Last week the furor over the Immigration and Naturalization Service's visa approvals for two terrorist hijackers underscored how much work needs to be done in the domestic security area.

The report offered new evidence of how his arrest aroused suspicion at the F.B.I. and C.I.A. that he might be a terrorist hijacker.

"There's a bad joke," said a Saudi architect, "that we use that building to train terrorist hijackers."

When the terrorist hijackers steered the jet into the Pentagon, they managed to kill more accountants than special operations commandos.

No, Mineta said, the terrorist hijackers all had round-trip tickets they bought with credit cards.

The next day, Schultheis made clear his remarks were not intended to compare President Barack Obama to terrorist hijackers, but to express rage against his fiscal policies.

Which one of these people is a crazed terrorist hijacker, I don't know.

"Did you or did you not write 'Al would like to encourage any terrorist hijackers to crash their 767's into the Brooklyn district attorney's office'?"

"As far as you know," one question asked, "how many of the Sept. 11 terrorist hijackers were Iraqi citizens?"

"What makes me despair is that at the same time these terrorist hijackers were gleefully smiling, at least half of our compatriots were loudly laughing," he wrote.