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John Lehman

Timothy J. Roemer
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CHAIR

Lee H. Hamilton
VICE CHAIR June 18, 2003
Richard Ben-Veniste
Mr. Mark Krikorian
Max Cleland Executive Director
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Frederick F. Fielding
1522 K Street, NW, Suite 820
Jamie S. Oorelick Washington, DC 20005-1202
Slade Gorton
Dear Mr. Krikorian:
John F. Lehman
Thank you for your letter to the National Commission on Terrorist
Timothy J. Roemer
Attacks Upon the United States. We greatly appreciate your interest and
James R. Thompson willingness to provide information to the Commission. Your materials
have been forwarded to the Commission staff members responsible for
Philip D. Zelikow
the study of border security and foreign visitors for review during the
DIRECTOR course of their investigative work.

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Richard Ben-Veniste Ronald L. Motley, Esq.

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Jamie S. Gorelick Dear Mr. Motley,

Slade Gorton
I am writing in response to your letter to Chairman Kean, in which you stated
John F. Lehman your offer to provide information and materials in support of the
Commission's work. We welcome relevant information from any source, and
Timothy J. Roemer
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James R. Thompson Commission's inquiry. Any materials may be provided to my attention at the
following address:
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301 7th Street, SW
Room 5125
Washington, DC 20407

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forward to receiving your materials. Feel free to contact me if you want to
discuss this matter further.

Sincerely,

aniel Marcus
General Counsel

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Washington, DC 20407
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - - Attorney General John Ashcroft unveiled plans today to issue new
regulations that will expedite the review of cases before the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). The
administrative rule change will eliminate the backlog of more than 56,000 immigration cases pending
before the BIA, remove unwarranted delays, and utilize the resources of the BIA more efficiently.

"A mission of the Department of Justice is enforcing our immigration laws fairly, deliberately, and
without delay. Today's announced reorganization of the Board of Immigration Appeals will meet these
objectives while protecting due process," said Ashcroft. "Justice delayed is justice denied. When it takes
several years to render a decision, justice is not only denied, it is also derailed."

Under the rule change all immigration appeals will be sent to a screening panel of individual board
members who may review the cases and render decisions in relatively simple matters. If a case presents
an issue that requires the resources and attention of a three-member panel, the board member will send it
on to the larger panel.

The proposed rules provide specific guidance regarding the cases that will be appropriate for three-
member review including:

Settling inconsistencies between the rulings of different Immigration Judges.

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Correcting decisions that are not plainly in conformity with the law; and,
Correcting a factual determination that is clearly erroneous.

The proposed rule eliminates the BIA's de novo review of factual issues. The BIA will accept the
factual findings of the immigration judges, disturbing them only if they are "clearly erroneous."
Accordingly, the proposed rule also prohibits the introduction and consideration of new evidence in
proceedings before the BIA.

The proposed administrative rule change also establishes stricter guidelines for filing and deciding
appeals. An immigration judge on the screening panel will have 90 days in which to decide a case or
refer the matter to a three-member panel. The BIA three-member panel will have 180 days to review and

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Filed at 5:33 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) ~ The Justice Department had detained fewer than 50 people as material
witnesses without charging them in the war in terror as of January and had gained 47 court-ordered
delays in notifying people of search warrants, according to documents released Tuesday.

In addition, "fewer than 10" FBI offices have conducted investigations involving visits to Islamic
mosques, the Justice Department said. The department also said the FBI does not keep files on
information collected at public places or events unless it relates directly to a criminal or terrorist probe.

The new details are part of a 60-page agency response to the House Judiciary Committee's request for
information about the prosecution of the war on terror and use of the USA Patriot Act since the Sept.
11, 2001, attacks.

The documents did not include specifics about investigations into library patrons' computer use or book
records. But Viet Dinh, head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Policy, told the Judiciary
constitution subcommittee Tuesday that about 50 libraries have been contacted with court permission as
part of post-Sept. 11 national security investigations.

