d the FBI located in Minneapolis, Minnesota sent in a report on August 13. Both reports focused attention on "suspicions that Al Qaeda operatives were using US flight schools to gain expertise required to hijack airplanes" (Martin, "US government alerted"). With these warnings, both foreign and internal, the government should have taken every lead they received and investigated it thoroughly if they really wanted to protect the targeted areas – but they did not. Instead, the government thwarted repeated efforts to investigate.
             Moussaoui was the government's first major lead. "Moussaoui is the Islamic fundamentalist who was detained August 13 after he sought training in flying a Boeing 747 at a Minneapolis-area flight school. He paid $8,000 cash for the training, but was interested only in steering a jumbo jet in flight, not in learning how to take off or land. Flight instructors at the school contacted the authorities, and Moussaoui was detained for a violation of his immigration status, while the local Minneapolis
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