He may have had different roles and history besides the Minnesota incident. He may have not been planned to go on the 9/11 planes - or something else that day.
I have yet to see any journalist ask why the cropduster allegations were dropped from the complaint against him...too troubling to reveal to the people their use as chemical weapons - he did have wind pattern maps.? Might warnings to the American people, which we deserve, impinge on the profits of some industry?
C'mon, Shermy, you know better than that.
The feds don't want to make an issue of the anthrax angle or promote any fear of a "sleeper-mounted" broadspread biological attack.
Until, that is, we are prepared to a.) smash Saddam with one lightning blow and b.) insure that the domestic consequences of doing so are mimimized. Meanwhile, the administration's reluctance to broach this subject is perfectly understandable.
Possibly those charges were dropped simply because there was no evidence of a connection to criminal activity. The U.S. government is treating the Moussaoui case as a criminal case, not as a military incident. After all, owning wind pattern maps isn't illegal per se.