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To: Ottawa From: San Diego Re: 265A-NY-280350 , 04/11/2002 On September 13, 200l, FBI agents from the.San Diego Field Office interviewed flight instructors at the Sorbi Flight Club which is located at the Montgomery Airfield, San Diego, California. According to the flight instructors, in May of 2ooo, Al-Hazmi and Al-Mihdhar began taking flying lessons with the Sorbi Flight Club. Al-Hazmi and Al-Mihdha expressed a strong interest in.flying Boeing and jet aircraft. Al-Hazmi smaller single engine aircraft first. Al-Hazmi and Al-Mihdhar took b6 approximately six flying lessons at the Sorbi Flight Club. Al-Hazmi and b7C Al-Mihdhar were mainly preoccupied with.learning to control the aircraft little effort to improve those flying skills. On September 15, 200l, Special Agents of the FBI made contact a person named. During an initial interview,. stated that he is a citizen of Yemen, was raised in Saudi Arabia, and entered the United States in 1998 on a student visa. remained silent when asked if he knew Al-Hazmi and Al-Mihdar. He denied knowledge of the terrorist events of September ll, 2ool..During subsequent interyiews with on September 15 and 16, 2001, admitted knowing A] Hazmi and Al-Mihdhar and advised that he had met them'at a local Mosque claimed that he regularly gave them English lessons and attempted to help them adjust to life in the United States. In July of 200o, he moved into an apartment located California recalled that Al-Hazmi and Al-Mihdhar were still listed on . the lease at that time but were preparing to move out. said that in December 2ooo he moved into a residence located at [after Al-Hazmi and Al-mihdhar moved out of the residence. On September 15, 2001, granted Special Agents of the FBI consent to search his room and his home computer at the The San Diego Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory ("RcFL") subsequently performed a forensic analysis of computer. The RcFL uncovered several web pages on the computer's hard drive which expressed strong anti-American sentiments. These web pages contained headlines such as "America's Campaign to Destrc Islam," "u.s. & Britian Kill Muslim Children In Genocide Attempt," and "? Message From Bin Laadin[sic]: Declaration of War." There were also sever. web pages in support of the Muslims and their war against the Russians ir Chechnya. Digital records from. computer revealed the email address MOHDAR78@HOTMAIL.COM. Investigation at Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District, 880o Grossmont College Drive, El Cajon, California by the FBI revealed that the email address, MOHDAR78@HOTMAIL.COM, was provided by Mohdar Abdullah as a point of contact.. 2