Release the records of the Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar:

1-8-03 | William Schlegel

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Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar were not like the other hijackers. While it is true that the two Saudis were of a similar age and the same nationality as most of the other 9/11 conspirators, Alhazmi was 25 and Almihdhar was 26, they had much more worldly and militant backgrounds than the others, despite their young ages. In the mid-1990s both were in the Bosnia conflict, In the course of 1995 Al-Hamzi and Al-Mihdhar travelled to Bosnia to joint other Muslims in the war against the Serbs and then fought in Chechnya at various times between 1996 and 1998. A common acquaintance of members of Atta's circle was German-Syrian Muhammad Heydar Zammar, a known al-Qa'ida associate in Hamburg who was detained after 11 September. Zammar has been active in Islamic extremist circles since the 1980s and first trained and fought in Afghanistan in 1991. He trained and fought in Bosnia in and made many return trips to Afghanistan.

So I ask this, did we train Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar? And if, so what was our relationship with them? Many ask, well Iraq be better off, because of what we did? Well, what about or actions in Bosnia/Kosovo? Are we better off?

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A California college student has been accused of lying to a federal grand jury about his association with several of the men thought to be responsible for the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon.According to an indictment against Osama Awadallah, a 21-year-old student at Grossmont College in El Cajon, Calif., he gave false testimony about his knowledge of Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, whom authorities say were two of the five hijackers aboard the American Airlines flight that crashed into the nation's military headquarters. Court documents say Awadallah had been studying English as a Second Language at Grossmont since the fall of 2000. The indictment, handed up in the Southern District of New York, also says the word "Osama" and a phone number that belonged to Awadallah was written on a slip of paper found inside a car registered to al-Hazmi that was abandoned at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C. A search of a car belonging to Awadallah turned up several videotapes titled "Martyrs of Bosnia, " "Bosnia 1993" and "The Koran v. the Bible, Which is God's Word?"

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Bosnian Al-Qa'idah members plan attacks on NATO - terrorism expert 17 October 2003 BBC Monitoring European Text of interview conducted by Milorad Boskovic, published by Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA New York, 17 October:

A group of Islamists, 10 mujahidin trained in Afghanistan, have entered Bosnia-Hercegovina with the help of Sandzak connections and are currently in Al-Qa'idah camps near Zenica [central Bosnia] and Tuzla [northeastern Bosnia], a Serb terrorism expert,Darko Trifunovic, has told SRNA. He added that a plan to blow up a tunnel through which acolumn of American vehicles was meant to pass was prevented in the last moment.Trifunovic is currently in Washington, where he is talking with American anti-terrorism experts and prominent members of the Congress about the spreading and aims of Islamic fundamentalism in the Balkans and especially in Bosnia-Hercegovina where - as Trifunovic said- they operate "with the blessing of top Muslim officials". He said that a group of about 300 young Kosovo Albanians, who had been attacked by the concept of a Greater Muslim state, was trained in northern Albania and then transferred to Kosovo with their trainers, mujahidin fighters from Middle Eastern and North African countries. According to intelligence reports, a third of the group went to the border with Macedonia tasked with destabilizing that country. Another third went towards Serbia, where some have already been caught, while some headed for Sandzak (Raska [old Serbian name for the region]) and on the way there killed Serb children in Gorazdevac [Kosovo].Trifunovic said that the third group ended up in Bosnia-Hercegovina, where it is being trained to launch attacks on tunnels and communication lines used by Sfor [NATO-led Stabilization Force] and Americans, as well as Soko Airport near Tuzla. "We have information that the group was welcomed by well-known terrorist Abu-Hamza in Bocinja, where the largest camp of Islamic extremists is located," Trifunovic said and warned that the situation was very dangerous. He stressed that Serb and foreign terrorism experts were especially concerned about the presence of the most extreme Islamists in Bosnia-Hercegovina. He revealed that "a special Wahhabi unit has been set up in Brcko District". Trifunovic had brought with him to the USA a list with the names of the members of this unit with the intention of handing it over to members of the Congress. Trifunovic warned that Vakufska and Ilamska banks were operating in Bosnia-Hercegovina although they were suspected of financing Muslim fundamentalists.

"The owner of Vakufska Bank is Yasin Al-Kadi, who is being investigated in the States," Trifunovic explained. "If Bosnia-Hercegovina High Representative Paddy Ashdown claims that this is not the case, let him get in touch with me so that we can give him information about the Al-Qa'idah network inthe Balkans," he added. Trifunovic informed his American collocutors about suspiciously large correspondence between young Balkan Islamists from the LIVO network and their foreign fellow believers about the 2004 Olympic Games in. "This is very disturbing and leads us to believe that the main threat to the security at the Olympic Games will come from the Balkans," Trifunovic stressed and added that it was very easy to enter Greece illegally from southern Albania and Western Europe through Bosnia-Hercegovina and Croatia. "International terrorism experts regard the Balkans as a gateway for terrorists to the West," he recalled.

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