FBI Vault Investigation Feb 2002

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This has occurred, in part, be ause the Country - codes were not included or the toll records were parsed by the telephone companies; therefore, incomplete numbers ended up being uploaded. This communication is requesting information on A telephone numbers which have been verified by analysts as being an accurate representation of the complete number as provided by the associated telephone companies. In requesting information ' regardingtelephone numbers, please request the data in an electronic format and verify that the toll records include complete telephone numbers. The submittin A ent has been rworkingwith closely ecial S rovAgent£::g:::;§:;?:::::]of the New de te eonic concurrence for Y York Division and S Phoenix to request p_ the telephone ~p information from the case ID _S§;£QE92 = 265A NY 280350-CD REQ 3 Supp. #1~gl V ., Serial Al e- 17302 A 000092045 -A Q ' sotLbl L- t Working Copy - bvc b 5 Page 2 - aforementioned Legats. Details; U! II was recently released on extradition preceedinqs bail in the United Kingdom pending steminq from federal indictments J_ in I Phoenix, Arizona. I I ll interest due to his are linked association with to Alqerian F Hani Hanjour Islamic extremist and oEhers who orqanizations. Ili-W U! B wav of background efforts are continuing to As set forth lrelow, we have intolmation indicates which determine the may have relationship with provided traini njour. To Hani Han'0ur date, however, we have no documentation showin . Itrained Hanjour. We have documentatio Ithe same plane with Hanjour while Hanjour was recetxainingl ying Ionsubmittin A I G3/O8/1999. Moreover, the on 12/O1/2001 that Hanjour accompanying them Il Ll 4a;_,;l., ,...;. __1 .. <M. on the }.i92 in order ' sé gzew I I I .- would have had to approve of training flight [R1-ZQ3 Supp. #1 g ; I, ent - »I to - 000002046 ,__,_& N-W. 92 _ -H. , M i -. I 92 ~lanai» ....-a . D6 I V permit[:::::]to J-1,! ._~,. ;t. SE&ET Page 3 at Working Copy - -~ accompany them. Weknowthat[:::::::::]Hanjour had overlapping periods of training at Arizona Aviation. .witnesses who stated that the socialized together. iThe _indicators which show provided We have training to ' i Hanjour are derived from the following; ! a computerized irecord revealing that Hani Hanjour was signed up to be amember of the Sawyer School of Aviation Simulator Club hereafter referred date to as Sawyer! on 6/23/2001; that Rayed Abdullah, Faisal moreover, Al~Salmi signed.up for the simulator club,»and, statement that Rayed Abdullah, Instructor this and Lotfi was the same Raissi also i four individuals were observed together at Sawyer, Faisal Al Salmi, Lotfi, the Algerian Flight and a fourth individual with physical 92 5 .13 7 C .b7L I characteristics similar to Hanjour who she subsequently picked out of a photo line up as being the fourth individual. Please note that she was not lO0% certain that it was Hanjour;. She described him as being a shadowy guy, Arab looking, 5'6" tall, short cut dark hair, maybe some facial hair, with a thin "wiry build." Sawyer's the facility and utilizing the 92 is, people frequently brought», records regarding people entering simulator were not complete, that guests into their visit the simulator or an attempt without there being to identify them. a record made of U! It is feasible that Hanjour came to Phoenix in June 2001 to receive additional training on the simulator because he would need to take the hijacked airplane off of autopilot and utilize instrumentation to fly the aircraft into it's target.'Aircraft simulators are exceptionally well suited for training on instrumentation. s instruction o provided however, had a covering June 26, of March 2000 through revealed {jg missing entries page removed and was therefore the period records so have anjour. in 23-25/2001. the 2001. AST-300 simulator Sawyer on Itistheorized when the simulator was entered in confronted of theprospect of law enforcemen au tori ies r discovering entries] -training of Hanjour tore out the associated who was introduced to ldocumenting the log Han'our and had "' ' o tioni s ated instrumentation; i _ qualified that therefore, to provide wou It1S Hanjour training. also theorized Hanjour only took the flying lessons because he was directed not because it was his ambition to become a pilot. Hanjour tremendous difficulties started over padditional his on at training that flying U! While is, attending asked fellow students would it be.the pilot in his training one occasion. simulator mission, AviationJ progressing least ground Therefore, school "if a plane or aircraft in into the England time 3 Supp. #1 _ g4 the Pentagon. at 92 4 1 Four Forces [to have were to fly into something, that did it?" 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