"Libraries and bookstores should not be allowed to become safe havens for terrorists," Dinh said.

Committee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., commended the "timing and thoroughness" of the
answers, but the panel's top Democrat, Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, said the Justice Department
could ' 'have been more forthcoming in terms of the manner in which and how freely the new powers
have been used."

The American Civil Liberties Union, which has jousted repeatedly with the Justice Department over the
new powers, said the responses still do not provide enough details about the library investigations,
whether the FBI is scrutinizing mosque membership lists and other civil liberties issues.

"These are basic, fundamental questions that can and should be answered in an open, democratic
society like ours," said Timothy Edgar, ACLU legislative counsel.

The number of material witnesses detained around the country without charges has been a closely
guarded secret, with officials repeatedly insisting that the law prevented the names and circumstances
from being made public.

But in the documents released Tuesday, Justice officials said that as of January, the number of people
detained as material witnesses was fewer than 50, with 90 percent of those detained for 90 days or less

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Dear Susan i
Attached is the list of the global salafi terrorists who came to the US
and Canada. It is not complete^, but is a good start. Included are two
names of people who failed to get a visa.
By the way, no one else from teh 9-11 Commission has contacted me. I
still eagerly awaiting for theiir call or e-mail.
Thanks. i
Marc i
PS: Call with any question. When I'll have more time, I'll sent you a
more complete list. i

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List of Terrorists, who came to the U.S. or Canada

• Ayman al Zawahiri (Abdel Muiz, Dr. Nur, he's got many aliases, they're on the FBI web site): he's Osama bin Laden's
#2 guy. He came to California in 1995 under some alias, invited by Ali Mustafa & Khalid al Dahab

• Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, came to the U.S. in early 90's and implicated in WTC bombing of '93

• Mahmud Abouhamima, came to US in fall of '85 and was involved in WTC bombing of '93

• Ali Abdel Suud Mohammed Mustafa (Ali Mohammed), came to US in '85 despite being put on a watch list by CIA. He
joined US military and traveled under the name of Ali Mohammed. Became a U.S. citizen. Was involved in '98
Embassy bombings.

• Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (many aliases). Studied in the U.S. in the mid 1980's and was the mastermind of the 9/11
plot. I don't know whether he came to U.S. in the 90's under an alias.

• Wadih el Hage (Abu Abdullah al Lubnani) came to U.S. in early '80's and studied in Louisiana. Became a U.S.
citizen. Was involved in '98 Embassy bombing

• Khalid al Sayyid Ali abu al Dahab (Sheikh Adam): friend of Ali Mustafa. Came to California from Egypt in 1986. Lived

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in Santa Clara, Calif where he married three times and became a US citizen. Convicted in Egypt in 98 of trying to
break in Cairo prison using gliders and freeing Egyptian Islamic Jihad members. Hosted al Zawahiri in California in
95.

• Ahmed Said Khadr (al Kanadi). Came to Canada in 75 and became a Canadian citizen. One of the earliest members
of al Qaida. Involved in Egyptian Embassy bombing in Islamabad in 1995. Has two sons, who joined the jihad and
are in Guantanamo Bay.

• Abdul Basit Mohammed Abdul Karim (Ramzi Yousef). Came to the U.S. in 9/92 and was involved in '93 WTC
bombing

• Ahmad Mohammad Ajaj. Came to the U.S. in 9/92 with Ramzi Yousef above and was stopped at JFK.

• Abdul Hakim Murad. Came to the U.S. in late 1980's for flight school. A friend of Ramzi Yousef. He was arrested in
the Philippines in 1995 for his involvement in the Bojinka Plot

• Fateh Kamel. Came to Montreal in 87 and became a Canadian Citizen. Was the main contact for al Qaida in the
Western World in the early 90's. Was involved with Ressam (Millennial Plot) and in Jordanian Millennial Plot. He was
arrested in Jordan and extradited to France.

