LAST UPDATE 5/11/04

PRE 9/11 TERRORISTS

Analysis of Immigration Status

TEAMS WaltHempel

CIA Attack January 25, 1993

Mir Aimal KANSI aka KASI

DOB: 2/10/64
FOB: Pakistan
A72 415 284
A93 249 086

Have INS file

Immigration data: KANSI AKA KASI appears to have been single and
thirty-six years old when he is issued a visa. KASI is admitted for one
month and overstays for a year. He obtains a new Pakistani passport in the
name KANSI. He then files a bogus political asylum claim and gets
permission to work. His political asylum claim is denied and he files for
legalization.
Start
4/81 KANSI claims he leased an apartment in NYC till 4/85 (Per his
application for temporary residence filed on 2/7/92).

5/85 KANSI claims he leased an apartment in NYC till 11/91 (Per his
application for temporary residence filed on 2/7/92)

6/87 KANSI claims he left the United States and returned to Pakistan to visit
his sick father. (He files as a member of the Catholic Social Services vs INS suit which
affects aliens who filed late for the 1986 amnesty or who had left the United States for a
brief period).

12/4/90 Mir Aimal KASI is issued a B-l business visa at the American Consulate
in Karachi, Pakistan. The visa is in the name Kasi. There is a Kasi tribe in Pakistan and
his brothers use the Kasi family name.

2/27/91 Mir Aimal KASI enters the US at NYC as a B-l visitor for pleasure and is
permitted to stay until 3/30/91. He gives his date of birth as 10/22/64. He presents
Pakistani passport G399099. KASI stays for a year without permission of the
Immigration and Naturalization Service, in violation of INA 237(a)(l)(A). This is
grounds for deportation.

3/3/91 Claims to have entered the United States at New York City. The INS
record shows that he entered as an EWI or entry without inspection. This would indicate
that he did not have the proper documents for entry. He later stated this on his political
asylum claim

3/19/91 KASI is issued a new Pakistani passport G284309 at the Pakistani

Embassy in Washington, DC in the name of KANSI.

Note: Much of the A file cannot be read as the copies are so poor. It appears that
KANSI entered the US as KASI on a B-l visa perhaps with an altered date of birth in
Pakistani Passport G399099. However, he conceals this fact by claiming EWI and
getting a new passport. The new passport shows his name as KANSI and there is a
notation that the correct name on the passport should be KANSI. However the new
passport says that it replaces Pakistani passport D398086.

2/7/92 KANSI files a claim for political asylum based on and is given
permission to work in the United States while the application is pending*. (Note: It is
reported that Kasi's brother-in-law was Pakistani Federal Minister of Health Dr. Abdul
Malik Kasi)

He gets a Virginia driver's license and begins working for a courier service in the
Washington, DC area. His political asylum claim is denied. He applies for legalization
and is again given authorization to work. He previously claimed to have only been in the
US since 3/3/91 however when he files for legalization he claims to have entered the
United States in 1981 by crossing the border from Mexico. He has rent receipts, bank
records, etc. to support his claim.

Note: To support his immigration claims, KANSI presented two leases, four letters
of employment and one letter from a friend in Pakistan to verify a visit. They ALL
appear to have been typed on the same typewriter. He also provides a form requesting
status in a class action suit against the INS by the United Latin American Citizens
(LULAC). On 5/8/95, the President of LULAC, Jose Velez was convicted in Federal
Court of 10 counts of immigration fraud by filing thousands of Seasonal Agricultural
Worker or legalization fraud.

4/15/92 INS issues KANSI work authorization under file number A93 249 086 at
which time he claims to have entered the United States in August, 1987 by illegally
crossing the Mexican border.

Note: KANSI's roommate Zahed Ahmad MIR, Pakistan, A93 001 385, was visited after
the attack and permitted the police to seize two handguns and magazines for the AK-47
believed to be used by KANSI. MIR was later arrested and charged with SAW fraud.
MIR lied on his SAW application and said that he had entered the United States in 11985
and that he had picked "watermelons, cantaloupe and assorted other crops" for a farm in
Georgia.

1/25/93 KANSI waits at a stoplight in front of the Central Intelligence

Headquarters in Langley, Viginia. Armed with an AK-47 assault rifle, he shoots five
male CIA employees while they sit in their cars. Frank Darling and Lansing Bennett are
killed and three others are seriously injured.

1/26/93 KANSI flies to Pakistan.

2/12/93 Legalization file sent to HQ

2/9/93 INS issues a prevent departure notice to airlines on KANSI.

2/16/93 The State of Virginia charges KANSI with murder, malicious wounding
and five counts of using a firearm in the commission of a felony.

6/15/97 The FBI, working with Pakistani intelligence, arrests KANSI in a hotel in
Pakistan. KANSI had spent most of his time hiding in Afghanistan. (Source: Mir Aimal
Kasi v. Commonwealth of Virginia (Virginia Supreme Court) , Circuit Court of Fairfax
County, Record Numbers 980797 November 6, 1998 980798.

11/10/97 The trial, held in Fairfax County, Virginia concludes with the jury finding
KANSI guilty of all counts.
2/4/98 After three post trial hearings, KANSI is sentenced to death for capital
murder, life in prison for first degree murder, 20 years on each of the five counts of
malicious wounding, two years in prison on one firearms charge and four years in prison
on each of the other four firearms charges.

11/14/02 KANSI is executed by lethal injection at the Greensville Correctional

Center, Jarratt, Virginia.

Testimony of Paul Virtue, Acting EXECUTIVE Associate Commissioner, Office of

Programs, Immigration and Naturalization Service before the House Judiciary
Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims, May 20,1997.

*A file

World Trade Center 1 February 26,1993

Ramzi Ahmed YOUSEF AKA Abdul Basit

Mahmud Abdul KARIM

FOB: UAE or Kuwait or Iraq?

DOB: 5/20/67
A72 054 519
Claims to have received formal training in electrical engineering at the Glamorgan
Institute of Technology in England.

Summer of 1992 Travels to Afghanistan and receives terrorist training.

IMMIGRATION VIOLATIONS: YOUSEF boards an aircraft in Pakistan

using a photo substituted Swedish passport. Enroute to the US he switches
to an Iraqi passport that he acquired by fraud. The passport is questioned by
INS and YOUSEF admits that it is fraudulent and claims political asylum.
The person traveling with him is Mohammed AJAJ who also has a
fraudulent passport. A search of AJAJ's belonging finds bomb making
texts. YOUSEF's Islamic Student ID card (a fantasy document) is found in
AJAJ's bag (AJAJ has one in his name also). Despite these facts, YOUSEF
is not detained but scheduled for a hearing which he never attended. He is
released to the streets of NYC. His identity is never established and his
flying companion has bomb making instructions in his luggage. He is
excludable for not having a visa.

9/1/92 YOUSEF boards Pakistan International Airlines flight #703 from

Peshawar to Karachi to NYC on 9/1/01. He uses a Swedish passport in the name of
Khurram KHAN that had been photo substituted. Enroute to the United States he gives
the Swedish passport to Ahmad Mohamad AJAJ, another terrorist. AJAJ's photo is
affixed to the passport.

At JFK, YOUSEF presents an Iraqi passport M0372369 which does not contain a US
visa. He claims to have purchased it from a Pakistani official. (Later examination of the
passport by the FDL reveals that the date of birth page has been overwritten and the
passport binding has been cut and un-stitched.) Claims political asylum and is released
pending a hearing.

Note: YOUSEF entered with Mohammed Ahmad AJAJ who had four fraudulent
passports and a bomb making manual. YOUSEF has an identity document from the El-
Bunyan Islamic Information Center as a backup document with YOUSEF's photo in the
name of Khurram KHAN. Also, INS records YOUSEF's immigration file number, A72
054 519, under the index first name Ramziyousuf and last name, AHMED. The FBI
assigns SUBJECT the number #229845RA4 and creates an index name of Ramzi Yousaf
AHMED.

12/8/92 YOUSEF is scheduled for exclusion hearing. There are two notations in
the A file, one that YOUSEF did not appear and another that he was present but
requested legal representation. His attorney requests a new date and a hearing is
scheduled for 1/26/93.

1/26/93 YOUSEF's attorney appears and claims that YOUSEF has been
hospitalized as the result of an automobile accident.

2/26/93 WTC 1 bombing

YOUSEF leaves the United States by air to Karachi, Pakistan using the
alias "Abdul Basit" and an emergency Pakistani passport issued previously by the
Pakistani government.
3/10/93 The immigration file is transferred to Newark, NJ. It appears that
YOUSEF may have filed a claim for political asylum but there is no record in the file.

3/12/93 His attorney files a petition to withdraw as counsel claiming that he cannot
find or communicate with his client. The Immigration Judge approves of the withdrawal
petition.

3/23/93 YOUSEF fails to appear for his rescheduled exclusion hearing.

3/25/93 Immigration Judge orders YOUSEF excluded in absentia.

9/1/93 YOUSEF is indicted on nine felony counts.

2/8/95 YOUSEF is returned to the United States from Islamabad, Pakistan and
paroled to stand trial.

YOUCEF is sentenced to 240 years.

Mohammed Ahmad AJAJ

FOB: Palestine
DOB: 12/22/65
A72 215 823

IMMIGRATION VIOLATIONS: AJAJ comes to the US on two prior

occasions. The last time he files for political asylum but leaves the US and
abandons the application. AJAJ boards an aircraft in Pakistan using a
fraudulent United Kingdom passport. Enroute to the US he switches to a
photo substituted Swedish passport. The passport is questioned by INS and
AJAJ admits that it is fraudulent. The person traveling with him is Ramzi
YOUSEF who also has a fraudulent passport. A search of AJAJ's belonging
finds bomb making texts. YOUSEF's Islamic Student ID card (a fantasy
document) is found in AJQAJ's bag (AJAJ has one in his name also). AJAJ
is arrested. He is detained by INS. He is prosecuted for passport fraud and
sentenced to six months imprisonment. He is placed in exclusion
proceedings. Later, it is determined that since he used a Swedish passport (
a visa waiver country) he should not have been put in proceedings but
returned as soon as he is released from Federal prison. Instead he completes
his sentence and is released by INS to the streets.

1/90 - 2/90 AJAJ claims to have visited the United States (per political asylum
claim)

9/9/91 AJAJ enters the United States at JFK, New York. He is admitted
as a B-2 tourist and permitted to stay until 3/8/92. His visa was issued on 7/12/90 at the
US Consulate in Jerusalem.

2/5/92 AJAJ files form 1-589 Request for Asylum in the United States.
He claims that the authorities in Israel have beaten him and he claims to have been
deported to Jordan on 5/17/91. INS file A 72 215 823 is created.

2/14/92 He receives authorization for employment by INS and is issued a

Employment Authorization Document valid until 2/13/93.
Note: This document has a different A number A72 454 149, apparently in error.

6/16/92 AJAJ fails to appear for his political asylum interview in Houston,
Texas.

7/1/92 AJAJ appears at AMCON Islamabad, Pakistan and requesting a

visa to travel to the United States. AJAJ says that he has been in Pakistan a few weeks
and is working at the Islamic University. No visa issued.

7/15/92 INS action on political asylum claim is terminated due to AJAJ's

failure to appear at required INS interview

Summer of 1992 Attends a Jihad training facility "Camp Khaldan" in Afghanistan.

He learns terrorist tactics, firearms and how to make bombs recording some of these in
the books that were seized at his time of entry. (Note: A fingerprint belonging to
Mahmoud ABOUHALIMA and Ramzi YOUSEF was also found on a page in these
notebooks relating to how to bomb a building.

8/31/92 AJAJ boards Pakistan International Airlines flight #703 from

Peshawar to Karachi to NYC. He boards using a United Kingdom passport #P292844F
in the name of Mohammad AZAN. While in the air, Ramzi YOUSEF, who is also on the
flight, tells AJAJ that AJAJ may have a problem presenting the UK passport as AJAJ
does not speak English. YOUSEF, during the flight gives him his Swedish passport
#01468963 in the name of Kharram KHAN. YOUCEF removes his photo and puts
AJAJ's photo into the Swedish passport. (Source: YOUCEF court testimony at AJAJ
trial.)

9/1/92 AJAJ attempts to enter the United States in New York City. He
presents the Swedish passport #01468963 in the name of Khurram KHAN. There is no
United States visa in the passport. The INS inspector detects the photo substitution.
AJAJ has his luggage opened and there are three other passports Saudi Arabia #581231
(photo substituted), Jordan #D344492 in name of Ahmad Mohammad Ahmad AJAJ and
United Kingdom #P292844F containing a photo that resembles AJAJ. There are also
many books and notes on how to assemble weapons and explosives.

AJAJ also has an identity document with AJAJ's photo in the name of Khurram KHAN.
This is an "Al-Bunyan Islamic Information Center" document created by YOUCEF as
secondary identification. It shows that it was issued in Pakistan but the headquarters for
the "Al-Bunyan Islamic Information Center" (AIIC) is listed as P.O. Box 14149, Tucson,
AZ. There is also an AIIC card with YOUSEF's photo found in AJAJ's bags. This was
to be the backup document for YOUSEF.

