re: #72 Charles

That’s my point. Every day the US gets reports about potentially dangerous people. It’s not realistic at all to think they can investigate every single one.

From what I’ve heard today - and it’s probably still best to be cautious about such news until it ages a bit - this guy was placed on the no-fly list in Britain due to his connections with extremist Islamic groups, something his father was also aware of. I don’t know if they got their information from the father, but dad apparently contacted the US embassy more than once: first, to report the worrisome connections, and on a separate occasion to report that his son had gone off the radar and he wanted to both warn US authorities of a potential risk and to ask their help to find his son and have him returned home safely. Toss in buying a one-way ticket with cash and several other red flags, and it’s questionable whether he ever should have been granted a visa in the first place.

From what I’m hearing today, it sounds like that whole “connect the dots” thing isn’t working out at all.