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...Moussaoui was arrested Aug. 17 after an instructor at Pan Am International Flight Academy's facility in Eagan, Minn., became suspicious of his request for use of the flight simulator. Moussaoui reportedly showed keen interest in mid-air navigation--and utter indifference to the landing sequence. His instructor then alerted the FBI, and Moussaoui was arrested on immigration charges. It turned out that he has long been suspected in his native France of involvement in terrorist organizations, and the French had been seeking his extradition before Sept...
According to French press reports of interviews with his mother, Moussaoui led a secular childhood near the southern city of Narbonne. In 1990, however, the arrival of a female cousin--a former student of the Islamic Brotherhood in Rabat--marked the change in his life that would ultimately lead him to his U.S. jail cell. Vexed at the wild ways of her son and unhappy about her niece's fundamentalist opinions, Moussaoui's mother invited the pair to leave--which they did, eventually settling down in Montpellier. There, the young woman began introducing her cousin to acquaintances in the Islamic...
...Moussaoui later moved to Britain, where the focus of his life became the radical mosques of London's Baker Street and the fiery discourses of imams who even today are openly urging the destruction of infidel societies like the U.S. In 1995 Moussaoui made his first visit to Afghan training camps run by bin Laden, visits that continued through 1996. And Moussaoui began recruiting other young Muslims to fight for Islam in Chechnya and Kosovo. Moussaoui finally set down in the U.S. in February using an entry visa obtained in Pakistan...
That month he enrolled in Airman Flight School in Norman, Okla. He was a weak student, according to Dale Davis, director of operations. The problem could have been a language barrier. Moussaoui spoke fair English, Davis said, but some of the school's instructors had problems communicating with him. He left the school after a heart-to-heart with Davis about his lack of progress. Investigators have noted that both Atta and Al-Shehhi visited Airman, though they didn't enroll...
Arrested in August on immigration charges while trying to get jet-simulator training in Minneapolis, Zacarias Moussaoui should have been a warning to feds. A suspected terrorist in his native France, he traveled to Afghanistan in the mid-'90s. The feds wonder if he was supposed to be on Flight 93. He has been flown to New York City for questioning. Khalid Al-Draibi was detained not far from Dulles airport the night of the attacks. He reportedly tried to rush training at flight schools in Alabama and Kansas...