Note: It is unclear whether the ID in the name of KHAN, with YOUSEF's photo on it,
was in AJAJ's bags or was mistakenly put in AJAJ's folder when AJAJ and YOUSEF
were in INS secondary inspection.

AJAJ claims that he has a political asylum claim pending. He also claims to be a member
of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). He refuses to give any statement
without his attorney.

INS Inspections determines that AJAJ should be held for an exclusion hearing. The INS
Inspectors called Agent W. Parola who was on a Joint Task Force investigating terrorism
but he declined to respond to JFK but asked for copies of AJAJ'S documents. AJAJ is
detained at the INS detention facility in NYC.

9/4/92 AJAJ appears before an immigration judge but hearing is adjourned due to
not having AJAJ's immigration file which was in Houston where the political asylum
claim was filed during AJAJ's previous entry.

9/4/92 Arrest warrant for AJAJ issued by US Magistrate in Brooklyn, NY for

criminal violation of 18 USC 1543 'use of an altered passport". AJAJ pleads guilty and
receives a six month sentence.

*****File does not reflect incarceration dates or when released.

9/10/92 Exclusion hearing adjourned as AJAJ wants to have an attorney.

2/26/93 WTC 1 bombing

3/9/93 AJAJ arrested in connection with WTC 1

3/30/93 At INS hearing, AJAJ says that he left the United States to take a
university test in Pakistan. He wants his immigration case moved to Houston. Hearing
adjourned because there is no Arabic interpreter.

3/31/93 Adjourned again as AJAJ wants to get new attorney and again wants the
exclusion hearing moved to Houston.

4/8/93 AJAJ transferred to the Metropolitan Correctional Center for security

purposes related to WTC bombing

4/24/93 District Counsel for the Executive Office of Immigration Review moves to
terminate exclusion proceedings. AJAJ attempted entry under the visa waiver program
using a Swedish passport. Use of a fraudulent passport under visa waiver program does
not require an exclusion hearing for removal of the alien from the United States. AJAJ
should have been immediately returned to Pakistan unless he makes a claim for political
asylum at the time of entry. (AJAJ's previous P/A claim was abandoned when he left
without permission by the INS.)

4/29/93 A telephonic exclusion hearing is held. AJAJ's attorney admits AJAJ is

excludable as charged. AJAJ's attorney wants to file a new political asylum claim. The
Immigration Judge (IJ) gives AJAJ's attorney until 5/10/93 to file a new P/A claim. The
IJ denies AJAJ's change of venue request.

5/7/93 AJAJ files a new political asylum claim

AJAJ convicted in WTC 1 bombing

5/20/93 Projected release date from BOP on conviction

Eyad Mahmoud ISMAIL AKAISMOIL

FOB: Kuwait
COC: Jordan
DOB: 1/26/64
A73 140 727

IMMIGRATION VIOLATION: ISMAIL was an out of status student and

deportable at the time he drives the van into the WTC.
10/3/89 AMCON Kuwait issued F-l visa

10/9/89 Enters the United States at Honolulu as F-l student destined to Wichita
State University in Kansas

10/23/89 ISMAIL attends the English language program at Wichita State University

11/21/90 ISMAIL receives approval from INS for part time employment until
11/20/91 while attending school

2/26/93 WTC 1 bombing ISMAIL drives the van containing the bomb

9/12/94 ISMAIL indicted on ten counts for WTC 1 bombing

8/3/95 ISMAIL paroled into US for prosecution from Jordan

MOHAMMED ABOUHALIMA AKA ABO
HALIMA
DOB: 2/23/64
FOB: EGYPT
INS A 91 184 226
FBI 74 212 7TA5 9/11 Personal Privacy
SOCIAL SECURITY]
BOP 28173-054
IMMIGRATION VIOLATION: Overstays his B-2 visa, submits a
fraudulent legalization application under the Seasonal Agricultural Program.

7/22/85 Entered US at NYC as B-2, given until 8/15/85

11/6/85 Request for extension denied and voluntary departure given until 12/5/95

9/30/87 Received temporary residence under Seasonal Agricultural Worker

(SAW) program claiming to have picked beans in Florida. This program attracted 1.3
million applications from aliens who could prove that they worked for at least 90 days in
agriculture in 1985-1986.

Unconfirmed reports that SUBJECT went to Afghanistan for terrorist training.

7/15/92 Temporary residence denied due to fraud, never worked in agriculture.

The petitioner, farmer Lee Artis BREEDLOVE, owned a farm in Florida and claimed to
have employed the SUBJECT, BREEDLOVE pled guilty in Federal Court to having
issued 260 fraudulent employment records to be used by aliens in SAW applications.

ABOHALIMA indicted for 18 USC 3, accessory after the fact, in assisting WTC 1
bombing terrorists after the incident.

11/24/98 Found guilty at trial and sentenced 96 months.

4/23/02 Final administrative removal order issued for deportation based on

conviction of an aggravated felony.

8/25/05 Projected release date from BOP

Mustapha Mohamed Abdul-Rahman SHALABI
AKA SHALABY
FOB: Egypt
DOB: 7/31/51
A34 977 863

IMMIGRATION VIOLATION: SHALABI obtains an immigrant visa

through fraud by claiming marriage to a US citizen while he is married
already. He then divorces his two wives and marries his lawyer who is a
naturalized US citizen. He files a fraudulent petition to naturalize based
saying he is still married to his first US citizen wife. He is interviewed by
INS for his naturalization and it appears that his attorney (his new wife) is
present while he swears under oath that he is still married to his first wife.

7/1/78 SHALABI marries Judith Ann ELDEAN, a United States citizen who was
born on 11/12/38 in Chicago, Illinois (Age deference of 12 years). Marriage takes place
in Yemen.

7/16/78 ELDEAN signs an I-130 petition for her husband SHALABI

8/13/78 AMCON Sana'a, Yemen issues immigrant visa, it appears that final
destination on immigrant visa form was Macatawa, Michigan 49434 and that Brooklyn
address was in different handwriting.

8/19/78 Enters at NYC as Legal Permanent Resident based on marriage to U.S.

Citizen. Destined to M. Ibrahim, 3D 1958 50th St., Brooklyn, NY 11204

1/80 SHALABI stated on his naturalization application that at this time he

visited, France, Germany, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates.

8/15/81 SHALABI's sister writes a letter from Egypt that his father is ill and she
needs SHALABI to come to Egypt. Letter was addressed to SHALABI at 341 Colon
Ave., NY, NY 10308

8/31/81 INS form G-28 Notice of Appearance of Attorney NefesaH. Zakaria is

signed by SHALABI making Nefesa his attorney of record for his immigration matters.

10/5/81 INS grants SHALABI permission to travel to Egypt and return to the
United States. Purpose of trip is to visit ill father.
 .••''9/11 Working-level
Employee

1179/81 SHALABI files an N-400 Application to File Petition for Naturalization

under Section 319(a) which allows an alien who is married to a United States: citizen to
naturalize after three years residence instead of the usual five years residence! He claims
to be married to Judith Eldeen. . i

11/19/81 SHALABI is granted a divorce by the Egyptian Government from his wife
Judith Eldeen aka El Din \1 SHALABI marries Nefesa

card in the file, Nefesa Zakaria Aiad, Attorney, offices in Cairo and NYC). Fil^ contains
a very poor copy of naturalization certificate for a Nefesea Hussan from 1976. i
On the translation of the marriage certificate, SHALABI's date of birth is not entered.

4/16/82 .SHALABI is interviewed under oath by naturalization examiner[

I [concerning his petition to naturalize. SHALABI states that he is married to
Judith ELDEEN. He claims to be living at 341 Colon Ave., NY and working as a
supervisor for Dean Electric. He claims no children.

Note: On the N-400, his date of birth is typed in as 7/32/43 and is changed to ' 51.
Naturalization examiner notes that G-28 Attorney is present during interview.
That attorney is Nefesa Zakaria who is also SHALABI's wife.

7/6/82 SHALABI is naturalized based on his marriage to a United States citizen,

Judith Eldeen, which allows him to naturalize with three years residence in the United
States. (The three years have to be with the same wife). Usually five year's residence is
required.

4/19/82 Mustapha Mohmed SALABI Jr. is born in NYC, mother is Nefesa

ZAKARIA

6/2/83 SHALABI is granted a divorce by the Egyptian Government from his wife
Nefesa Hassan Zakaria

Unknown date Anonymous letter received by INS NYC that says that SHALABI was
bom actually bom in 1943. That he was residing at 3703 Lyme Ave., Seagate, Brooklyn,
NY 718-372-9164. That at the time he married Judith Ann ELDEAN, he was married to
a woman in Egypt. It also said that SHALABI lied to INS when he was naturalized by
saying he was still married to his United States citizen wife when he wasn't. That on
11/19/81, SHALABI divorced his US wife and his Egyptian wife at the Egyptian
Consulate. SHALABI brought his new wife to the United States in 12/85. The letter
claims he married his Egyptian lawyer, Nefesa H. Zakaria in Egypt and that he has a son
by this relationship, Mustafa M. SHALABI born on 4/19/82.

3/1/91 SHALABI is found murdered in the exclusive Brooklyn community of

Sea Gate. (Sea Gate has about 7,000 residents, has only one guarded entrance and is
 .,••'9/11 Law Enforcement Privacy

surrounded by water on three sides. It has its own state licensed police force). He had
been shot once in the head, his throat was; slashed and he h&d other wounds. In his room
were found books on explosives and ammunition and an Egyptian passport. He had been
dead for several days. According tp the New York Post, March 2,1991, SHALABI was
39 and married. He told neighbors he was returning to Egypt; His wife and two children
returned to Egypt with the assistance of his close friend Ali MOHAMMED who would
later be convicted for his part in the African Embassy bombings.

3/31/93 G-600A Investigation Preliminary Worksheet prepared by Supervisory

Special Agemf ""[assigning case to Special Agent) [to check information in
anonymous letter.

4/2/93 Llold Sherman, Trial Attorney, INS NYC reviews information and
determines that SHALABI should not have been naturalized under INA Section 319(a)
based on marriage to US citizen as the marriage had to exist for three years after entry as
a legal permanent resident. A divorce breaks the three year residence even if the
SUBJECT remarries another US citizen.

Note: From the mid-1980's until his murder, SHALABI was the emir at the Alkifah
Refugee Center also known as the Afgan Service Bureau. The Center was a focal point
for Islamic terrorists and was referred to as the "jihad office". In 1990, SHALABI was
one of the sponsors for Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman's. Rahman became the outspoken
imam of the Al-Farooq Mosque which was located in the same building as the Alkifah
center. SHALABI raised millions of dollars for the fundamentalists cause. SHALABI
and Rahman eventually split and a power struggle ensued. (Source: News accounts and
"Why America Slept" by Gerald Possner.)
Biblal A. ALKAISI AKA Bibal ELQISIAKA
FOB: Jordan or Lebanon or Israel

A71 495 857 (Political Asylum)

A93 003 841 (Legalization) Not available for review, non-disclosure
provision under legalization
A94 010 816 (Temporary Protected Status)

IMMIGRATION VIOLATION:

7/25/88 Claimed entry NYC

8/20/91 The Islamic Brotherhood, Inc., 552-554 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY

writes a letter of membership in good standing for Bilal El Qisi. This is the address of
the Al-Farouq Mosque and the Alkifah Refugee Center.

9/21/91 Using the name of Bilal EL QISI, ALKAISI files an application for
temporary protected status (TPS) at the Cleveland, Ohio INS office. He states that he
was born in Lebanon on 9/6/65 and that he entered the United States at NYC on 7/25/88.
These claims are supported by a Lebanese birth certificate and a stamped INS Form 1-94
(Arrival and Departure Record) which is later determined to have been altered to show a
different country of birth.. INS creates file A94 010 816.

3/11/92 Cleveland INS initiates an investigation based on a number of suspected

fraudulent TRS applications.

3/19/92 The INS Forensic Document Laboratory completes an examination of the

Lebanese birth certificate which is determined to be counterfeit document that was
produced by a color copier. The examiner also states that the English translation
document is also fraudulent

5/22/92 Bibal ELQISI files a request for political asylum claiming birth in Jordan
on 12/20/65. ELQISI says that he entered the United States on 10/10/87 at NYC via
Jordan Airlines but was not inspected by INS. He claims an address of P.O. Box 789
Brooklyn, NY. He gives his INS file number as A71 495 857.

7/13/92 ELQISI is scheduled for an asylum interview. He fails to appear.

7/28/92 INS terminates action on political asylum claim.

3/25/93 ALKAISI goes to the FBI office in Newark, NJ. and is arrested in
connection with the World Trade Center bombing. He said that his name was Bilall
Salem ALKAISI, born 12/25/65, in Jordan.

8/8/93 Under the name EL QISI, ALKAISI is indicted in the WTC 1 prosecution.

