Official: FAA Didn't Know Moussaoui's Plans

[Tony_FLADEM]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An aviation security officer testified Wednesday that numerous measures could have been instituted to thwart suicide hijackers had officials known in August 2001 that Zacarias Moussaoui was an al-Qaida member plotting to fly jetliners into U.S. buildings.

Robert Cammaroto, who was in charge of issuing federal security directives to airlines in 2001, said the Federal Aviation Administration could have moved its just-under-three dozen armed federal air marshals from foreign to domestic flights, tightened security checkpoints and directed flight crews to resist rather than cooperate with hijackers. And he said most of these steps could have been ordered by FAA within a matter of hours and remained in effect indefinitely.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060323/ap_on_re_us/moussaoui

[BuyingThyme]

1. I ask again, why is Moussaoui held to a higher standard than

Condoleezza Reich?

[libodem]

2. No kidding...you are entirely correct

never thought of it that way...good thinkin'

[flyarm]

3. I HAVE BEEN SCREAMING THIS SINCE DAY ONE!!

as a flight crew of one of the airlines involved we were trained for the millinium for such a scenerio..we had proceedures in place..but it was mandatory we be given the orders of how to proceed..it worked during the millinium to twart al queada..but * and this administration failed my co-workers, the people in the wtc and it failed the American people..and when in the hell will they be held accountable for their failures instead of being rewarded by the absolute idiots in this nation that cheer these miserable failures on?

i just want one supporter of these murderers to explain to me why and how they can support such miserable failures !
because their bullshit retoric did not keep the people of this nation safe on 9/11 or the lead up to 9/11..they failed miserably and in my belief on purpose!

fly