Word: visas
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...commission found that the CIA shares some of the FBI's recessive genes: 18 months passed between the time the agency was told that hijacker Khalid al-Midhar had obtained a U.S. visa and the time the CIA put his name and that of his traveling companion, also a hijacker, on a government watch list. Tenet told his top managers in 1998 that the CIA was "at war" with bin Laden, but the word never really filtered down through the agency, much less to other arms of the intelligence community. The CIA had follow-through problems. The German government gave...
...Nawaf al-Hazmi arrive in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with Khallad bin Attash; they stay with Yazid Sufaat. Suspecting that al-Midhar and al-Hazmi are al-Qaeda members, the CIA monitors them there. From a third country, the CIA learns that al-Midhar's passport contains a U.S. visa. After a few days, the three men leave for Bangkok, where Thai intelligence agents lose them...
...jumbo jets. His teachers discover he has almost no flight knowledge but wants to train on the 747 simulator. The manager reports Moussaoui's suspicious behavior to the local FBI office. Agents question Moussaoui and then have the INS arrest him for staying too long without a visa...
...center changed the landscape of the National Basketball Association with his size and shooting touch, but his team-first attitude and self-deprecating humor have blown through the league like a gust of fresh air, reinvigorating a sport grown weary of spoiled, misbehaving superstars. All-American companies such as Visa, Apple, Pepsi and Reebok have flocked to seek his endorsements, making the Shanghai native, 23, the most recognizable Chinese icon since Chairman...
Yang was tried in Chinese court last August on charges of espionage and visa violations. A verdict was supposed to be issued by December...