5/9/94 ALKAISI pleads guilty

5/19/94 INS records certifies that there is no record of the entry of ALKAISI under
that name or any of his other aliases.

7/123/94 ALKAISI is sentenced to 20 months for violation of 18 USC 1001 False

Statements for his fraudulent political asylum claim.

1178/94 Bilal EL QISA is deported to Jordan

Nidal Abderrahman AYYAD

FOB: Kuwait - Jordanian citizen

DOB: 7/17/67
A40 114 913

7/15/85 Abderrahman Yousif AYYAD, A23 423 077, signs affidavit of support to
bring his son Nidel to the United States.

10/10/85 AYYAD enters the United States at New York City as a lawful permanent
resident based on the petition of his permanent resident father as an unmarried son.

2/21/91 AYYAD is interviewed for naturalization at INS Newark and swears to

take full allegiance to the United States. AYYAD takes the oath of citizenship

3/7/91 AYYAD is naturalized in Newark, NJ and issued naturalization certificate

C14809286.
2/26/93 WTC 1

2/27/93 AYYAD calls the NY Times and proclaims that the bombing was by the
Liberation Army.

3/4/94 AYYAD is convicted of his part in the World Trade Center bombing

5/24/94 AYYAD is sentenced to 240 years for conspiracy to destroy buildings by

use of an explosive device, explosive destruction of property, destruction of a motor
vehicle, assault on a federal officer, using or carrying a destructive device during a crime
of violence.

5/28/96 INS Newark recommends that AYYAD have his naturalization be

revoked. This is based on the conviction of AYYAD in the conspiracy to bomb the
World Trade Center. The indictment, conviction and investigations show that AYYAD
was a member of a terrorist group before and after his naturalization. This
recommendation is based on INA 340 (a)(2) withholding of a material fact and/or
sections 340(c) reopening of naturalization proceedings and 313(3) membership in
groups advocating the violent overthrow of the government of the United States.

Mahmud ABOUHALIMA AKA Mahmud the Red

FOB: Egypt
Start

1985 ABOUHALIMA and his German wife Marianne Weber enter the United
States on tourist visa. They are admitted for six months and overstay.
1987 ABOULIHALIMA applies for amnesty under the Special Agricultural
Program (SAW) fraudulently claiming that he worked seven months on a South Carolina
farm.

11/5/90 ABOUHALIMA was to drive the getaway taxi after NOSAIR had
murdered Rabbi Meir Kahane but had to move from in front of the Marriott Eastside
Hotel. That night he is arrested with Mohammed SALAHEH at one of NOSAIRs
addresses and admit that they were with NOSAIR at the murder.

11/6/90 They are released by NYPD.

2/26/93 ABOUHALIMA drives a Honda behind the Ryder rental truck carrying
the bomb into the WTC.

9/2/2087 Projected release date from Federal prison.

3/2/93 ABOUHALIMA takes the first night he can out the US to Sudan.

3/26/93 Arrested by FBI agents in Egypt.

3/27/93 Returned to the United States.

Mohammed SALEH
LPR?

Plot to Destroy New York City Landmarks June 24, 1993

Sheik Omar Abdel RAHMAN

Matarawy Mohammed Said SALEH

FOB: Egypt
DOB: 3/4/56
A41 066 738
A27 520 221 (In name of Wahid Mohamed AHMED IBRAHIM AKA Bobby FOB on
CIS Jamaica
Files consolidated
HAVE INS FILE
(Many pages of the file are illegible as the copying was done so poorly)

12/7/82 Claimed on 1-130 petition by Cortez but not verified

1/31/86 Marriage performed in NYC between Wahid Mohamed AHMED and

Evelyn Cortez, United States citizen. Witness was Armed A. Arafa.

2/12/86 1-130 Petition to Classify Status of Alien Relative filed with INS NYC.
Petition is for Ahmed Ibrahim Wahid MOHAMED (alias for SALEH) with a date of birth
of 6/13/50. Beneficiary claims to be a self-employed scuba diver. Both claim to live at
5-W, 220 E. Tremont Ave, Bronx, NY. Cortez states that she has been married before to
Jonathan Rivera Rosario. INS file A27 520 221.

5/14/86 INS denies the petition as Cortez did not submit a divorce order from her
previous marriage. Certified notice returned marked "unclaimed".

10/4/87 SALEH marries Leslie SONKIN, US citizen in Egypt. The immigrant

petition states that Matarawy Mohamed SALEH has never been married before.

12/12/87 SALEH enters the US at NYC as a conditional resident based on his

marriage to a US citizen

8/11/88 SALEH convicted of selling heroin in Detroit and sentenced to five years
imprisonment and paroled after two and 1A years. (21 USC 841(a)(l) and 18 USC 2)
 12/18/90 INS initiates deportation proceeding while SALEH is detained at the
BOP/INS facility in Oakdale, LA. as a result of the narcotics conviction.

1/18/91 Sultan El Gawly, 27 Glenwood Ave., Jersey City, NJ posts $8,000 cash
bail with INS for SALEH's release from Oakdale, LA BOP. (Original bond was set at
$20,000 but was reduced by IJ). His detention was the result of his heroin conviction in
Detroit.

3/31 /93 CR-1 status terminated by INS

7/16/93 FBI interviews Evelyn Cortez who is now married to Ashraf Mohammed.
She claims that she had a son by SALEH six years ago. Ashraf Mohammed is later
arrested for harboring SALEH.

7/22/93 SALAH is arrested by INS/FBI in Wildwood, NJ along with Ashraf

Mohamed, DOB 1/2/62, Egypt, DOE 1/2/62 at NYC as TW2. Ashraf MOHAMED later
marries Evelyn Cortez, SALEH's first wife.

8/4/95 SALAH pleads guilty to conspiracy

12/15/95 SALAH convicted in NYC of conspiracy to bomb various targets in NYC

(18 USC 371, 18 USC 844 (i) and 18 USC 842(a)(3)(A)

12/19/95 SALEH is sentenced to time served and placed on supervised release for
three years. There is no notice of immigration status or conditions in sentence. SALEH is
released from the Metropolitan Correction Center, NYC despite the presence of an INS
detainer. NY AUS A McCarthy ordered the release. There was discussion of using
SALAH as an informant which INS opposed.

2/5/96 FBI S/A] [writes a memo the FBI Newark SAC disagreeing
on the use of SALEH as an informant. He lists as factors against having SALEH on the
streets, his illegal immigration status, heroin conviction, violation of probation, assault on
wife Cortes(z), assaulting Stephanie SINGLEY his current wife, SALEH's involvement
in credit card fraud, theft, etc.

6/4/96 . INS Philadelphia issues a warrant of arrest for violation of the INA

6/6/96 SALEH is arrested at the Federal Probation office in Wilkes-Barre, PA, by

INS. /
6/27796 Based on the terrorism conviction SALEH is placed in administrative
deportation proceedings as an aggravated felon. This procedure does not involve a
deportation hearing. However, relief from deportation is available to someone convicted
/ o f terrorism if they can show "hardship". The combination of terrorism AND drug
convictions is ruled to render SALEH ineligible for any relief from deportation.

9/25/96 SALEH served with a final notice of deportation.

9/11 Law Enforcement Privacy

11/18/96 The country of Egypt issues a temporary travel document to enable
SALEH to travel to and enter Egypt only.

11/19/96 SALEH deported to Egypt on Egyptair #988

El Sayyid NOSAIR

FOB: Egypt
DOB:
A23 406 577
No INS file (privacy act)
1981 NOSAIR enters the United States. Status unknown.
He marries an American convert to Muslim with which he obtains legal
permanent residence.

1985 NOSAIR moves to New Jersey. He becomes a regular at the ALKIFAH

Refugee Center in Brooklyn he also starts contacting Sheik Rahman.

9/27/89 NOSAIR is naturalized in Newark, NJ. Prior to his naturalization,

NOSAIR had been observed by the FBI shooting a variety of weapons at a shooting
range. However the FBI did not inform the INS of any concerns.

11/5/90 NOSAIR shoots and kills radical Jewish Rabbi Meir Kahane in front of a
crowd of followers at the Marriott Eastside Hotel. He then shots an elderly man who
tried to stop him. He gets into the wrong taxi (not the getaway taxi driven by Mahmud
ABOUHALIMA) After a block he jumps out of the taxi with his gun. He is encountered
by an off duty postal inspector and they shoot each other.

11/8/90 The FBI raids NOSAIR's apartment. They find many military documents
from Ft. Bragg. These are traced to Ali MOHAMMED who was a sergeant in the US
Special Forces who would later be convicted for his part in the African Embassy
bombings.
12/21191 NOS AIR is found not guilty of the murder of Rabbi Kahane or the
attempted murder of the postal inspector. Convicted of carrying a weapon and assault,
He is sentenced to eight years.

3/4/93 Ibrahim El GABROWNY approaches FBI Agents who have a search

warrant for his apartment. He is detained and tries to assault the agents when they try to
frisk him. During a search of the apartment, in an envelope he was carrying was
NOSAIR's US passport, five Nicaraguan passports (issued in July 1991) and five
Nicaraguan birth certificates (for NOSAIR, his wife and his three children) also
Nicaraguan drivers licenses. (The document for NOSAIR are in the name of Victor Noel
Jafry and for NOSAIR's wife in the name of Ninfra Safry Calderon).

Note: Due to the earthquake in Nicaragua, many birth records were destroyed. It is
relatively easy to obtain fraudulent ones. Applications for passports do not require a
personal visit.

5/8/96 INS recommends that the US naturalization of NOSAIR be revoked based

on his lack of good moral character prior to his naturalization. He also could be charged
with violation of 18 USC 1425 for having unlawfully obtained naturalization. (Source
Memo from Charles Parker, District Counsel, INS, Newark, NJ.

Ibrahim el GABROWNY
NO INS FILE
3/4/93 El GABROWNY approaches FBI Agents who have a search warrant for his
apartment. He is detained and tries to assault the agents when they try to frisk him. In an
envelope he was carrying was NOSAIR's US passport, five Nicaraguan passports (issued
in July 1991) and five Nicaraguan birth certificates (for NOSAIR, his wife and his three
children) also Nicaraguan drivers licenses. (The document for NOSAIR are in the name
of Victor Noel Jafry and for NOSAIR's wife in the name of Ninfra Safry Calderon).

Note: Due to the earthquake in Nicaragua, many birth records were destroyed. It is
relatively easy to obtain fraudulent ones. Applications for passports do not require a
personal visit.

Copy of indictment in Nidal AYYAD file.

Mohammed SALAMEH
NO INS FILE
11/5/90 SALAMEH was with NOSAIR the night NOSAIR had murdered Rabbi
Meir Kahane but had to move from in front of the Marriott Eastside Hotel. That night he
is arrested with Mohammed SALAHEH at one of NOSAIRs addresses and admit that
they were with NOSAIR at the murder.

1176/90 They are released by NYPD

Drove Ryder van with bomb into WTC

3/4/93 SALAHEM is arrested

Amir ABDELGHANI
NO INS FILE

Fadil ABDELGHANI
NO INS FILE

Tarig ELHASSAN
NO INS FILE

Fares KHALLAFALLA
NO INS FILE

Siddig Ibrahim Siddiq ALI

NO INS FILE
Abdo Mohammed HAGGAG
NO INS FILE

Abdel Rahman YASIN

Yasin was born in the United States?

Ramzi YOUSEF stayed with YASIN at YASIN's apartment

Plot to Destroy New York Subways

Lafi Taisir Mufleh KHALIL
FOB: Ramallah, West Bank
DOB: 10/24/74
A74 893 612

6/26/95 KHALIL is issued a Jordanian passport E513470

11/14/96 KHALIL gets an Ecuadorian visa

11/25/96 KHALIL is issued a C-l "transit visa" by AMCON Jerusalem, Israel. The
visa is issued to allow KHALIL to enter the United States in transit to Ecuador. This
allows him to remain in the United States for up to 29 days.

12/7/96 KHALIL arrives at JFK. The immigration inspector makes a mistake and
treats KHALIL as a B-2 tourist which results in KHALIL getting six months to stay in
the United States. KHALIL gets on a flight to Syracuse, NY. He also travels to
Tennessee and California.

6/6/97 KHALIL's authorized stay in the United States expires. He is now

illegally in the United States. KHALIL does not have INS permission to work in the US.

7/97 KHALIL works at an IGA Supermarket in North Carolina. Some of the

bomb materials are purchased in North Carolina.

7/31 /97 NYPD arrests KHALIL and finds bombs in the apartment.

8/4/97 INS NYC places a detainer on KHALIL who is in Marshal's custody

8/20/97 KHALIL is indicted on four counts, conspiracy to use a weapon of mass

destruction, conspiracy to use and carry a firearm (a pipe bomb)

7/24/98 KHALIL is convicted of possessing fraudulent immigration documents. In

presentence report KHALIL states that he is a member of "Fatah"

12/3/98 KHALIL is sentenced to 36 months for violation of 18 USC 1546 (a)

Possession of a Counterfeit Alien Registration Card. The judge also orders that KHALIL
be immediately deported after serving his prison time and not return without permission
of the US Attorney General.

