Reply #62: This question is answered in great detail

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...in Truth, Lies and the Legend of 911

Chaim Kupferberg

OnlineJournal.com

Comment: It has to do with Ramzi Binalshibh's inability to get a visa through Ruddi Dekkers efforts, and when that information was known to the FBI. The timing of the visa rejection to go to the flight school was based upon the fact that Ramzi was a terrorist and proves that the Dekkers and the FBI was aware of the presence of Al Qaeda terrorists at flight schools in Florida AND DID NOTHING ABOUT IT. It was for this reason that all the Florida flight school records had to be seized, as documentary evidence of prior knowledge of the threat.

You can read this difficult article if you like. I have excerpted an even more interesting part which evidences a prior conspiracy and an obvious nexus between the 911 plot and the anthrax plot:

<As for his choice for flight training, Atta and his comrades presciently chose to hone their skills within commuter distance of the CIA/military base that would later serve as Central Command for the War in Afghanistan. As posted on the CBS News site on March 5, 2003, here was Binalshibh's simple explanation to Yosri Fouda as to why Florida was chosen for its flight schools:

"The prices in America were convenient and the weather was ideal for more flying hours, especially in the coastal states like Florida . . . and the term of study wouldn't take long."

Perhaps Binalshibh might have added that it would also allow Atta and his comrades to lay an incriminating trail in the presence of bona fide American eyewitnesses, and all within shouting distance of the military handlers at MacDill Air Force Base. As an added bonus, two of Atta's fellow hijackers would also be set up with rental accommodations by the wife of the employee of a CIA-founded company. Gloria Irish, the wife of the tabloid Sun editor Michael Irish, rented a Delray Beach apartment to hijackers Marwan Al-Shehhi and Saeed Alghamdi. Perhaps it is a coincidence, but the very first victim of the post-9/11 anthrax attacks also happened to be a Sun photo editor by the name of Bob Stevens. And perhaps another peculiar coincidence, as reported in the St. Petersburg Times on October 15, 2001:

"Mike Irish, who, records show, is a licensed airplane pilot, several years ago was a member of the Civil Air Patrol based at a small-plane airport in Lantana, just north of Delray Beach, an official there told the Washington Post. One of the hijackers, Atta, reportedly rented a plane at that airport to practice flying for three days in August. Stevens, the Sun photo editor who died of anthrax Oct. 5, also lives in Lantana. But there is no indication whether Irish or Stevens ever crossed paths with Atta.">