U.S.: Compassion of the Judaeo-Christian West may well kill us

Terrorists may be exposing an immigration loophole that grants medical visas to sick foreigners so they can come to the United States for treatment, according to a source close to the FBI's counterterrorism effort.

The source told NewsMax.com the Bureau has fears loophole may have already been exploited -- primarily because the State Department rarely, if ever, verifies whether the successful visa applicant actually shows up at the listed medical center for treatment.

According to the source, who requested anonymity, suspicions about the medical visa loophole were first aroused when an administrator in charge of medical requests at the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Del., contacted the FBI soon after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

The hospital had been getting an unusually high number of requests for medical visas from outside the U.S., especially from a specific region of Pakistan, the source says.

As expected, the requests in the case were for children; the visas, however, allow the child's entire family to enter the U.S.

But in a number of cases, said the source, neither the child nor the family showed up at duPont for treatment.

Nevertheless, compassion is the order of the day ... with vigilance before it.