12/6/99 KHALIL is served with notice to appear at a deportation hearing. He is

charged with over staying his authorized time of admission.

3/10/00 KHALIL is released from Federal Prison and turned over to INS for a
deportation hearing.

5/1/00 KHALIL is ordered deported from the United States as an overstay alien
and an aggravated felon based on the NY conviction. KHALIL remains in INS custody.

3/15/01 KHALIL may have been deported to Jordan on this date but INS file is
unclear.

Gazi Ibrahim ABU MEZER

FOB: Jordan
DOB: 10/2/73
A75 101 910

9/14/93 ABU MEZER arrives in Canada on a student visa with the intention of
using Canada as a gateway to the United States.

9/23/93 ABU MEZER applies for a visa to enter the United States at AMCON
Toronto but is refused.

12/12/93 ABU MEZER applies for political asylum based on his fear of persecution
by Israel since he is a resident of the West Bank.

6/28/94 Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada approves refugee claim

application.

10/94 ABU MEZER is convicted of using a stolen credit card and is sentenced to
one year unsupervised probation

5/10/95 ABU MEZER receives a conditional discharge for simple assault an is put
on probation for one year

6/23/96 North Cascades National Park rangers respond to a report of hikers in

distress. They find ABU MEZER and locate Jamal Abed A90 098 808 six miles away.
They are both detained by the NFS near Ross Lake, Washington. They claimed to have
been hiking in the area but were not dressed like hikers. They are turned over to the
Border Patrol and processed. (BP arrest report notes under scars, marks, etc. that ABU
MEZER has an amputated right ring finger)

6/24/96 ABU MEZER and Abed agree to return to Canada voluntarily and are
returned to Canada

6/29/96 ABU MEZER is arrested by the Border Patrol near the Peace Arch Park in
Blaine, Washington. He again agrees to return to Canada and is voluntarily returned the
same day. (BP arrest report notes no scars, marks, etc. visible)

11/26/96 ABU MEZER is given permission to work and remain in Canada as a

student until 11/25/97.
1/14/97 ABU MEZER is arrested by the Border Patrol in Bellingham, Washington
along with Firas Taleb Mohammad A75 101 936 and Mohammad Khalil A73 442 758.
They are attempted to get to Seattle by bus. They are all charged with illegal entry and
processed for deportation hearings. The Border Patrol suspects that ABU MEZER is an
alien smuggler. (BP arrest report notes no scars, marks, etc. visible)

1/15/97 Order to Show Cause issued for illegal entry. ABU MEZER's bond is set
at $15,000 and he is detained. He requests that his bond be lowered.

1/27/97 ABU MEZER has a hearing before an Immigration Judge for the
Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR). ABU MEZER admits that he entered
the United States and has no permission to be in the United States. He states that he is
afraid to return to Israel. IJ Ho orders ABU MEZER deported to Canada. (U Ho did not
issue an alternate order of deportation to any other country).

1/28/97 Canada refuses to accept ABU MEZER as he has now left Canada where
he has political asylum three times.

1/29/97 Motion to Reopen Proceedings is granted as no alternate order of

deportation was given at preliminary hearing.

2/6/97 Despite having been convicted in Canada for two crimes, having illegally
entered the United States three times within the last seven months and being a suspected
alien smuggler, IJ Ho reduces the bail from $15,000 to $5,000 dollars.

2/12/97 EOIR schedules a hearing and tells ABU MEZER that he needs to have
his 1-589 request for political asylum completed by 3/5/97.

2/14/97 Hussam ABU-EISEH, 12329 Roosevelt Way NE #C-U03, Seattle, WA

posts $5,000 bail. ABU MEZER is released on $5,000 bail.

4/7/97 Deportation proceeding continued. ABU MEZER files for political

asylum and is served with a warning about the possible consequences of filing a frivolous
political asylum claim. Deportation proceedings continued with next hearing set for
1/20/98 (almost ten months).

4/8/97 Kaaren L. Barr, PO Box 15674, Boise, ID 83715 files notice that she will
represent ABU MEZER

4/16/97 ABU MEZER's attorney of record, . notified that hearing has been
rescheduled for 6/23/97

4/23/97 Office of Asylum Affairs and Department of State have no factual

information on ABU MEZER's claim.
6/12/97 ABU MEZER's attorney withdraws the political asylum claim as ABU
MEZER "intends to leave the United States prior to the date set for hearing in this
matter".

6/23/97 EOIR IJ Ho gives ABU MEZER voluntary departure until 8/23/97 with
an alternate order that if ABU MEZER does not leave by this date he will be deported to
Canada or Jordan. Judge notes that political asylum request has been withdrawn and an
application to withhold a deportation order.

7/31/97 ABU MEZER is arrested in NYC with four pipe bombs and detonators.
During the enforcement operation, ABU MEZER is shot. Also arrested is Lafi KHALIL

8/20/97 ABU MEZER and Lafi KHALIL are indicted for conspiracy to use and
carry a firearm (pipe bombs) and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction.

7/24/98 ABU MEZER is found guilty of three charges: planning to employ a

weapon of mass destruction, threatening to use such a weapon and having a weapon of
mass destruction.

3/1/99 ABU MEZER is sentenced to two life sentences plus 30 years.

7/24/00 ABU MEZER writes from prison to INS requesting his $5,000 bail be
returned.

(Source: DOJ OIG Special Report: Bombs in Brooklyn)

Boiinka Plot 1995

Abdul Hakim MURAD

Wall KHAN

Bombing of U.S. Embassies in Africa August 7,1998

 Ali Abou El Seoud MOHAMMED

FOB: Egypt
DOB: 6/3/52
A27 150 378

There must be a GAO, IG or some internal report on this case.

3/71 - 3/84 MOHAMMED claims to have been in the Egyptian Army rising to the
rank of Major he also joined the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization (Source: Court
transcript of his guilty plea)

3/84 - 9/85 MOHAMMED claims to have worked for Egypt Airlines. MOHAMMED
» I
8/20/85 MOHAMMED receives a B-2 visa #019954 at AMCON Alexandria,
Egypt.

9/6/85 MOHAMMED enters the United States at NYC as a B-2 visitor with an
authorized stay until 9/6/85.

10/26/85 MOHAMMED marries Linda Lee Sanchez in Reno, Nevada. Sanchez has
been married before and is divorced. MOHAMMED claims that he met Sanchez on his
flight to the United States. After arriving in US, she went to California and he went to
NYC. He then flies to California and they get married. She is ten years older than
MOHAMED and maintains her residence in Santa Clara, CA.
9/11 Classified
Information
11/13/85 Linda Sanchez files an 1-130 petition to apply for an immigrant visa for
her husband MOHAMMED.

5/15/86 The 1-130 petition is approved by INS San Francisco.

6/10/86 MOHAMMED enters as a lawful permanent resident at San Francisco,

CA.

8/15/86 MOHAMMED enlists in the U.S. Army. He lectures and teaches on

Middle Eastern culture and country briefings at the JFK Special Warfare Center. He
forms a close association with Mustapha SHALABI of the ALKIFAH Refugee Center in
Brooklyn and with El Sayyid NOSAIR who is serving a like sentence for the NY
Landmarks bombing.

12/7/89 MOHAMMED is discharged from the U.S. Army and naturalized in

Fayetteville, North Carolina.

1991 MOHAMMED helps UBL move from Afghanistan to Sudan.

1992 MOHAMMED trains al-Qaidah members in Afghanistan

1993 MOHAMMED is sent to Kenya to conduct surveillance on American,

British, French and Israeli targets.

1994 MOHAMMED trains al-Qaidah members and UBL's bodyguards in Sudan and is
sent to Djibouti to again conduct surveillance on various targets.

MOHAMMED flies back to the United States to speak to the FBI about the
upcoming trial of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman

1995 MOHAMMED obtains a copy of the co-conspirator list for the Rahman
trial. He sends it off to co-conspirator Whalid el-Hage in Kenya.

1998 I ^and is later arrested.

8/7/98 American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania are bombed.

10/20/00 MOHAMMED pleads guilty to five counts of conspiracy to murder,

kidnap and main U.S. citizens abroad and conspiracy to destroy U.S. national defense
sites.

This is a significant case as it illustrates how easy' it is to get residence based on marriage
to a US citizen. It also is an example of the delicate issue of non-citizens in the military
which can lead to naturalization. "
9/11 Closed by S t a t u t e
Khalid Abu Al Dahab

Wadih el HAGE

Essam al RIDI

Straights of Gibraltar

Zuher Hilal Mohammed al TBAITI

Millennium Plot December, 1999
Ahmed RESSAM AKA Benni Antoine NORIS
AKA Mario ROIG, Marc DQURI AKA Takar
MEDJADI AKA Sami BENIZA

FOB: Algeria
DOB:
A77 157 936

2/20/92 Ahmed RESSAM, a citizen of Algeria, enters France with a counterfeit

French passport in the name of Tahar Medijadi. He is allowed to visit France for one
month.

11/8/93 RESSAM is arrested on the French island of Corsica. He now has a

fraudulent French passport in the name of Nasser RESSAM. He is charged with
immigration violations but is released on his own recognizance.

2/20/94 RESSAM flies to Montreal, Canada. He presents the photo substituted

French passport in the name of Tahar Medijadi. Canadian immigration officials question
the validity of the passport. RESSAM admits it is fraudulent. He is arrested and
detained. He fabricates a story of political oppression, torture and harassment in Algeria
and claims political asylum. He is released on bond and given a hearing date. (Source 1)

3/94 RESSAM does not appear for his immigration hearing. His political
asylum claim is denied and he is arrested again but he is released again and given another
court date. He lives on welfare and stealing from Montreal tourists. He is arrested twice
but never sentenced to jail.
3/96 The Armed Islamic Group (GIA), an Algerian based terrorist group is
involved in an attempted car bombing of the G-7 ministers conference in Lille, Belgium.
The terrorists are tracked to northern France where a shootout takes place at their hideout.
One of the terrorists, Kristoff Kasz, is killed. The telephone number for RESSAM's
apartment in Montreal is found in the electronic organizer recovered from the dead
terrorist. The France authorities pass the telephone number to the Canadian Security
Intelligence Service (CSIS). (Source 1)

1997 RESSAM stays with other Algerians in Montreal.

3/98 CSIS maintains surveillance on RESSAM's apartment. They overhear

conversations that RESSAM is going to Afghanistan for terrorist training. CSIS puts his
name, Ahmed RASSAM on a special Canadian immigration lookout list. RESSAM
leaves Canada on a flight to Germany.

He now is using a Canadian passport in the name of Benni Antoine Noris. The passport
was issued by the Canadian government based on a forged baptismal certificate presented
by Leo NKOUNGA, an illegal alien in Canada from Cameroon. NKOUNGA was a
document dealer in Montreal with a long criminal record. He had been in Canada
illegally since 1988 and had been ordered deported at least three times. (Note:
NKOUNGA may have gotten another Canadian passport for Ressam in the name of Sami
KADAMAN. He moves on to Pakistan where he meets Abu Zubaida , one of Osama
Bin Laden's top lieutenants. Abu Zubaida later tells him to steal as many Canadian
passports as possible.

RESSAM then travels to the al-Qaida run terrorist training camp in Khalden,
Afghanistan. He receives training in firearms, self defense and hand to hand combat. He
then goes to another camp he learns how to make bombs.

After his training, RESSAM returns to Pakistan He flies to Seoul, South

Korea then on to the United States.

2/7/99 RESSAM arrives at the Los Angeles International Airport on his return to
Canada. He is inspected by the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service.
His Canadian passport in the name of Benni Antoine Noris is checked. There is no
lookout in the name of Noris. RESSAM is allowed to go on to Canada. RESSAM tore out
the passport pages that had stamps indicating travel to Afghanistan.

Before he departs the United States, he studies the layout of the Los Angeles airport. He
also has with him a notebook on how to make bombs and concealed in shampoo bottle is
glycol and in a Tylenol bottle is hexamine, both bomb making chemicals. He travels back
to Montreal.

11/99 RESSAM flies to Vancouver and begins to manufacture the explosives

and construct the timing devices.
12/14/99 Ahmed RESSAM is inspected by U.S. Immigration and Naturalization
Inspectors in Victoria, British Colombia as he boards a ferry to the state of Washington.
He is using a Canadian passport in the name of Benni Antoine Noris and claiming to be a
business man. The INS inspector looks in the trunk of the car but does not look in the
spare tire compartment. RESSAM is admitted to the United States and allowed to drive
onto the ferry. Canadian citizens do not need visas to visit the US.

RESSEM drives off the ferry and is inspected by US Customs at Port Angeles,
Washington. RESSAM tells the Customs Inspector that he is going to Seattle on
business. However he is taking three ferries instead of driving directly from Vancouver
to Seattle, a three hour drive. The inspector also observes that Ressam is nervous,
fumbling and sweating. (Ressam had contracted malaria at the terrorist training camp in
Afghanistan. The inspector opens the trunk and looks in the spare tire compartment. It
contains chemicals. RESSAM is questioned and runs from the officials. He is later
captured not far from the port. He is arrested for evading the Customs Inspectors. The
spare tire compartment contains homemade explosives and timing devices.

