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...Sept. 11 and saw the Twin Towers burning on TV, she immediately thought of Moussaoui. For three weeks her office had been trying--and failing--to get FBI headquarters to allow a request for a search warrant of his computer. Agents had had him arrested for overstaying his visa while they looked into his past. As Rowley wrote in her memo, French officials and other intelligence sources established that Moussaoui was affiliated with radical fundamentalist Islamic groups and activities connected to Osama bin Laden. Minneapolis agents pushed headquarters for approval to dig deeper, fearing--before Sept. 11--that he might...
...attacks. An FBI agent in Phoenix, Ariz., who was suspicious of Arab flight-school students was not aware that he had a colleague in Minneapolis, Minn., with the same concerns. Immigration officials didn't know that a Saudi suspected by the CIA of terrorist ties had applied for a visa. "If you look at the lessons learned from Sept. 11," says Ed Sketch, director of Ford's Learning Network, which uses Autonomy software to categorize and distribute information to all its salaried employees, "this technology is slap-bang in the middle because it sorts the relevant from the irrelevant...
Still, Bassnan was charged with visa fraud and deported on Nov. 17, and the FBI hasn't closed the investigation into his and Bayoumi's finances. The princess has her accountant scrutinizing all the checks from the account in question; no doubt she and her husband will think twice the next time someone begs their generosity. --By John Cloud. Reported by Massimo Calabresi, Elaine Shannon and Adam Zagorin/Washington
...said tightened visa requirements have already slightly impacted executive enrollment...
...late September 2001, he was charged in the U.S. with visa fraud and arrested by Scotland Yard at the request of the FBI. He was held for some months on that immigration charge while both the bureau and Scotland Yard investigated him for possible connections to al-Qaeda. None were found, despite, sources say, intensive reviews of his phone calls, other communications, bank accounts and associates...