Foreign Fighter Fingerprint Database Turns Up U.S. Arrest Records
Officials have found that many of the foreign fighters and detainees they’ve fingerprinted have U.S. arrest records ” many for drunken driving, passing bad checks and traffic violations, and some of them very lengthy……..
……An FBI team sent to Afghanistan in December 2001 interviewed foreign fighters and brought back fingerprint results to the bureau’s criminal biometric database. The team found that for every 100 detainees fingerprinted, at least one came up with an arrest record in the U.S.
One of the men fingerprinted was Mohamed al Qahtani. At the time he was captured, he claimed he was in Afghanistan to learn the art of falconry. But when his fingerprints were traced, it turned out he’d been denied entry into Orlando International Airport in August 2001, just a month before the Sept. 11 attacks. The Sept. 11 commission later identified him as someone who was planning to take part in the attacks. Al Qahtani has been referred to as the 20th hijacker. He’s currently being held in Guantanamo Bay.
July 7, 2008 - 12:01 PM on July 7th, 2008
typical
July 7, 2008 - 05:30 PM on July 7th, 2008
Oh No!!! I thought the Gitmo “detainees” were typically just farmers caught in this mess! At least that’s what we were told.
July 7, 2008 - 08:04 PM on July 7th, 2008
SINCE WHEN HAS THE TRUTH BEEN TOLD???? It is so hard to keep telling a lie, when the truth is the easy button.