10/00 Canadian authorities turn over evidence seized from Ressam's apartment
in Montreal. A map of Los Angeles is turned over that has LAX and two other airports
circled.

4/6/01 RESSAM is convicted of nine Federal charges including conspiracy to

commit an international act of terrorism, explosives smuggling and lying to customs
officials. RESSAM is convicted in absentia in France for his involvement in terrorist
plot. He is sentenced to five years imprisonment.

1. (Source: Trial transcript United States vs. Ahmed Ressam, AKA Benni Norris,
JulyS, 2001)
2. (Source: Transcript United States vs. Mokhtar Haouari, April 2, 2001
3. (Source: Seattle

Abdel Hakim TIZEGHA aka TIZGHA

DOB: 10/10/70 Algeria
DOE: Unknown, claims Miami in 1985 and Boston in 1993, both as a
stowaway
A73 603 119

4/3/95 SUBJECT files INS Form 1-589 application for political asylum. Claims
to have entered at Miami on 6/18/85 in an unknown way. Claims no employment for the
last five years. Claims to have passport 3677529 (Algerian?). Claims to belong to a
human rights group in Algeria and had been threatened by Muslim fundamentalists.
 The following specimen was recovered from Kinko's Store #0917,14225 Baltimore
Avenue, Laurel, Maryland from Danielle Johnson, Manager, and submitted to the
Laboratory under cover of communication dated October 16, 2001 (011017017 HC HO
EZ):

K2420 One (1) Visa credit card receipt, account number 4158740011865303, dated
August 28, 2001 from Kinko's, Laurel, MD, in the amount of $25.52
(1B1972, Barcode E01920690)

The following specimens were recovered from John Davis Love, Sr., Security
Supervisor, Giant Food, 924 Autumn Valley Lane, Gambrills, Maryland on 9/13/01 and
submitted to the Laboratory under cover of communication dated October 15, 2001
(011017018 HC HO EZ):

K2421 Western Union form dated 9/8/01, control #8816503669, from MOHAMED
ATTA to MUSTAFA AHMAD (your IB 1987, Barcode EO1920614)
K2422 Western Union money transfer receipt #93822241 -7, dated 9/8/01, (your
1B1987, Barcode E01920614)
K2423 Giant cash register receipt for a $5215.00 Western Union money transfer
dated 9/8/01 (your 1B1987, Barcode E01920614)

Remarks:
The K2395 through K2397, K2402 through K2407, and K2418 through
K2423 specimens have been photographed in the event additional examinations are
requested in the future.

The remaining laboratory examinations are continuing and you will be

subsequently advised concerning the results and the disposition of specimens K2395 through
K2397, K2402 through K2407, and K2418 through K2423, as well as items NE223 and
NE224.

Lorie L. Gottesman
Questioned Documents Unit
(202) 324-8979

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aa LABORATORY
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20535

_Date: March 7, 2002

To: SAC, Newark
C-6

ID NO.: 265A-NY-280350-W
Lab NO.: 020117004 HC HL HO EZ FY
020117005HCHOEZ
020117006HCHOEZ
020117008HCHLHOEZ
Reference: Communications dated January 12, 2002, 020117010 HCHL HO EZ
January 15, 2002, January 14, 2002, and 020117011 HCHOEZ
January 16, 2002 (3) 020118004HCHOEZ
Your No.:

Title: PENTTBOM;
MAJOR CASE 182

Date specimens received: January 17, 2002 (6) and January 18, 2002
Specimens:
The following specimens were recovered on 9/18/01 at 486 Union Avenue, Patterson, NJ
and were submitted to the Laboratory under cover of communication dated January
12, 2002 (020117004 HC HL HO EZ FY):
K2865 Tissues (1B860, item #3, barcode E01889848)
K2866 Multi-colored blanket (1B860, item #4, barcode E01889848)
K2867 Vacuuming from bedroom (1B860, item #5, barcode E01889848)
5C2868 Vacuuming from bedroom (1B860, item #6, barcode E01889848)
Enclosure
^ New York (Enclosure) —-~ 40/• /y
*f 7/ /
1 - Mr. James Fitzgerald, Room 1B999 (Enclosure)

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 K2869 Control carpet sample (1B860, item #7, barcode EO1889848)

K2S70 Vacuuming from bathroom (1B860, item #8, barcode E01889848)

K2871 Headofmop(lBS60, item #9, barcode E01889848)

K2872 Green "Dono" flight bag (1B860, item #10, barcode E01889848)

K2873 Cushion (1B860, item #11, barcode E01889848)

K2S74 Two (2) pieces of red cloth (1B860, item #12, barcode E01889848)

K2875 Clothing patterns, rags, measuring tape, and two (2) plastic bags (1B860, item
#13, barcode E01889848)
K2876 Piece of red cloth (1B860, item #14, barcode E0188984S)

K2877 Eleven (11) plastic hangers (1B860, item #17, barcode E01889848)
K2878 "E-Z Wider" package and papers (1B860, item #19, barcode E01889848)
K2879 Five (5) bars of soap (1B860, item #15, barcode E01889458)
K2880 Soap wrapper (1B860, item #16, barcode E01889454)
K2881 Elimination fingerprints of MIGMAPJE TTRADO (1B860, item #21, barcode
E01889454)
K2882 Elimination fingerprints of OMAR MONTANEZ (1B860, item #21, barcode
E01889454)
K2883 One-page document with Arabic writing (1B860, item #1, barcode
E01889764)
K2884 Pan Am pilot training booklet (1B860, item #2, barcode E01889764)

The following specimens were recovered on 9/12/2001 at Tony Shakkour Agency, 859
Main Street, Paterson, NJ and were submitted to the Laboratory under cover of
communication dated January 15, 2002 (020117005 HC HO EZ):
K2885 Mailbox agreement under the name SALEM AL HAZMI (IB 1100, barcode
E01889847)
K2886 Application for Delivery of Mail Through Agent (1B1100, barcode
E01889847)
K2887 Two (2) photocopies containing images of passport, #C5 82647, and New
Jersey Photo Identification Card both under the name of SALEM M AL
HAZMI (IB 1100, barcode E01889847)

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 K2888 Two (2) photocopies of Virginia Identification Card, #A69-60-03S5 , under
the name of ABDUL AZIZ AL OMARI (1BI100, barcode E01889847).
Non-Evidentiarv Item:

NE505 Folder labeled "179" (1B1100, barcode E01889847)

Subjects associated with the hijackings of United Airlines flights #93, United Airlines
flight "175, American Airlines flight #11, and American Airlines flight #77, completed
applications for identification cards from Apollo International Travel. The following
specimens were recovered on 9/20/01, from Apollo International Travel, 1009 Main
Street, Paterson, NJ and were submitted to the Laboratory under cover of
communication dated January 14, 2002 (020117006 HC HO EZ):
K2890 Envelope addressed to USAJD (1B1263, item #3A, barcode E01889696)
K2891 USAJD Application for Photo ED Card under the name MICHAEL A. NASIF
and two (2) color photographs, one (1) attached and one (1) loose (1B1263,
item #3 A, barcode E01889696)
K2892 USAJD Application for Photo ID Card under the name MOHAMMAD K.
NASIF, with an attached color photograph (IB 1263, item #3 A, barcode
E01889696)
K2893 Photocopy of USAID Application for Photo ID Card under the name NAWAF
ALHAZMI with four (4) attached color photographs, and photocopy of
Florida Driver License A425-633-76-288-0 (IB 1263, item #3 A, barcode
. E01889696)
K2894 Photocopy of USATD Application for Photo ID Card under the name
AHMAD S. ALGHAMDI with an attached color photograph, and
photocopied page from Saudi Arabia passport # C317968 (IB 1263, item #3A,
barcode E01889696)
K2895 Photocopy of USAJD Application for Photo ID Card under the name MAJED
M. MOQED with an attached color photograph, two (2) photocopied pages
from passport # C390833, and photocopy of two (2) USA ID cards (IB 1263,
item #3 A, barcode E01889696) ' -
K2896 Photocopy of International Drivers License, photocopy of USAJD Photo ID
Card under the name IMAD KHALEEL JAFFAL, and an attached color
photograph (1B1263, item #3A, barcode E01889696)
K2897 Photocopy of USAJD Application for Photo ED Card under the name SUZAN
A. AVED'lSSIAN with an attached color photograph (IB 1263, item #3 A,
barcode EO1889696)
K2898 Photocopy of USAID Application for Photo ED Card under the name
SERIEYH E. HAMAD with an attached color photograph (IB 1263, item #3A,
barcode E01S89696)

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 KL2899 Photocopy of USAJD Application for Photo ED Card under the name SUHAIR
T. HAiVLMAD with an attached color photograph (IB 1263, item #3A barcode
E01889696)

K2900 Photocopy of US AID Application for Photo ED Card under the name ADNAN
FARAJ with an attached color photograph (IB 1263, item #3A barcode
E01889696)

K2901 Photocopy of USAJD Application for Photo ED Card under the name EED K.
HAMMAD with an attached color photograph (1B1263, item £3A barcode
E01889696)

K2902 USAJD Application for Photo ED Card under the name FARAJ A FARAJ
(1B1263, item #3A, barcode E01889696)
K2903 Photocopy of USAJD Application for Photo ED Card under the name RIYAD
ABUARQUB(1B1263, item #3A, barcode E01889696)
K2904 Photocopy of USAJD Application for Photo ED Card under the name
KHALID ALMIHDHAR and photocopied page from Saudi Arabia passport #
C551754 (1B1263, item #3A, barcode E01889696)
K2905 Photocopy of USAJD Application for Photo ED Card under the name SALEM
ALHAZMI and photocopied page from Saudi Arabia passport # C582647
(IB 1263, item #3A, barcode E01889696)
K2906 Two (2) photocopies of USAJD Application for Photo ED Card under the
name ABDULAZIZ ALOMARI and photocopied page from Saudi Arabia
passport # C165015 (IB 1263, item #3A, barcode E01889696)
K2907 Photocopy of two-page USA ID Application for Photo ED Card under the name
MOHAMED ATTA and photocopy of two (2) USA ID cards (IB 1263, item
#3A, barcode E01889696)
K2908 Photocopy of USAJD Application for Photo ED Card under the name
MAHMOUD ALSSENDAWJ (IB 1263, item #3 A, barcode E01889696)
K2909 Photocopy of US AID Application for Photo ED Card under the name FAKIR
S. FAKIR (IB 1263, item #3A, barcode E01889696)
K2910 - Photocopy of USAED Application for Photo ED Card under the name FAIZA
JATKAR (IB 1263, item #3A, barcode E01889696)
K2911 Photocopy of USAJD Application for Photo ED Card under the name
TAWFIQ A. SHEJAEYA (1B1263, item #3A, barcode E01889696)
K2912 • Photocopy of USAJD Photo Identification cards under the names of FIDAM.
SHEJAEYA and TAWFIQ A.'SHEJAEYA (IB 1263, item #3A, barcode
E01889696)

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 K2913 Photocopy of US AID Photo Identification cords under the names of KHALED
ALiVflHDHAR, SALEM ALHAZMI, and NAWAP ALHAZMI (IB 1263.
item #3 A, barcode EO1889696)
Non-Evidentiarv Items:

NE508 US AID folder with miscellaneous documents (IB 1263 item #3 A barcode
E01889696)

The following specimens were recovered on 9/22/01 from a Chrysler Sebring with V1N
1C3AL56U01N536314 and NJ plate # KPY-98U, previously rented by suspected
hijackers NAWAJF ALHAZMI and HANI HANJOUR, and were submitted to the
Laboratory under cover of communication dated January 16, 2002 (020117008 HC HL
HO EZ):
K2915 Vacuuming of the trunk (1B1172, item #1, barcode E01889547)
K2916 Vacuuming of the interior compartment (1B1172, item #2, barcode
E01889547)
K2917 Midtown Tunnel receipt dated 6/26/01 (1B1172, item #3, barcode
E01889547)
The following specimens were recovered on 9/22/01 from a Chrysler Concord wit VTN
2C3AD36J61H547835 and NJ plate # KSH-72R, previously rented by suspected
hijackers NAWAF ALHAZMI and HANI HANJOUR, and were submitted to the
Laboratory under cover of communication dated January 16, 2002 (020117010 HC HL
HO EZ):
K2919 Vacuuming of the trunk (1B1169, item #1, barcode E01889548)
K2920 Vacuuming of the interior compartment (IB 1169, item #2, barcode
E01889548)
K2921 Page bearing hand printed travel directions beginning "BeRkeley HiGTHS..."
(IB 1169, item #3, barcode E01889548)
The following specimens were recovered on 9/12/01 from Mail Boxes ECT., 96 Linwood
Plaza, Fort Lee, NJ and were submitted to the Laboratory under cover of
communication dated January 16, 2002 (020117011 HC HO EZ):
K2933 PS Form 1583 Application for Delivery of Mail Through Agent under the
names of NAWAF ALHAZMI and HAM HANJOOR (1B899, item #3,
barcode E01889549)
K2934 Mail Boxes Etc. Mailbox Service Agreement under the names of NAWAF
ALHAZMI and HANI HANJOOR (1B899, item #2, barcode E01889549)

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 A red Mitsubishi Galant with NJ plate LJE87L was utilized by suspected hijackers of
United Airlines flight #93. The following rental agreement was recovered from Budget
Rent A Car at Newark International Airport, and was submitted to the Laboratory
under cover of communication dated January 16, 2002 (020118004 HC HO EZ):

K2930 " Budget rental agreement dated 9/07/01, under the name ZIAD S. JAURAH
(1B1862, Barcode E01889546)

Remarks:
The results of the questioned document examinations are included in this
report. The remaining requested laboratory examinations are continuing and you will be
subsequently advised concerning the results and the disposition of the K2865 through K2888,
K2890 through K2913, K2915 through K2917, K2919 through K2921, K2930, K2933, and
K2934 specimens as well as non-evidentiary items NE 505 and NE508.
A digital record of specimens K2883 through K2888, K2893 through K2895,
K2904 through K2907, K2917, K2921, K2930, K2933, and K2934 is retained.

