UNBELIEVABLE

As Kos put it, "Funny how this AP writer didn't ask the most obvious question - what took you so fucking long?"

The federal government has begun conducting background checks on all foreigners seeking to attend U.S. flight schools, the Transportation Security Administration said Friday.

The expanded security measures, aimed in part at preventing potential terrorists from taking pilot lessons here as some of the Sept. 11 hijackers did, now apply to any foreigner seeking flight training in the United States, not just those learning to fly larger aircraft.

Well! I feel much safer now, knowing they already had more than three years to train potential terrorists before we stopped them.

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