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We Are No Safer 25 Years After 9/11

The erosion of faith, family, and foundational American values has left America weak and more exposed to evil.

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They had their man. Mohammad Ahmad al-Qahtani. It was Aug. 4, 2001. 

The Saudi citizen had flown into Orlando International Airport. He was briefly detained after acting like a complete ass to a U.S. Customs agent. He was cagey, squirrelly. So agents took him into a room and started asking questions. 

Ultimately,  al-Qahtani’s interrogators determined he was just another “migrant.” A migrant with $2,800 in cash coming in to the United States on a one-way ticket. 

“They didn’t view him in the counterterrorism prism,” said Michael Lebowitz, a former senior attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Security Division. “If they would have, those investigators — a few weeks prior to 9/11 — would have had their hands on a travel itinerary with the phone number and contact information for a guy named Mustafa al-Hawsawi who was the main 9/11 conspirator, clothing and feeding the hijackers within the United States.” 

‘It Fell Through the Cracks’

Lebowitz is an authentic expert on the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The combat veteran, who served in a U.S. Army Pathfinder unit post-9/11, was tapped as a special counsel and war crimes prosecutor in Guantanamo Bay matters. In fact, he helped prosecute the 9/11 case, the USS Cole bombing case, and a case against al-Qaeda’s top commander in Afghanistan. 

He knows counterterrorism. He wrote the book on it, Second Wave: Inside Al Qaeda’s Post-9/11 Attack Plan and America’s Secret Effort to Stop It.

Lebowitz joined me on the latest episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, set for release on Friday. We discussed the state of national security 25 years after radical Islamists struck America and forever changed the world. 

Had authorities in Orlando probed a little more deeply, they would have learned that the rude Saudi they briefly detained possessed a prepaid calling card with the phone number of the horrid and hairy Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the mastermind behind 9/11. Mohamed Atta, the lead hijacker, was waiting at the airport. He was........

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