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LABORATORY /7 « \L BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

WASHINGTON, D. C. 20535

Report o f Examination

Examiner Name: Lorfe L. GottCSman Date: March 7, 2002

Unii: Questioned Documents Phone No.: (202)324-8979

case iD NO.: 265A-NY-280350-W ub NO.. 020117004 HC HL HO EZ FY

020117005 HC HO EZ
020117006HCHOEZ
020117008HCHLHOEZ
020117010 HCHL HO EZ
020117011HC HO EZ
020118004 HC HO EZ
Results of Examinations:
Indented writing of unknown value was observed on the K2933 specimen.
For your investigative assistance, a photocopy of this indented writing is enclosed.
The original identification card of "Salem AJhazmi" depicted in the K2887
and K2913 photocopies was previously submitted as Q409 under laboratory number
010921019.
The K2895 photocopied Visa page of passport #0390833 was previously
submitted as a photocopy under laboratory number 011017007 (K2396).
The original passport page depicted in the K2906 photocopy was previously
submitted as Kl 17 under laboratory number 010917003.
The original identification card of "Nawaf Alhazmi" depicted in the K2913
photocopy was previously submitted as K792 under laboratory number 010919028.

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

WASHINGTON, Eh C. 20535

Date: September 15, 2001

TO: ADIC, Washington Field Office

Case ID No.: 265D-NY-280350

Lab NO, 010913 004 HC EZ HO

010913005 HCEZ HO
010913007 HCEZ HO

Reference: Communications dated September 13, 2001

Your No.:

Title: PENTBOMB;
TWIN TOWERS BOMBING;
MULTISTAT BOMBING;
AOT

Date specimens received: September 13, 2001

Specimens:
The following specimen was personally delivered to the laboratory by Stephen Michael
Campbell of the Washington Field Office (010913004 HC EZ HO):

K34 United States Customs Declaration dated May 2, 2001 under the name of MATED
MASHAAN MOQED (your 1B66)
The following specimen was personally delivered to the laboratory by Stephen Michael
Campbell of the Washington Field Office (010913005 HC EZ HO):
K35 United States Customs Declaration dated May 2, 2001 under the name of AHMED
SALEH SAID AL GAMDI (your 1B67)

1 - Pittsburgh
1 - New York

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 The following specimens were personally delivered by Patrick J. Howley of the
Pittsburgh Field Office (010913007 HC EZ HO):

Q6 SunTrust VISA check card # 4011 8060 7080 4835 in the name of ZIAD S. JARRAH
(your item# 10)

Q7 Passport under the name of ZIAD JARRAH (your item# 13)

Remarks:
The results of the questioned document examinations are included in this
report. The remaining requested examinations are continuing and you will be subsequently
advised concerning the results and the disposition of the submitted specimens.

Photographs of the K34, K35, Q6 and Q7 specimens are retained.

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

WASHINGTON, D. C. 20535
Report of Examination

Examiner Name: Lorie L. GottCSman Date: September 15, 2001

unit: Questioned Documents Phone NO, (202)324-8979
case ID NO, 265D-NY-280350 tab NO, 010913004HCEZHO
010913005 HCEZ HO
010913007 HCEZ HO
Results of Examinations:
Pursuant to information obtained by the Immigration and Naturalization
Service, the Q7 specimen is consistent with an authentic Lebanese passport. Should
additional information be requested concerning this specimen, please call Supervisory
Forensic Document Examiner John James Ross, Jr. or Chief Intelligence Officer James R.
Hesse at (703) 2852482.
Specimens Q6, Q7, K34, and K35 have been photographed should additional
document examinations be requested.

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REQ #20-1 and 2 000000274
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U.S. CUSTOMS SERVICE

9/11 Working-level Employee

Seizure No
O.E. Case No.
CF-6051 No.
Seizing Officers)
Witnessing Officers) _
Violator

Date/Time of \r
Description

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Gross Weight.

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 9/11 Working-level Employee

4/18/95 Notified to appear for a political asylum interview in Boston

5/9/95 TIZEGHA is interviewed by INS asylum officer arid his 1-589 application
is reviewed.

5/17/95 Review of political asylum claim by INS Asylum Officer|_

determined that SUBJECT was ineligible for asylum as the facts in his 1-589 were
disputed by the applicant himself during the asylum interview and that he had no
creditable grounds for political asylum.

SUBJECT was also processed by asylum officer for Order to Show Cause in
Deportation proceedings based on his admission to entry without inspection by an INS
officer in his political asylum application.

5/18/95 INS issues an Order to Show Cause document to place TIZEGHA into
deportation proceedings for violation of Section 241 (a)(l)(B) of the Immigration and
nationality Act (INA) for entry into the United States without inspection by an INS
officer based on Subject's claim to the 1985 Miami entry (unsupported by any records or
documents).

6/10/95 SUBJECT notified by mail that his political asylum claim had been denied
by INS.

7/12/95 TEZIGHA appears for a scheduled deportation hearing. He brings a

friend, only identified as OMAR, to the hearings to act as his interpreter. During the
initial portion of the deportation hearings, TEZIGHA requests an attorney, Hearing
adjourned to enable TEZIGHA to get counsel.

11/17/95 TEZIGHA appears for scheduled deportation hearing with his attorney,
Eric L. Levine, Esq. (deportation hearings are administrative and the government does
not provide legal counsel). Attorney Levine states that he has not had time to review the
case. Hearing adjourned.

6/26/96 Deportation hearing scheduled. Adjourned.

9/11/96 TIZGHA appears for scheduled deportation hearing but his attorney is
unavailable. Hearing adjourned.

11/27/96 Scheduled deportation hearing. TIZEGHA appears with his attorney.

Attorney requests that the judge conduct a deportation hearing and a hearing on the
merits of the political asylum claim. Case adjourned.

4/10/97 TIZEGHA appears with counsel. The Immigration Judge conducts a

deportation hearing and a hearing on the Subject's political asylum claim. During the
hearing TIZEGHA changes many of the statements he made in his 1-589 political asylum
application. He claims that after entering on a cruise ship from Algeria as a stowaway, he
stayed in Miami for about a year and a half. He only worked for a week. He then flew
home to Algeria.

He now says that he last entered the United States at Boston, Massachusetts as a
stowaway on the vessel "Mustapha Ben Boulaid" and was not inspected by an INS
officer. He says that his father works for a gas company SONATRACH as a seaman.

Note: SONATRACH is the international energy company of the Algerian government.

SONATRACH operates oil and gas production facilities, pipelines, storage facilities and
liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers. One of these tankers is the "Mustapha Ben
Boulaid". It is about 950' in length with a capacity of 125,260 cubic meters of gas and is
named for one of the leaders of the FLN- the revolutionary committee of unity and
action. The tanker delivers LNG to the Port of Boston from Algeria. The crew is
Algerian. The movement of LNG tankers through the port of Boston has always been a
security and safety concern. The city of Boston is wrapped around the relatively small
harbor and the inlet to the sea passes next to the runways at Logan Airport. After 9-11,
the Coast Guard and Boston officials prohibited the movement of LNG tankers into
Boston. It was only at the end of October, 2001 that a Federal court ordered the Port of
Boston to permit the entry of the LNG tankers. Very extensive security measures were
put in place. Boston officials believe that a terrorist act could result in a major leak. This
could lead to a catastrophic fire or explosion.
The Immigration judge ruled that TIZEGHA does not have a valid claim to political
asylum and that he entered the United States illegally and is in violation of the
immigration laws. Although TIZEGHA has admitted to entering the United States on
two occasions without inspection by the INS, the government does not oppose
TIZEGHA's request to depart the United States voluntarily instead of being deported.
(TIZEGHA claimed to have an Algerian passport at his residence but did not produce it
in court and there is no record of it in the immigration file.)

The Immigration Judge gives TIZEGHA until May 12, 1997 to leave the United States
voluntarily. His attorney is informed that he has thirty days to appeal the judge's
decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals.

5/8/97 Attorney Joseph F. O'Neil files a notice of appearance and files an appeal
of the Immigration Judge's order to the Board of Immigration Appeals. While the appeal
is pending, TIZEGHA can remain in the United States.

9/3/97 TIZEGHA files a change of address from 80 W. Broadway, 3rd floor,

South Boston, MA to 201 Lexington St., 3rd floor, East Boston, MA.

1/20/98 SUBJECT arrested under the name of Ali MASSA by the Boston Police,
Boston, Massachusetts for shoplifting over $200 and he is released on his own
recognizance. (Note: Arrest report shows MASSA to be 6'2" and 220 Ibs and has
Massachusetts D/L S7880/0880. Other INS arrest reports show TIZEGA as 5'9" and
180 Ibs.)

1/22/98 Boston Police issue a warrant of arrest for MASSA when he does not
appear for court

2/20/98 Attorney O'Neil files a motion to withdraw from the case as he cannot
contact his client. Notice goes to INS Boson and the BIA.

Winter of 1998 TIZEGHA may have moved to the Seattle area.

6/29/99 The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) rules to uphold the decision of
the Immigration Judge in denying the application for political asylum and the decision
that TIZEGHA is illegally in the United States. The BIA again gives TIZEGHA thirty
(30) days to depart the United States voluntarily or be deported.

8/99 May have gone to Vancouver, British Colombia and filed for refugee
status

9/16/99 INS does not have any verification of TIZEGHA departing the United
States voluntarily. The Boston INS deportation unit sends TIZEGHA a form 1-166
ordering him to report to the Boston office on 10/18/99 for deportation to Algeria.

10/18/99 TIZEGHA fails to appear at INS for his deportation.

 /9/11 Working-level Employee

TIZEGHA has a Massachusetts Drivers License in the name of Abdelhakim TIZEGHA,

271 Chelsea St; Apt. 34, Everett, MA 02149. DLS55093073 shows height of 5'9" and
weight of 185 Ibs. (Note: The Mystic River in Everettj -MA is where the LNG tankers
dock and the gas is pumped off into storage tanks.)

11/99 / May have re-entered the United States in Northern Washington State

12/24/99 / TIZEGHA is arrested in Bellevue, WA by INS Special Ageri

I bf Seattle INV. SUBJECT encountered after INS Seattle Investigations
responded to call from Bellevue, Washington Police Department investigating another
alien, Abderraouf BENCHELFI, A78 165 504 for shoplifting. TIZEGHA fled the place
of encounter but was apprehended by law enforcement officers.

When SUBJECT is processed by INS officers, he claims to have entered US as stowaway

from a ship in Boston in 1994. He also claimed to be residing at 271 Chelsea St. Apt 34,
Everett, MA 02149. A Warrant of Arrest was also outstanding in Bellevue, WA for
shoplifting. The Boston Police Department warrant was also found.

12/27/99 Notice To Appear for deportation hearing as an illegal alien.

Detainer placed with U.S. Marshals.

***EOIR-28 dated 1/21/200 in the case of Paulino FLORES-Delgado in file. Appears to

have been filed in error.

Adelqhani MESKINI aka Eduardo ROCHA

DOB: 2/24/68 FOB: Algeria ?

DOE: 1/6/95 BOS Stowaway ? (Same way as TIZEGHA?)
A76 164 808
MESKINI was involved in the Millennium plot. His name was found in RESSAM's car.
He testified that he assisted RES SAM and Mokhtar HAOUARI for the attack. He took
forged identification to the West Coast to assist the plotters. He was arrested in NYC.
Only scratch 1-213 and detainer in 9-11 file.

Need A file.

Moktar HAOUARI

FOB: Algeria
DOB: 1/1/69
A73 127 182

3/10/00 The government of the United States makes a formal request for the
extradition of HAOUARI from Canada.

