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 Post subject: AP News Alert
PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 9:00 pm 
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Surveillance video from Washington's Dulles Airport the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, shows four of the five hijackers being pulled aside to undergo additional scrutiny after setting off metal detectors but then permitted to board the fateful flight that later crashed into the Pentagon.<p>The surveillance video, obtained by The Associated Press, shows an airport screener hand-checking the carryon baggage of one hijacker, Nawaf al-Hazmi, for traces of explosives before letting him continue onto American Airlines Flight 77 with his brother, Salem, a fellow hijacker. ...
No knives or other sharp objects are visible on the surveillance video. But investigators on the commission have said the hijackers at Dulles were believed to be carrying utility knives either personally or in their luggage, which at the time could legally be carried aboard planes.
(AP)<p>***OK. We knew that the hijackers made it through security. It's not news that no traces of explosives were detected. We knew they had some kind of weapon. So where's the news here?***


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 Post subject: Re: AP News Alert
PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 9:02 pm 
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Time's up.
Apparently, the "news" is that AP got a copy of the video.


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 Post subject: Re: AP News Alert
PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 9:25 pm 
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The news is that they were pulled out of line for additional scrutiny. That is news to me, at least.


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 Post subject: Re: AP News Alert
PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 9:44 pm 
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Actually, the AP points out this isn't news ...
Details in the grainy video are difficult to distinguish. But an earlier report by the commission describing activities at Dulles is consistent with the men's procession through airport security as shown on the video.
AP continues to use "grainy" as well, eh? Should be reading TCE ;)


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