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...trained at an al-Qaeda camp in Khaldan, Afghanistan. He spent three years at the camp, becoming close to both al-Mughira al Gaza'iri, the camp's leader, and senior bin Laden associate Abu Zubaydah. In 1995, at Abu Zubaydah's suggestion, al-Faruq procured a fake passport and traveled with al-Mughira to the Philippines. There he joined Camp Abubakar, a terrorist-training facility run by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a Philippine-based rebel group fighting for independence from Manila. According to a regional intelligence report, al-Faruq, while in the Philippines, unsuccessfully tried to enter flight...
Around that time, al-Faruq began running into trouble. He had been living near Dwikarna in Makassar, in South Sulawesi province, but because of his poor language ability, he never managed to acquire an Indonesian passport. In mid-2001, immigration authorities detained al-Faruq temporarily and prepared to deport him. Al-Faruq skipped town, heading to Cijeruk with Mira and their baby daughter. After Sept. 11 he stayed in contact with Abu Zubaydah during the U.S. military campaign against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. Abu Zubaydah told al-Faruq that he should plan to return soon to Kuwait...
...Gaili said a Sudanese passport has always meant he can get only short-term visas into the U.S—but it used to take less than a week to obtain...
...tougher bank regulation was ushered in. First came due-diligence rules that compelled banks to identify all their clients and establish the beneficial owners of assets. For over two decades now, banks have been obliged to keep a copy of some official identification of a client, like a passport?a measure that U.S. banks are only now starting to adopt as part of the post-Sept. 11 fight against terrorism...
...worldwide BE ON THE LOOKOUT bulletin, or BOLO, has led to the detention of a 21-year-old Saudi man suspected of links to the Sept. 11 hijackers. The issued the BOLO alert for Saud A.S. al-Rasheed when his passport photo appeared on a CD-ROM with pictures of some of the 19 hijackers. The disc, turned over in May by a foreign government the FBI would not disclose, had only recently been analyzed because of the volume of material the agency has collected since the war on terrorism began, the bureau said. The bulletin included al-Rasheed...