• Karim Said Atmani. Came to Canada in 12/95 as a stowaway in Halifax. Became part of the Montreal network. He
went back and forth and was arrested in Niagara Falls on weapons charges and credit card fraud in 10/98

• Abdellah Ouzghar. Came to Canada in 1990 and became a Canadian Citizen. Was part of the Montreal al Qaida
network. Arrested in Canada in 10/01

• Mohammadou Quid Slahi. Came to Canada in the fall 1999 and stayed in Montreal, where he was part of the al
Qaida cell. He left after Ressam was arrested. He convinced al Jarrah & al Shehhi to train in Afghanistan rather than
go to Chechnya and they eventually became 9/11 pilots. He's in Guantanamo Bay now

• Raed Hijazi (Abu Ahmed al Amriki) He was born in California and is a US citizen of Jordanian parents. He became a
Salafi in Cal State at Sacramento in the late 1980's. He went back and forth between the U.S. and the Middle East.
He was arrested in Jordan for the Millennial Plot and sentenced to death

• Ahmed Ressam (Benni Noris): The Millennial bomber. Came to Montreal in 2/94 and became part of the Montreal
network. He trained in Afghanistan and returned in 2/99 via Los Angeles back to Montreal. Was arrested in Port
Angeles in 12/99

• Mohammad bin Nasser Belfas: He was part of the Hamburg 9/11 network. Originally Indonesian, he became a
German citizen in 11/00 and came to the U.S. (Virginia) where he illegally obtained a Driver's License

• Mohammed al Amir Awad el Sayed Atta: No need to introduce him. In Germany, he went by the name Mohammed al
Amir rather than Mohammed Atta. Reported his passport lost and got a new one in early 2000 right after returning
from Afghanistan. He got his new passport and visa in Germany. Had multiple entry visa and went back and forth
between the US and Europe

• Ramzi Muhammad Abdullah bin al Shibh: was part of the Hamburg network. Tried to get a visa to the U.S. three
times from Germany (in 2000) and once from Sanaa in Yemen (again 2000) but failed.

• Ziad Samir Jarrah: was part of the Hamburg network. Reported his passport lost, got a new one and a visa for the
US after his training in Afghanistan in early 2000. Again, multiple entries as he went back and forth.

• Marwan al Shehhi: part of the Hamburg network. Reported his passport lost and got a visa from Germany.

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• Zakarya Essabar: part of the Hamburg network. Was born in Morocco. Reported his passport lost but could not get a
visa to the U.S. from Germany and gave up

• Hani Hanjour: 9/11 pilot from Saudi Arabia. First came to the U.S. in '91. Came here a few times in the 1990's.

• Nawaf al Hazmi: 9/11 kamikaze from Saudi Arabia. Traveled back and forth and was at the Kuala Lumpur meeting
planning 9/11 in 1/00. Lived in California

• Khalid al Midhar (Mihdhar): 9/11 kamikaze from Saudi Arabia. Traveled back and forth and was the Kuala Lumpur
meeting with Nawaf al Hazmi. Flew back together to LA on 1/15/00

• Salem al Hazmi: 9/11 kamikaze from Saudi Arabia. Nawafs brother.

• Wail al Shehri: 9/11 kamikaze from Saudi Arabia. Waleed's brother.

• Waleed al Shehri: 9/11 kamikaze from Saudi Arabia. Wail's brother.

• Saeed al Ghamdi: 9/11 kamikaze from Saudi Arabia

• Ahmed al Nami: 9/11 kamikaze from Saudi Arabia

• Majed Mishan al Harbi (Majed, Moqed): 9/11 kamikaze from Saudi Arabia

• Satam al Suqami: 9/11 kamikaze from UAE

• Hamza al Ghamdi: 9/11 kamikaze from Saudi Arabia

• Ahmed Ibrahim al Ghamdi: 9/11 kamikaze from Saudi Arabia

• Ahmed al Haznawi (al Ghamdi): 9/11 kamikaze from Saudi Arabia

• Abdul Aziz al Omari: 9/11 kamikaze from Saudi Arabia

• Fayez Ahmed al Shehri: 9/11 kamikaze from Saudi Arabia

• Muhannad al Shehri (Mohand al Shehri): 9/11 kamikaze from Saudi Arabia

• Habib Zacarias Moussaoui: French Moroccan. Arrested before 9/11 & linked to bin al Shibh

