July 21, 2004

With all this recent discussion of Iran giving safe passage to some of the 9/11 hijackers, including at this site, it's worthwhile to remember that Dulles airport let them pass through too. [Indeed, I think Dulles is in the Virginia district belonging to GOP House Government Reform Chair Tom Davis.]

P.S. Of course, Iranian officials knowingly ordering border control to not stamp al Qaeda operatives' passports with Iran/Afghanistan border exit-entry stamps is qualitatively different from the incompetence at work at US government agencies, border control, airport screening, immigration, the FBI, and the CIA, etc. in terms of not catching the 9/11 al Qaeda operatives living and working and crossing in and out of the US. There's a difference between incompetence and complicity. Will await the 9.11 commission report release later today with interest to understand the level of complicity it judges was at work between Iran and AQ.

Posted by Laura at July 21, 2004 09:07 PM