Summary
America, in some parlance, has been at war with radical factions of Islam for at least nine years. Yet, a simple misspelling of a potential terrorist's name allowed him to easily head to the United States. If we've learned nothing since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it should be that American officials need to be more vigilant in tracking would-be terrorists and, where appropriate, revoking their visas so they can't come to America.
Vigilance includes realizing that Islamic names can be long and the spelling complicated. There is a website that searches for multiple spellings of words. It's called Google. If U.S. intelligence officials have yet to realize that such misspellings are literally a disaster waiting to happen, the country is more vulnerable that we think.See the full content of this document
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A Dangerous Misspelling
A recent Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee showed that progress is being made. Thi...
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