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Arizona was al-Qaida hotbed By Billy House and Dennis Wagner, The Arizona Republic, July 23, 2004 WASHINGTON - Osama bin Laden's top agent for procuring weapons of mass destruction was among several key al-Qaida figures who attended the University of Arizona or lived in Tucson during the 1980s and early 1990s, according to the Sept. 11 commission's final report, released Thursday. The highly anticipated 567-page report also refers to more than a dozen other individuals who lived in Arizona from the 1990s through Sept. 11, 2001, and who were targeted in terrorism investigations after hijackers smashed jetliners into the Pentagon and World Trade Center. A number of those subjects are now known al-Qaida associates, and some trained at terror camps in Afghanistan. A report titled "Arizona: Long Term Nexus for Islamic Extremist," done jointly by the CIA and the FBI and dated May 15, 2002, is among the previously undisclosed documents the commission says it relied upon for observations about the al-Qaida activities in Arizona. Congressional findings and public testimony previously have disclosed that Hani Hanjour, a Saudi who piloted a hijacked airliner into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, trained at Arizona flight schools starting as early as 1996. He lived mostly in the East Valley, including at one point in 2001 with fellow hijacker Nawaf al-Hazmi... Among the operatives mentioned as having lived in Tucson during the 1980s or 1990s: - Mubarak al-Duri, reportedly bin Laden's principal procurement agent for weapons of mass destruction. - Mohammed Bayazid, an al-Qaida arms procurer and trainer who reportedly tried to obtain material for nuclear weapons 10 years ago in Sudan. - Wadih el Hage, an operative convicted in the August 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in East Africa... When they got to Arizona, they were not alone... The commission report also addresses the so-called "Phoenix Memo," a July 10, 2001, e-mail warning FBI headquarters about numerous Middle Eastern men training at Arizona flight schools... "They kept to themselves in their own little group," As'ad said. "They were not involved in anything going on in the general (Muslim) community." |
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