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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

Event: Interview of FBI Special Agentl..... -!l,fl

Type of event: Interview

Date: January 7, 2004

Special Access Issues: None

Law Enforcement Privacy
Prepared by: Dieter Snell, 1/10/04

Team Number: 1A

Location: FBI, Phoenix

Participants - Non-Commission: FBliA,~Sis~nt4en~ral Counsel Sean O'Neill

Participants - Commission: Dieter}liil, ~itj De \ \\

Special Agent ,:Ih¥'

spent his e~tir~ \13-year career with the FBI' in the

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Phoenix office. He has been out/of t~ ofryte for about ~O weeks and spent 2 months in
Afghanistan, :' ...! :, :

In October 19961 .../ ias a~igned to SSAJ\m George's international

terrorism squad, which concentrated on Barnas andHizbollah, One of the first
significant casesl Kvork¢d on involved a hornicideiin which a Pakistani or
Afghani "Mufti" named Raes Tinadayala was implicated. tinadayala was active in the
Dawa movement. :/ / i; \. \

After 9/11,1 l-became involved in thel cases o~Lofti Raissi, Sofiane

Lameche and Redouane Dahmani cases, which drew particular attention when Raissi's
phone numb.er ~howed up in Abu Dpha's London apartment. \ One name that kept
up 10 the Ralssl case was that oft ! J..Eyentua~pe~ed the
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case with an LHM and had I ~k:~ a polygraph, which \ believesturne U '

~roy~.~..~ot tobe forthcoming oq ...a num

"deceptive.'l
fact that both he and Raissi wor.kSdat Wild Om:b [:WP3nyenI 0 Issue~,,'iriCIuding the
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Althoughl Imitiant"~t~t~d~'
when intervi~wed shortly after 9/11, that Hani
Hanjour was in Phoenix "a copple of months ago," he later backed away from this
statement, such tha~ (thinks the Hanjour sighting could have been as early as the
January-March 2001 time frame when Hanjour is known to have been residing in
Phoenix. The claim that Raissi helped train Hanjour is based on an undated Sawyer
Aviation computer screen that states simply "Hani." I Iwas never able to uncover
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May 2001.

I~hinksc:::::JniiYfia~~~~~~~edWe~i~~d
Raissi' and Hanjour also were there. I
Raissi was in Phoenix starting in
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Aviation in the I990s when

(admitted seeing Hanjour at the mosque a
couple of times but denied ever seeing Nawaf AI-Hazmi. Raissi 's flight log book, which
Pri vacy

was seized by New Scotland Yard, has a page missing from June 2001 ...1 Lvorked
to see whether terrorism charges could be brought against Raissi butwas unable to come
up with anything more than a charge arising out ofRaissi's failureto disclose a knee
operation to the FAA and providing assistance to Dahmani .inthe latter's false asylum
application. Raissi is now suing the US government for.his detention in Britain.
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/ Sofiane Lameche was Raissi's best friend'f~om Algeria. Phoenix management

directed that Lameche and Dahmani be deported, even though they had the most
irformation on Raissi. "

./, !also was the co,:",ca~~'

agent on the Soubra case, and participated in the
!search of Soubra' s storage locker.

. iii. also .handl~s a source who fonnerl was in Tucson and who knew
/ W.aq,fu EI-Hage. 9/11 Law Enforcement Sensitive

./ :(': ae a, Iso cited the presence of AbdulJah Azzam in Tucson and the
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;l// Center office there.

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