Word: visas
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Moussaoui made his first visit to Afghan training camps run by bin Laden, visits that continued through 1996. And Moussaoui began recruiting other young Muslims to fight for Islam in Chechnya and Kosovo. Moussaoui finally set down in the U.S. in February using an entry visa obtained in Pakistan...
Some of the men seemed to use the same Visa card, on which they rang up substantial charges, and gave the same Mail Boxes Etc. addresses, especially toward the last days of their lives. On attack day, four to seven cross-country tickets were billed to the same card. The same card number showed up on the rental contract for a car the hijackers left at Logan Airport and for a Boston hotel room some slept in. The pile of credit-card receipts, rental-car contracts, hotel bills and airline tickets tracks their movements as they eventually made their...
...anti-governmental stances, Fo was forbidden a visa to enter the United States throughout the 1970s and during most of the Regan administration. It wasn’t until 1986 that Robert Brustein, artistic director of the American Repertory Theater, succeeded in bringing the great Italian playwright and performer to American shores for the first time. True to form, Fo thanked President Regan for generating publicity by keeping him out of the country...
...Elizabeth Rosenthal’s Sept. 9 New York Times article, she wrote, “In a year in which record numbers of Chinese have applied for visas—and been rejected —the American Embassy visa section [in Beijing] has suddenly become a focal point of anti-American resentment, its decisions derided as arbitrary and unfair...
Those actions were: Felipe Almonte reportedly brought Danny to the U.S. from the Dominican Republic in June 2000 on a 12-month tourist visa, which would mean that for most of this season of his greatest baseball success, Danny was in the country illegally. His father held a birth certificate indicating his boy was born on April 7, 1989, and was therefore eligible for 12-and-under Little League play. Danny pitched for the Paulino team in the summer of 2000, and his performance--he had a real curveball to go along with his nasty heater--as well...