[Irene Adler]

After this guy talked about slashing the USDA official's throat and stealing money from her safe and also destroying government buildings, threw money at her in an attempt to purchase an arial photo of Wash. DC she didn't want to sell, plus acted generally scary and spooky, she didn't even let ANYBODY know about this attempt by a non-citizen to get loan money from the US govt. to finance the purchase of an airplane with a huge "chemical tank"?

Maybe this is normal behavior for people trying to get USDA loans.

[Shermy]

I have strong suspicions about this story, including adding of info for self-importance reasons. Atta admitted he was in Al Qaeda? What?

Also want to know the spin about "cropdusters" as bombs, rather than spreading anthrax or pesticides converted into crude nerve agents. Moussaoui was caught with wind pattern info. Many showed interest in cropdusters close to 9/11. Want to know the source of this Zabadiyah speculation. Could be true. But interests served by deflecting the threat would be the various industries related to agricultre.

[The Old Hoosier]

You know, I have a feeling she's making up more than a small bit of this story. I can't imagine Atta would be so incompetent.

[VOA]

...she didn't even let ANYBODY know about this attempt by a non-citizen to get loan
money from the US govt. to finance the purchase of an airplane with a huge "chemical tank"?

I think the answer is below...she's a typical government employee.

Atta also talked about life in his country. "He mentioned al Qaeda, he mentioned
Osama bin Laden," said Bryant. "I didn't know who Osama bin Laden was …
He could have been a character on Star Wars for all I knew."

I'm pretty sure that Osama was mentioned in the news more than a few times before
9-11; what we have here is a regular governmental functionary.
Fortunately the system accidentally worked and he didn't get his loan to
build his anthrax delivery system...oops, I forgot, all that anthrax stuff is the
product of domestic right-wing nuts.