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The government has lowered the criteria for putting someone on a watch list or no-fly list, and has revoked several U.S. visas as a result, according to CNN.
The action will result in more people being grounded from flights or undergoing secondary screening at airports. Officials wouldn’t indicate how many people might be affected.
The terrorist watch list has about 400,000 names on it, according to the most recent figures reported by the government. Most of them are non-U.S. citizens, and the
Originally posted by AceOfAces
I will say this...these materials may be dangerous when composed in the proper way but because of the nature of how this "device" was supposed to go off and the fact that some rookie terrorist thought he'd succeed...this attack was destined to be thwarted and stopped and basically be a failure. Almost like it was supposed to be...I'm not saying they wouldn't want the plane to blow up- but I think whoever was behind this was ready to fail... Which is why I leave an eyebrow raised at this whole situation...Too many conveniences in this case.