant.com/faq.htm


9 posted on 08/03/2011 2:34:43 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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