9-11 Commission Report

The full report can be downloaded here.

I've just begun reading it and I expect I'll have more posts referring to its contents in the days and weeks ahead. So far, as you've no doubt heard, it is riveting in its novelistic narrative of the events that morning. And the report contains odd details I had certainly never heard before, such as...

...When he checked in for his flight to Boston, Atta was selected by a computerized prescreening system known as CAPPS (Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System), created to identify passengers who should be subject to special security measures. Under security rules in place at the time, the only consequence of Atta's selection by CAPPS was that his checked bags were held off the planed until it was confirmed that he had boarded the aircraft. This did not hinder Atta's plans.

He had checked baggage? Why would a man on a murder/suicide mission have checked baggage?