• Richard Colvin Reid: the shoe bomber, arrested on 12/22/01

• Zuher Hilal Mohammed al Tbaiti: Saudi who lived in New York for six months in 1999. He was part of the Moroccan
al Qaida network which tried to blow up US Navy ships in the straits of Gibraltar. Arrested in Morocco

• Jose Padilla: US citizen from Puerto Rico. Dirty Bomber, arrested in Chicago

• Adnan Gulshair Mohammed el Shukri-Jumah (Jafar al Tayer): Saudi, who came to Florida to live with his father in
1995. Friend of Padilla. Trained as a pilot and is the subject of an intensive manhunt

• Nizar ben Muhammad Nasr Nawar: Tunisian suicide bomber in Djerba, Tunisia. He spent time in Montreal in 2000
and 2001

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• Yazid Sufaat: Malaysian, who was the host of the Kuala Lumpur planning meeting for 9/11. He studied in the U.S. in
the 1980's (Cal State at Sacramento)

• Kamal Derwish: Born in Buffalo, NY of Saudi parent. Spent his youth in Saudi and Yemen and returned to Buffalo in
the 1990's where he recruited the six fellows from Lackawanna. He was killed in 11/3/02 in Yemen from a Predator
strike while riding in al Qaida car.

• Mohammad Mansur Jabarah: Kuwaiti, who immigrated to St Catherines, Canada in 1994. Became involved in
Khaled Sheikh Mohammed and the Singapore Plot

• Abdul Rahma Mansur Jabarah: Kuwaiti, who immigrated to St Catherines, Canada in 1994. Mohammad's (above)
older brother. One of the leaders of the Riyadh bombings last month

• Abdallah Khadr: son of Ahmad Khadr and born in Canada. Has traveled back and forth between Canada and
Afghanistan/Pakistan. At large

• Abdel Rahman Khadr: son of Ahmad Khadr and brother of Abdallah. Although he was born in Bahrain, I believe he's
a Canadian Citizen. Traveled back and forth between Canada and Afghanistan/Pakistan. Captured and at
Quantanamo Bay at present

• Omar Khadr: son of Ahmad Khadr, and brother of Abdallah and Abdel Rahma. He was born in Canada. Traveled
back and forth between Canada and Afghanistan/Pakistan. Captured and youngest prisoner at Quantanamo Bay
(born on 9/19/86)

• Abdel-llah Elmardoudi: just convicted in Detroit. From his history seems that he might have been the only one who
probably was al Qaida of the four.

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also received a report that a firearm was used ... I hope this commission
investigates and credibly determines whether the public was deceived."

3) In Moroccan Slum, Zealotry Took Root; Bombers Linked to Al Qaeda Worked Under Radar of
Authorities

By Peter Finn
Washington Post

CASABLANCA, Morocco - By 4:30 p.m. on May 16, five hours before they were scheduled to die in
synchronized bombings, the 14 men had assembled in a cinderblock shack with a corrugated tin roof held down
by rocks. Most of the volunteers, between the ages of 21 and 32, already knew each other, having grown up
together in the surrounding garbage-strewn slum of lean-tos linked by dirt alleyways.

At first they prayed, Moroccan government investigators said, exercising the fierce faith that most had only
recently found. And then Mohamed Omari, 24, a parking lot attendant, laid out the plan in slow detail. Five
teams, Omari said, would disperse to five targets in the city and detonate explosives carried in backpacks at
exactly 9:30 p.m. Each man was handed a new Casio watch to ensure simultaneous blasts.

The men who gathered in the slum known as Carriere Thomas that afternoon knew that this was to be the day
of their deaths. But none, until then, had known the dimensions of the attack, according to senior Moroccan
officials who have interrogated two survivors from the group, including Omari, as well as other accomplices.