8/12/00 HAOUARI is paroled into the US to stand trial on charges of fraud,

providing material support to terrorism, conspiracy etc. (It appears that INS did not
inspect and parole HAOUARI when his plane landed at the Teterboro, NJ airport.)

7/13/01 Convicted at trial in NY Southern district of conspiracy to provide

material support to a terrorist act, 18 USC 371, and four counts of fraud, 18 USC 371,
18 USC 1028 (2) and (7) and 18 USC 1029(a)(2).

1/16/02 HAOUARI is sentenced to 24 years imprisonment

1/27/03 US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals upholds the sentence.

12/06/20 Projected release date from BOP (44949-054)

Abdelmaiid DAHOUMANE AKA Adel MAJID
AKA Le Rougi

FOB: Algeria
DOB: 1/1/67
No INS

DAHOUMANE was involved with Ahmad RESSAM and others in the Millennium plot.
He and RESSAM mixed the explosives at a motel in Vancouver. DAHOUMANE did
not enter the US with RESSAM. He later fled Canada.

3/25/01 DAHOUMANE is arrested by the Algerian Security Forces on his return

from Afghanistan.

Fateh KAMEL
No INS FILE (Work file only)
Ran Montreal cell of Maghreb Arab cluster. RESSAM was part of this. Involved in
bombing plot for G-7 meeting. Convicted in France of supporting terrorist activities.
Sentenced to 8 years. .

Raed HIJAZI

Adil CHARKAOUI

U.S.S. Cole Bombing Yemen October 12, 2000

Post 9-11 Al Qaeda in U.S./Suspected Al Qaeda
Hijacker associates/Hamburg Associates

Other 9-11 Affiliates

Khaled Shaikh MOHAMMAD AKA Khaled

SHAIKH. Salem ALL Abu-Khuala, Ashraf
Nabiah HENIM, Abdul Rahman A.A. AL-
GHAMDI

FOB: Kuwait, naturalized citizen of Pakistan

DOB: 4/14/65, March 1, 1964 or September 24, 1965
A74 241 729

1982 or 1983 MOHAMMED comes to the United States to study at Chowan College,
Murfreesboro, NC. He takes English and then transfers to NC A & T University.

1986 MOHAMMED graduates with an engineering degree from North Carolina

Agricultural and Technical University. Greensboro, NC.

Note: No INS information has been received to show that MOHAMMED was here on a
student visa. Some references in news reports that he was in contact with Ali
MOHAMMED while MOHAMMED was in the Army at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, NC.

Considered third in the UBL command structure and central to most of the al
Qaeda attacks
3/1/03 Captured outside of Islamabad, Pakistan.

Mohammed AL KAHTANIAKA Muhammad

Ahmad AL-QAHTANI

FOB: Saudi Arabia

DOB: 11/17/75
A77 929 941
8/4/01 AL KAHTANI arrives at the Orlando, Florida International Airport. He has a
Saudi Arabian Passport and a B-l/B-2 Visa 44209655 issued in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on
7/14/2001. He has a one way ticket, $2,800 and requests six day for a visit. He is
referred to secondary inspection. At secondary inspection, he is elusive to questions
regarding his requested stay in the United States. CBP Inspector Jose Melendez conducts
the secondary inspection and AL KAHTANI again refuses to answer questions under
oath. AL KAHTANI is told that he will not be admitted and withdraws his application.
Note: Mohammed ATTA was waiting in the lobby of the airport at the time of AL
KAHTANI's attempted entry.

2002 AL KAHTANI is captured in Afghanistan/Pakistan and is taken to Guantanamo,

Cuba.

Eyad Mohammed Mohammed MUSTAFA aka

Eyad M. Mustafa ALRABABAH
FOB: JORDAN
DOB: 7/21/72
A78 392 527
Note: The DHS file had copies (poor quality) of two passports belonging to AL
RABABAH. Jordanian passport E041890 issued 3/8/94 and valid until 3/8/99 and
Jordanian passport G263860 issued 3/1/399 and valid until 3/12/04. Both passports
reflect extensive travel. Due to the quality of the copies and the fact that most entry exit
stamps are in Arabic, it is difficult to create a travel summary. There are many entry
visas for Saudi Arabia.

3/18/94 AL RABABAH enters Jordan

9/27/94 AL RABABAH leaves Jordan

8/28/96 AL RABABAH enters Jordan

7/9/97 AL RABABAH enters the United States at New York City as a B-2 tourist
and is given until 1/8/98 to remain. He uses a visa issued on 2/11/97 in Cairo, Egypt. He
is destined to 17 Brunswick Parkway, Newark, NJ. His entry is recorded by INS as Eyad
MUSTAFA. He departs the United States on 10/13/97.

9/16/98 AL RABABAH enters the United States at NYC as a B-2 visitor and is
given permission to remain until 3/15/99. He is destined to 627 Cook Ave., Paterson, NJ.
No departure date available.

3/6/99 AL RABABAH enters Jordan

3/21 /99 AL RABABAH enters the United States at New York City as a B-2 visitor
for pleasure and is admitted until 9/20/99. Visa issued in Egypt on 2/11/97.
He is destined to 562 Atlantic St., Bridgeport, CT.

10/12/00 Al RABABAH is arrested by the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles

for assisting persons to obtain Virginia driver's licenses and Virginia identification cards
through fraud. AL RABABAH later pled guilty to a misdemeanor offense.

1/01 AL RABABAH is arrested in Fall Church, VA on document fraud.

5/01 AL RABABAH says that he meets two Saudi males, "Nawaf' and "Hani"
at a 7-11 convenience store in Falls Church, Virginia. AL RABABAH tells them that he
can assist them in getting driver's licenses and is a translator. AL RABABAH later
moves to Connecticut.

6/01 AL RABABAH gets a call from his former roommate in Virginia the two
men he meet had tried to contact him. AL RABABAH speaks to one of the men "Nawif
(9-11 hijacker Nawaf Al Hazmi) who says that he has two other friends who would like
travel around. AL RABABAH drives to Virginia and picks up the four men. The next
day ALRABABH drives them to the Fairfield Motor Inn, Fairfield, Connecticut where
the four stay for two nights. (AL RABABAH identifies the four men as Ahmed al-
GHAMDI, Hani Hanjour, Majed Moqed, and Nawaf al Hamzi )

9/28/0 1 AL RABABAH voluntarily goes to the FBI office in New Haven,

Connecticut with information that he may have known some of the 9-11 hijackers. AL
RABABAH says that he has assisted four of the hijackers Hani Hanjour, Nawaf Alhazmi,
Ahmed Alghamdi and Majed Moqed.

The FBI contacts INS Hartford concerning AL RABABAH's immigration status.

Hartford INS sends two agents to New Haven and at 23:30 hours, they take AL
RABABAH into custody on the immigration violation. INS file A78 392 527 is created.

9/29/0 1 AL RABABAH is charged by Hartford, Connecticut INS with overstaying

his tourist visa in violation of INA Section 237(a)(l)(B) and is detained at the Hartford
Community Correctional Center.

9/30/01 NYC/SD Judge Loretta A. Preska issues a material witness warrant for AL
RABABH. AL RABABAH is transferred to the INS detention center in NYC. Change
of INS venue to NYC is recommended.

1 1/5/01 The FBI arrests AL RABABAH on a material witness warrant and places
him in the MCC. INS places a detainer on AL RABABAH and closes the immigration
proceeding administratively as AL RABABAH is not in INS custody.

1 1/16/01 A criminal complaint is filed in the US Court for the Eastern District of
Virginia against AL RABABAH charging him with knowingly and without lawful
authority produce an identity document, and aid and abet the same, when such production
was in and affected interstate commerce in violation of 18 USC 2 and 1028(a)(l),

A Federal Arrest Warrant is issued for Eyad M. ALRABABAH for the document
fraud case.

12/8/01 INS files a detainer with the US Marshal for the Eastern District of
Virginia where AL RABABAH is being detained.

5/20/02 AL RABABAH is sentenced to six months imprisonment and a special

assessment of $200. There is a special condition that AL RABABH will assist INS and
will not oppose any removal or deportation action.

6/30/02 Removal hearing scheduled. Postponed at request of AL RABABAH's

attorney.
7/23/02 Removal hearing scheduled. Postponed at request of AL RABABAH's
attorney.

7/30/02 AL RABABAH's attorney, Asian T. Soobzokov, requests that the bond in

the case be reduced so AL RABAHAH can marry his girlfriend a United States citizen
(USC). The sentence in AL RABABAH's criminal case directs AL RABABAH "not to
object to removal or deportation or file a petition for asylum or any other reliefer appeal
from removal or deportation". Hearing continued. AL RABABAH's attorney states that
he will get the special conditions in the sentence removed by the Federal court. (INS
determines that the special conditions that require AL RABABH to cooperate with INS is
unenforceable).

9/10/02 Removal hearing scheduled. Postponed at request of AL RABABAH's

attorney.

9/17/02 Removal hearing scheduled. Postponed at request of AL RABABAH's

attorney.

10/1/02 A video removal hearing was conducted but AL RABABAH's attorney

did not appear. AL RABABAH says that he has been harassed by the FBI and that the
Jordanian government will persecute him and the terrorists will track him down. Hearing
rescheduled.

10/17/02 Letter to INS from Charles E. Farm, Chief, International Terrorism

Operation Section II, Counterterrorism Division stating that AL RABABAH was of no
investigative interest to the FBI in the PENTBOM investigation.

10/22/02 Hearing held. AL RABABAH requests political asylum, protection from

torture, and relief from deportation. The Immigration Judge ruled that AL RABABAH
had not provided sufficient evidence to support his claims for relief and ordered him
removed from the United States.

11/4/02 AL RABABAH appeals his removal order to the Board of Immigration

Appeals. The BIA gives all parties until 1/29/03 to file briefs.

4/21/03 The Board of Immigration Appeals rules that the removal order of the
Immigration Judge stands.

5/13/03 Based on a final order by the Board of Immigration Appeals, AL

RABABAH ordered to be removed.

7/10/03 AL RABABAH is deported to Jordan via Paris.

Victor Manuel LOPEZ-Flores aka Victor

LOPEZ-Bonilla aka Alfredo JURADO
DOB: 12/19/67
FOB: El Salvador

9/19/91 LOPEZ is deported to El Salvador after a felony conviction

8/2/01 LOPEZ meets ALOMARI and ALGHAMDI near a Virginia Motor

Vehicle Office in Arlington, VA. LOPEZ agrees to assist them in getting an official
Virginia ID. He takes them to a local notary to get a fraudulent residence certificate.
They then return to the DMV and get IDs. They paid LOPEZ $80

10/24/01 Compliant filed against LOPEZ in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District
of Virginia for violation of 18 USC 1028(a)(l), (b)(l)(A)(ii) and (c) (A) fraud with
identification documents, unlawfully producing identity documents, 18 USC 2, aiding
and abetting. 8 USC 1326 (a)(b)(2) unlawful reentry of an alien who had been deported
subsequent to a conviction of aggravated felony.

10/25/01 LOPEZ is arrested on Federal charges.

11/19/01 LOPEZ pleads guilty

*See file LOPEZ sentenced to 27 months

Agus BUDIMAN
FOB: Indonesia
DOB: 6/20/70
A79 236 287
1992 BUDIMAN enrolls in the Polytechnic School in Hamburg.

1993 BUDIMAN claims to have visited his brother Achmad FAISAL in

Wisconsin. He applied for and received a social security card.

6/13/94 BUDIMAN is issued Indonesian passport D 664279 valid until 6/13/00

1998 BUDIMAN meets Ramzi BINALSHIBH whom he describes as a fanatic

and Mohammed El AMIR (ATTA). BINALSHIBH asked for BUDIMAN's address in
the US which he used on Ramzi's visa application (In FBI report). He also lives with
Mohammed Bin Nassar BELFAS (whom he later assisted in obtaining a fraudulent
Virginia identification card). BUDIMAN graduates from the University of Bremen,
Germany with a degree in architecture and engineering.

11/30/98 BUDIMAN is issued a B-l/B-2 visa at AMCON Berlin, Germany valid

until 11/26/03

12/31/98 BUDIMAN enters the US at Washington, DC as a B-2 and is admitted

until 6/30/99

1/21/99 BUDIMAN leaves the United States

5/18/99 BUDIMAN enters the US at BUDIMAN enters the US at Baltimore, MD

as B-2 and is admitted until 11/17/99 he is destined to 707 1500 Massachusetts ave.,
Washington, DC

7/2/99 BUDIMAN departs the United States

10/3/99 BUDIMAN enters the US at NYC as a B-2 and is admitted until 3/21/00

3/3/00 BUDIMAN departs the United States

5/10/00 BUDIMAN is issued Indonesian passport G759381 with validity until

5/10/05.

