Washingtontimes.com
Terry Jeffrey
On what may be the eve of a war with Iraq, the State Department is still issuing nonimmigrant visas allowing citizens of Iraq and other terror-sponsoring states to visit the United States.
Between June 1 and Feb. 23, says the State Department, it issued more than 19,000 visas to citizens of the seven countries the department lists as states that sponsor terrorism. More than 11,000 of these visas were issued to citizens of the five terror-sponsoring states in the Middle East — including 5,849 to Iranians, 3,673 to Syrians, 1,042 to Iraqis, 1,037 to Sudanese, and 188 to Libyans.
In addition, 7,281 went to citizens of Cuba, and 375 to citizens of North
Korea.
These terror-state visas continue to be issued even though Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert S. Mueller recently reaffirmed that "terrorists and their state sponsors have emerged as the primary threat to our security."
Posted by Suzanne at February 28, 2003