bob, the other thing i don t understand, if the russians had some concerns to actually contact the fbi and ask for an interview and said he was involved in radical islam, how closely would anyone have been monitoring him during that six-month window in russia? they would have, but russia is as inefficient as american authorities are in terms of getting people on computer lists. if there s a slight change in the name, any number of ways you can get through moscow airport or get into dagestan. we just don t know. normally, the russians pull these people aside. but they do make their mistakes just as we do. he just slipped through the system. anderson, let s go back to the fact that the 2350i fbi interviewed him. they should have put him on a list. when he came back into the country, this is standard, interviewed him, gone through his computer if he had one, his