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Event: Interview of FBI Special Agen~.. __
Type of event: Interview

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Dates: November 18, 2003

S~~ial Access Issues: DSM

pre~at~d by: Dieter Snell, 1217103

Teani.Nu~ber: IA

Locatio •..:\F~I: San Diego Field Office

Participau~s -Non-Commission: FBI Supervisory Special Agent Rick Kelly

Participan ts \::.CO'\mission: Dieter Snell, .Raj De

Special'Age~d ~as been with the FBI for 20 years and was a

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French teacher before joining the Bureau. Most of her career has been spent in the New
York Field Division, working on the Cuban FCI squad. She transferred to San Diego in
June 1997 and worked on the white collar and boiler room fraud task force until April
1998, when she joined the terrorism squad. Prior to 9111, she handled lots of Preliminary
Investigations but no F~II Field Investigations, although she did support some FFIs.

At the end ofr.l~99~·9~th~ ""'Ip..::.;:.:.:,;~

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attempted to establish a ~ San ...piego in. the s~q\me~ifall of2001. He also
~st~blished a small mosque next 'to)~e IC~.D:,,'l. : i~,:im~,ware tver ~,q
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• Asked about the Omar~i~B~yoUmOhe handled,

involved a complaint about a "suspicious package" and turned out
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after 9111, and was unaware of the 'basis for the characterization of Aulaqi as "spiritual
advisor" of hijackers Khalid Al-Mihdhar and Nawaf Al-Hazmi. \

Aulaqi lived at the Al-Ribat Mosque. Just before 9/11, he reportedly acted
suspiciously by declining help with boxes he was transporting in a rental car driven onl
37 miles) and bX refusing to ~rovide any local .address to the rental agent.
doesn't kn01 JAulaqi's neigh~or in La Mesa. .....-----

Aulaqi had a criminal record for soliciting prostitution, in San Diego and
Washington, DC, and was picked u b the' SD police for hanging around a school. He
looked young to be an imam. 's uaware of any ties Aulaqi may have had to
Los Angeles, since mid-1999 Aulaqi had turned more moderate

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! me the case agent f04 lin May 2002 .

According to Al-Mihdhar and Al-Hazrni put up a sign ~t the [CSD advertising
for aAoommate. ~tated that he Dirt them at the m~sgu~, and J1fver mentioned
anything about meetmg t ~ ..at the Lemon 'Grove Mosque.] '" ~oesn't
re~embe~ ~yer sayinganything about the King Fahd I1osque-/

/ I lti~e aiso.inCI~q~~:~ lis.t of allguests who ev~r stayed ,aj ~ouse.

j~ kSDFO).preJlllred a"t\fIl,ehne of events In San DIego. ! /~'---'"
AlthOUg~" .... jwasu~~¥~e of an~'~ther property tha."!"'/--Imight own,
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she noted that people sOiR~time:s,~icj. stay.at the Lemon Grove ry1osq~.
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