5/24/00 BUDIMAN enters the US at Chicago, IL as a B-2 permitted to stay until

11/22/00 destined to Faisal, 1500 Mass Ave, Washington, DC

7/9/00 BUBIMAN departs the United States

7/13/00 BUDIMAN enters Indonesia

9/14/00 BUDIMAN departs Indonesia

10/20/00 BUDIMAN enters the United States at Baltimore, MD as a B-2 visitor and
is permitted to remain until 4/19/01. He is destined to Faisal, 3823 Wendy Lane, Silver
Spring, MD. Traveling with BUDIMAN was Mohammed Bin Nassar Belfas who entered
on a B-2 visa. Belfas was born in Indonesia but was a citizen of Germany, his father was
from Yemen. Belfas used the Wendy Lane address on his visa application. (FBI report
says that Ziad JARRAH used the Wendy Lane address on his visa application.)

BUDIMAN works as a taxi driver for Take-Out-Taxi, Belfas rides with

him. Belfas wants a driver's license.

4/16/2001 BUDIMAN files an 1-539 to extend his B-2 status until 10/15/01 saying he
wants to visit friends in the United States and that he has money.

Petition is filed for an H-1B1 Specialty occupation non immigrant visa to work
for Tristate Development & Construction, Inc.

8/22/01 Petition for Non-Immigrant Worker is approved for BUDIMAN to work

for Tristate Development Construction. This is a firm that designs residential property.
The visa is anHlBl.

9/18/01 BUDIMAN is interviewed by the FBI relating to the events of 9-11.

10/1/01 BUDIMAN is interviewed again by the FBI again.

10/31 /01 BUDIMAN is investigated as part of the PENTBOM case and is arrested
by INS Arlington, VA at the request of the FBI as an alien who has overstayed time of
authorized stay. The FBI was concerned that BUDIMAN would leave the US.
11/1/01 A notice to appear is issued by INS for remaining in the United States
after period of admitted stay (INA Section 237(a)(l)(B)) and for employment without
permission of the INS (INA Section 237(a)(l)(C)(l)).

11/16/01 US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia issues a warrant for
the arrest of BUDIMAN for document fraud involving a Virginia State Identification
Card,

11/26/01 A detention hearing is held at the US District Court. The FBI starts to lay
out links between BUDIMAN and some of the 9-11 terrorists. The hearing is stopped
when BUDIMAN's court appointed lawyer, Greg English, tells the judge that he cannot
represent BUDIMAN because of his strong feelings about the Pentagon disaster.

2/21/02 BUDIMAN is indicted for conspiracy to commit identification fraud in

violation of 18 USC 1028(a)(l),(b)(l)(A)(ii), (c)(3)(A) and (f) and unlawful production
of identity documents in violation of 18 USC Section 1028(a)(l), (b)(l)(A)(ii) and
(c)(3)(A). BUDIMAN is accused of assisting Mohammad Bin Nasser BELFAS
to get a Virginia identification card fraudulently.

5/10/02 US District Judge Bruce Lee sentences BUDIMAN to seven months

imprisonment with a special condition that BUDIMAN cooperate with INS and not
oppose deportation on one count of document fraud.

6/27/02 BUDIMAN is now in INS custody. AUSA Robert A. Spencer, US

Attorney's Office for the Eastern District sends a letter to INS stating that BUDIMAN is
a witness in the case United States v. Zacarias Moussaoui .and that he wants the INS to
grant BUDIMAN advanced parole to reenter the US after he is deported, to give
BUDIMAN work authorization, to wave any fees and to require BUDIMAN to stay in
the DC area and report periodically to INS. AUSA Spencer does not want to issue a
material witness warrant and have BUDIMAN turned over to US Marshals custody.

7/5/02 Video removal hearing is scheduled for Arlington, VA.

7/29/02 Warrant of Deportation issued for the removal of BUDIMAN.

8/16/02 BUDIMAN is deported to Indonesia under escort by INS officers.

Ramzi Mohammed Abdellah BINALSHIBH

FOB: Yemen
DOB: 5/11/72 & 9/16/73

BINALSHIBH was a roommate of Mohammed Atta while they were students in

Germany. He was also an associate of Ziad JARRAH.

Arrested 9/11/02 in Pakistan.

Anwar Nasser AULAQI

SEE 3021 PROJECT #1 Samit ABDOUN
FOB: Yemen
DOB: 1971

1990 AULAQI enters the US as a J-l Exchange Visitor destined to Colorado

State University, Fort Collins, CO to be a student in a new civil engineering program.
The copy is poor but it appears that he was permitted to remain until 7/1/91. NOTE: His
financial costs were paid by USAID and he had passport G1226365.

Newspaper reports that AULAQI is a Muslim cleric who has been an imam at the Dar al-
Hijrah Islamic Center, Falls Church, VA and also at a San Diego mosque. He was a
"spiritual adviser" to Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Midhar. A member of the mosque
in Falls Church was Eyad al RABABAH who provided Virginia driver's licenses
obtained by fraud four of the hijackers. AULAQI's telephone number was found when
police raided Ramzi BINALSHIBH's apartment in Hamburg, German.

NOTE: Again, a newspaper article which noted the J-1 entry says that AULAQI using the
name al-Awalaki also entered the US at Chicago on 8/29/91 and on 1/29/92 at NYC. The
source of the information was DHS but we did not receive any record but the J-1.:

Omar A. M. Al-BAYOUMI
FOB: Saudi Arabia
DOB: 11/29/57

5/31/95 AL-BAYOUMI is issued Saudi passport A551159.

6/4/95 AL-BAYOUMI is issued an F-l student visa at AMCON Jeddah to attend

the ELS Language Center in San Diego, CA.

9/10/97 INS approves a certificate of eligibility for a F-l student. It is listed a

reinstatement to the United States International University in San Diego, CA. AL-
BAYOUMI had attended the West Coast University. He is going to major in Business
Administration which is expected to take two years. His funds $27,858 are coming from
ERCAN. Press reports say that AL-BAYOUMI was a Saudi agent and that he received
$3,500 a month for a (no show) construction job in Saudi Arabia while he was in the US.
The INS paper work is sparse.

(www. senate, gov/~schumer/SchumerWebsite/pressroom/press releases /PROP 1918 .pfd)

Also the Wall Street Journal, 8/11/03, Riyadh Paid Man Linked to Sept. 11 Hijackers by
Glenn R. Simpson
Raved Mohammed ABDULLAH

FOB: Saudi Arabia

COC: Yemen
DOB: 9/24/77
A78 037 712
There is a detailed timeline for ABDULLAH'S time in the US in the file
ABDULLAH was born and raised in Mecca. His mother is Saudi but his father is from
Yemen. Therefore under Saudi law he is a citizen of Yemen.

ABDULLAH was good friends with Bandar AL-HAZMI the suspected brother of
hijacker Nawaf AL-HAZMI. Bandar was in the United States as a student at ELS
Melbourne, Florida and invited ABDULLAH to come join him in the US.

ABDULLAH went to the ELS office in Jeddah and was accepted.

10/22/97 ABDULLAH receives a student visa from AMCON Jeddah to attend the
ELS Language Center at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Florida. He is
a Yemeni citizen but was born in Saudi Arabia.

11/15/97 ABDULLAH enters the US at Newark, NJ as an F-l and is admitted for

the duration of his status. Note: FBI report of interview with ABDULLAH states that
ADULLAH said he entered the US at Orlando, Florida and Hani Hanjour and Bandar
AL-HAZMI picked him up at the airport. Hanjour was also attending ELS Melbourne.

12/12/97 ELS Language Center certifies that ABDULLAH had successfully

completed the English course with attendance being from 11/17/97 to 12/12/97.

12/97 ABDULLAH joins Al-Hazmi and Hani Hanjour in Arizona where they
will students at an aviation school.
1/98 ABDULLAH, Hanjour and Al-Hazmi take flying lessons but drop out
after a few weeks because of the high cost of tuition. They transfer to Arizona Aviation
in Mesa but again only fly for a few weeks and then drop out due to cost.

4/98-9/98 ABDULLAH goes to Hamtramck, Michigan and attends the Henry Ford
Community College with INS approval.

9/98 ABDULLAH returns to Arizona, re-enrolls in Arizona Aviation and gets

his private pilot's license.

1/99 ABDULLAH marries USC Sevda Jazmine MITCHELL and attends Mesa
Community College without INS authorization.

6/8/99 MITCHELL files an I-130 petition for her husband ABDULLAH to

become a legal permanent resident if the US>

1999 ABDULLAH takes a job as a computer programmer for Friedman

Corporation, Scottsdale. ABDULLAH takes more flying lessons and joins the simulator
club to use the multi-engine flight simulator at Sawyer Aviation (Hanjour was also a
member at this time).

8/8/799 INS grants ABDULLAH authorization to work while a student

10/19/99 INS grants ABDULLAH advance parole to leave the United States and
return. Documents indicate that is visiting sick mother

7/9/00 INS grants ABDULLAH authorization to work while a student

9/6/00 ABDULLAH enters at Phoenix, AZ as parole.

8/7/01 INS grants ABDULLAH authorization to work while a student

9/15/01 ABDULLAH surrenders to Phoenix FBI (he had been under surveillance)
in response to his name appearing on a security list #13, ID #152. He was interviewed
and polygraphed by the FBI. He was also interviewed by Phoenix INS. He is in status,
has employment authorized and has an application for permanent residence.
ABDULLAH had taken flying lessons.

9/16/01 FBI completes a report on ABDULLAHs flight training and its

relationship to the other hijackers.

5/13/02 Rayed ABDULLAH, USC wife and two USC children departed the
United States and eventually arrived in Yemen.

7/15/02 INS denied ABDULLAH application for permanent residence based on

his departure without obtaining advanced parole to reenter the United States.
9/24/97 AL-BAYOUMI files an application for employment

Mohar Mohamed ABDULLAH aka

** immigration violation. Assisted 9/11 terrorists. Claimed to be
Somali to get political asylum based on fraudulent claim. Actually
entered US with B-2 visa in his Yemeni passport. High profile case. He
was convicted of false statements but only received six months sentence.
ICE/DRO attempting to remove him but could find no country that will
take him as of last info in file.

302 PROJECT see #1 Samir ABDOUN

FOB: Yemen
DOB: 5/8/78
A75 628 802

start

4/14/99 ABDULLAH is granted political asylum in the US based on his fear of

persecution in Somalia.

10/3/02 ABDULLAH served with "Notice of Intent to Terminate Asylum Status"

before an immigration judge:

"INS has gathered evidence that indicates fraud in you r application for asylum such that
you were not eligible for asylum at the time that it was granted: while you testified that
you were a national of a Somalia and suffered persecution in that country on account of
your membership in a particular social group, you are in fact a national of Yemen. While
you testified that you last entered the United States without inspection on December 7,
1998, through New York, NY, on an Italian passport, you entered the United States in
fact on December 10, 1998, from Canada, using a Yemeni passport and were admitted as
a temporary visitor. "

ABDULLAH is indicted in the Southern District of California for 18 USC Sec.

371 Conspiracy; 18 USC Section 1546 False Statement in an Immigration Application;
18 USC Sec. 1001 False Statements ; 18 USC Sec. 2 - Aiding and Abetting
7/16/02 ABDULLAH pleas guilty to:

Anwar ALMIRABI aka Al-Mirabi

We do not have INS file. All info from public sources.

POB: Saudi Arabia
DOB: 2/1/73

His father sent him to Afghanistan to fight when he was 16. Al-Mirabi
claims he was only a cook.

Around 1994 she started visiting the United States (B-l/B-2?)

He settled in the Arlington.Texas area where he became friendly with

Khader Hasan IBRAHIM who owned a tire store. The general manager of
the tire store was Walid el-Hage. El-Hage, a naturalized citizen, is serving a
life sentence for his involvement in the African embassy bombings.

1/00 Bassam KANJ is killed in Lebanon.

11/20/00 El-Mirabi marries Marlene J EARL, US citizen, in Tarrant

County, Texas. El-Mirabi is 28, EARL is 36. EARL is the widow of
Bassam KANJ who was a cab driver in Boston. They had five children.
KANJ aka Abu Aisha, belonged to the Lebanese al-Qaeda affiliate, Asbat al
Ansar. He fought in Afghanistan. He was killed in Lebanon in January,
2000 taking part in an al-Qaeda fight with Lebanese government forces.
Another Boston cab driver who lived with KANJ for a time is convicted in
Jordan of a millennium plot to kill Americans and Israelies.

7/01 El-Mirabi attempts to enter the US on a B-l/B-2 visa. He has a Saudi

Arabian passport that contains an indicator of terrorist membership. INS
determines that he is an intending immigrant and revokes his visa. He states
that he is entering to assist his wife in the birth of their first child (he and
Marlene). The INS permits him to enter on a humanitarian visa good till
August 16,2001.

Early August, the Mirabi's drive from Arlington, Texas to Boston so that
Marlene can be treated by a mid-wife.

8/29/01 Marlene has a son, Bassam, born in Boston.

9/13/01 El-Mirabi is arrested on immigration charges and then held as a

material witness and then returned to INS custody.

5/02 El-Mirabi may have been deported to Saudi Arabia.

U.S. Associates

Hamas activists

Other Canada Al Qaeda

Southwest Asia Al Qaeda

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