A Minnesota man, who U.S. Homeland Security says may be a threat to national security, was granted a commercial license to drive semi-trucks. He has also applied for a school bus endorsement, which requires a criminal background check.

The tuition for his driving course, amounting to $4,000, was paid for through a state-run workforce program.

Amir Meshal was put on the no-fly list maintained by the U.S. government’s Terrorist Screening Center, which includes people not permitted to board a commercial aircraft to travel in or out of the U.S.

Fox 9 Investigators obtained a letter regarding Meshal written by Homeland Security to the American Civil Liberties Union, which was trying to get Meshal removed from the list.

In the letter, Homeland Security wrote that Meshal “…may be a threat to civil aviation or national security.” In addition, the letter stated, “It has been determined that you [Amir Meshal] are an individual who represents a threat of engaging in or conducting a violent act of terrorism and who is operationally capable of doing so.”

Last year, Meshal was forbidden to enter the Al Farooq mosque in Bloomington, Minnesota after he was accused of radicalizing young Muslims. A number of those young people in question later ended up travelling to Syria as jihadists. He similarly had been asked to leave another mosque in Eden Prairie, Minn.

Religious leaders told police at the time, “We have concerns about Meshal interacting with our youth.”

Eight years ago, Meshal, a U.S. citizen whose family is from Egypt, was accused of being in a terror training camp in Somalia and was held by the FBI in Kenya for three months.

Members of Meshal's family ht for ISIS, said he often expressed radical beliefs about religioun and jihad.