As dusk fell, they prayed again. Then, between 8 and 8:30 p.m., the teams left one by one to make the trip
downtown in the little red taxis found almost everywhere in this port city. They headed for a lively Spanish
k restaurant, a Jewish-owned Italian restaurant, a Jewish social club and the Jewish cemetery. Omari's group,
destined for the Farah Hotel, was the last to leave.

The targets, Moroccan officials said, were either connected to Jews or were so-called places of "debauchery."

Then the bombs went off, one after the other. The attackers killed 32 people at the five locations. Eleven
bombers also died. Three of the conspirators, including Omari, apparently changed their minds at the last
minute.

The Casablanca attacks, Moroccan officials said, were the work of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network,
months in the making and ordered by Abu Musab Zarqawi. a Jordanian who obtained between $50,000 and
$70,000 from the organization's leadership to Tinance tne strikes!

Zarqawi is the headgf al Tawhid, a group that intelligence analysts previously thought was only allied with al
QaeaarDul wliiiffmcreasingly appears to them to be indistinguishable from bin Laden's organization. U.S.
intelligence officials say that Zarqawi was taking refuge in Iraq before the recent war there, but is now probably
in Iran.

"Zarqawi gave the order to make attacks and found the finances," said a senior Moroccan official. "He is the one
who set up the whole thing."

The nearly simultaneous detonation of the bombs immediately pointed to al Qaeda, for which coordinated
strikes are a signature tactic. And the bombmaking recipe, except for a simple detonation device that the men
used, was one that followed al Qaeda manuals found in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban, according to
Moroccan officials. Investigators here believe a bombmaker was sent to Morocco by al Qaeda to instruct the
recruits.
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The Casablanca plot illustrated al Qaeda's lethal adaptability in the face of intense security measures directed
against it around the world.

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April 1, 2003

The Honorable John D. Ashcroft

Attorney General of the United States
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20530

Dear Attorney General Ashcroft:

As the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, it is our responsibility
to conduct oversight of the Department of Justice's efforts to combat terrorism, which includes
implementation of the USA PATRIOT Act ("Act") signed into law by President Bush on October 26,
2001. In response to our letter of June 13, 2002, you provided us with information regarding the use of
these new tools, which helped us to understand the complexity and extensive scope of the effort to
implement the law.

The Department of Justice has also been faced with significant new challenges to which it has responded
using existing authorities as well as those contained in the Act. This letter seeks information regarding
the use of preexisting authorities and the new authorities conferred by the Act.

Unless otherwise indicated, please provide your responses to the Committee current through March 31,
2003. In addition, if any answer requires the disclosure of classified material, please provide those
answers under separate cover to the Committee or to the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence ("HPSCI") in accordance with appropriate security procedures. We will review those
responses under appropriate procedures that HPSCI and this Committee establish pursuant to the rules
of the House.

To the extent that a question relates to the authority or operations of the Immigration and Naturalization
Service, all of which have been transferred to the Department of Homeland Security ("DHS"), you may
either answer the question or refer the questions to the appropriate official at DHS. If you refer the
question to DHS, please notify us of the identity of the official to whom the question has been referred.

Please respond to the following questions:

USA PATRIOT Act

1. Section 215 of the Act amended 50 U.S.C. § 1861 to allow the FBI Director or his designee (who
must hold the rank of Assistant Special Agent in Charge or higher) to apply for an order from the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for "the production of tangible things (including books,
records, papers, documents, and other items) for an investigation to protect against international
terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities . ..." Such an investigation may only be
conducted under guidelines approved by the Attorney General under Executive Order 12333 (or
a successor order). 50 U.S.C. § 1861(a)(2)(A).

A. What guidelines has the Attorney General approved under Executive Order 12333 or a

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 The Bonds of Terror:

The Emergence of the Global Salafi Jihad

By

Marc Sageman