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<P><A name=5>5. <B>Bush orders broad review of INS operations</B></A><BR>By
Kellie Lunney
<P>President Bush has ordered a sweeping review of the Immigration and
Naturalization Service after a Florida flight school received copies of visa
approvals for two terrorists involved in the Sept. 11 attacks.
<P>Bush directed the Justice Department's inspector general to investigate
record-keeping and mailing procedures at the INS to discover why the agency sent
letters confirming its approval of student visas for terrorists Mohamed Atta and
Marwan Alshehhi to attend a Venice, Fla., flight school after the Sept. 11
attacks. INS approved the visas before the terrorist attacks, but schools
usually receive confirmation letters later, after an agency contractor enters
the data manually into a computer system. The flight school received the
documents on March 11-exactly six months after the attacks.
<P>"It is inexcusable when document mismanagement leads to a breakdown of this
magnitude," said Attorney General John Ashcroft in a statement. "Individuals
will be held responsible for any professional incompetence that led to this
failure, and inferior INS quality-control mechanisms will be reformed."
<P>Full story: <A
href="http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0302/031402m1.htm">http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0302/031402m1.htm</A>
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<DIV>_____________<BR>Lutfi M. Hussein<BR>Department of English<BR>Arizona State
University<BR>Tempe, AZ 85287-0302, USA<BR>Email address: <A
href="mailto:lutfi.hussein@asu.edu">lutfi.hussein@asu.edu</A><BR>Homepage: <A
href="http://www.public.asu.edu/~lutfiawa/">http://www.public.asu.edu/~lutfiawa/</A></DIV></BODY></HTML>