Cosmetics Bomber:Importing Terror
It was the U.S. government's own policies, combined with the greed of big business, that facilitated terror-bomber Faisal Shahzad's nearly murderous attack on Times Square.
Shahzad was welcomed to the U.S. from his native Pakistan in 1998 when the U.S. State Department granted him a student visa. (Don't they have schools in Pakistan?) After his graduation, U.S. cosmetics giant Elizabeth Arden in 2002 successfully applied for an immigrant worker H1B visa for Shahzad to work as a clerk in its accounting department. The H1B visa program is supposed to be used to fill only jobs for which U.S. companies are unable to find U.S. workers. Thus, the U.S. government and Elizabeth Arden expect Americans to believe that Arden was unable to find any U.S. workers who were qualified to work as accounting clerks.
Every person put at risk of death and injury in Times Square can thank the U.S. government and Elizabeth Arden for their vulnerability. The notion that the U.S. needs to import accounting clerks from Pakistan is not merely preposterous but extremely dangerous.


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