New York: A New Haven for Terrorists? By Peter Gadiel

The bin Ladin lieutenants who are planning the next set of 9/11attacks must be very happy because the odds of “successfully” carrying out their next plot and committing mass murder in the United States have just improved enormously. Last Friday, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer announced that he would make available to future terrorists the same tools which the 9/11 Commission noted were essential for the success of the conspiracy that killed my son and three thousand others six years ago. Those tools were U.S. drivers’ licenses.

Certain facts about terrorist operations are beyond dispute, and as the 9/11 Commission noted, one is that terrorists cannot function without I.D. The sixty-three authentic U.S. driver’s licenses the 9/11 terrorists held (from Virginia, Florida, Maryland and other states) permitted them to blend in as ordinary U.S. citizens; permitted them to rent cars, open bank accounts, rent hotel rooms, obtain credit cards, etc. They used them when purchasing flying lessons. And on the morning of 9/11, their U.S. licenses were the “valid ID” that got them on board the planes they used as missiles.

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