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In Slamming U.S., Gore Ignores 9/11 Commission Findings

by Terence P. Jeffrey
Posted Feb , 2006

In a move that ought to terminate any long-shot chance he had for a political comeback, former Vice President Al Gore criticized his own country yesterday before an audience in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia.

It remains to be seen whether members of Gore’s party will stand up and rebuke him for this act.

Ignoring one of the primary lessons of the 9/11 terrorist attacks -- which was that Saudi-born terrorists exploited a lax U.S. visa system -- Gore, in Jiddah, shot venom at the manner in which the U.S. government tightened visa-and-immigration enforcement after the terrorist attacks.

As reported by the Associated Press, Gore told a principally Arab audience at the Jiddah Economic Forum that, after 9/11, Arabs in the United States had been “indiscriminately rounded up, often on minor charges of overstaying a visa or not having a green card in proper order, and held in conditions that were just unforgivable.â€