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At the top-of-the-hour newsbreak it was reported a "material witness" being held since Sept related to the 9/11 attacks has gone missing. His lawyer has reported he has no information on the whereabouts of his client. The client has not been seen since last Wednesday morning when he appeared in NY to give testimony. He was told then, apparently, that he faced charges back in San Diego for falsifying information on his application for asylum. The suspect is a student at San Diego State University.

Bomb Scare At Tucson Grocery Store Jenny Rose KGUN9 News An explosive situation tied up the intersection of Prince and Campbell for hours after someone found a bomb at a grocery story. Jenny Rose has the latest. http://www.kgun9.com/NewsArticle/tabid/111...38/Default.aspx

Man with links to 9/11 pilot deported 10 June 2006 A man the Government says had a direct link with a September 11 terrorist has been deported from New Zealand because he was a threat to national security. Immigration Minister David Cunliffe confirmed today Yemeni national, Rayed Mohammed Abdullah Ali, was deported because his continued presence in New Zealand posed a threat. "He was directly associated with persons responsible for the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001," Mr Cunliffe said in a statement. He was deported under the rarely used Section 72 of the Immigration Act...

Fifteen minutes after KLM Flight 685 took off from Amsterdam for Mexico City on April 8, Mexican authorities forwarded the names of all the passengers to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The reason: the flight was scheduled to pass through U.S. airspace. by the time the Boeing 747 had finished its three-hour crossing of the Atlantic, Homeland Security screeners were on high alert. The names of two Saudi passengers aboard the KLM flight had begun producing "hits" on the screening center's lists of 70,000 suspect foreigners. The two Saudis, the database reported, were brothers and pilots who had attended...

WASHINGTON - Counterterror officials suspect that an Arab student linked to one of the Sept. 11 hijackers may have cased the presidential ranch in Crawford, Tex. - six months before the 9/11 attacks. Muhammad Al-Gurashi and three other Arab men suspected of close ties to hijacker Hani Hanjour rented a car in Phoenix and drove to Freeport, Tex., in March 2001, intelligence and law enforcement sources say. They are believed to have stopped near President Bush's ranch to assess security for a possible terrorist attack, the sources told the Daily News. Al-Gurashi, a 28-year-old Saudi who attended Arizona State University,...

INDIANAPOLIS -- A Saudi Arabian man whose alleged actions and possessions drew suspicion from authorities after an Indianapolis traffic collision is no longer being investigated by the FBI, RTV6's Jack Rinehart reported Friday. Authorities questioned Ayman Al-Salmi after a sheriff's deputy reported finding airplane flight instructions in a car the Saudi was driving Feb. 19. Also found in the vehicle was a hand-drawn map to a place identified as a federal building in Indianapolis, according to police. The FBI said Friday it has no concern over Al-Salmi, a student at the Vincennes University Aviation Technology Center in Indianapolis. University administrators...

Federal authorities are checking on some documents found in an aviation engineering student's car after he was involved in an accident last week. According to a police report, a Marion County sheriff's deputy found handwritten notes about airplanes and flying instructions, a map giving directions to a federal building Downtown and some advice about how not to set off metal detectors. Ayman Al-Salmi, 21, 5400 block of Norfolk Way, was cited with leaving the scene of an accident. According to the deputy's report, Al-Salmi 's car struck another northbound car about 3:30 p.m. last Wednesday at Executive Drive and West...

Student's Arrest Arouses Terror Concerns Flight Manuals Allegedly Found In Hit-And-Run Suspect's Car POSTED: 8:09 a.m. EST February 26, 2003 UPDATED: 11:27 a.m. EST February 26, 2003 INDIANAPOLIS -- A seemingly routine traffic accident Tuesday has triggered investigations by the Marion County Sheriff's Department and the FBI. Police said Ayman Al-Salmi, 21, ran a stop sign at Raymond Street and Executive Drive -- less than a mile from Indianapolis International Airport -- struck a vehicle, and fled the scene on the wrong side of the road. A witness, Dean Fulbright, said he saw the accident, chased Al-Salmi, and returned him...

h5>February 16, 2002 Man Tied to Hijacker Is Convicted of Lying By REUTERS HOENIX, Feb. 15 — A Saudi Arabian who lives in Arizona has been convicted in federal court of lying to the F.B.I. about his link to a hijacker who flew an airliner into the Pentagon on Sept. 11. The Saudi, Faisal al-Salmi, 34, was found guilty on Thursday of one count of making false statements in denying any knowledge of the hijacker, Hani Hanjour. The jury in Federal District Court here took about 90 minutes to reach the verdict after a two-day trial. Mr. Salmi faces ...