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To: Ottawa From: San Diego Re: 265A-NY-280350 , 04/11/2002 On September 13, 2001, FBI agents from the San Diego Field Office interviewed flight instructors at the Sorbi Flight Club which is located at the Montgomery Airfield, San Diego, California. According to the flight instructors, in May of 2000, Al-Hazmi and Al-Mihdhar began taking flying lessons with the Sorbi Flight Club. Al-Hazmi and Al-Mihdhz expressed a strong interest in.flying Boeing and jet aircraft. Al-Hazmi and Al-Mihdhar were instructed that they would have to learn to fly smaller single engine aircraft first. Al-Hazmi and Al-Mihdhar took approximately six flying lessons at the Sorbi Flight Club. Al-Hazmi and Al-Mihdhar were mainly preoccupied with.learning to control the aircraft while airborne and took no interest in takeoffs and landings and made little effort to improve those flying skills. On September 15, 2001, Special Agents of the FBI made contact person named During an initial interview, citizen of Yemen, was raised in Saudi Arabla, and entered the United States in 1998 on a student visal +d remained silent when asked if he knew Al-Hazmi and Al-Mihdar. He denied knowledge of the terrorist events of September 11, 2001. During subsequent interviews with [Cdn September 15 and 16, z001,[ __dacnicted knowing A] me Hazmi and Al-Mihdhar and advised that he Nha em at a local Mosque approximately eighteen months ago and regularly prayed there with them. claimed that he regularly gave them English lessons and attempted to help them adjust to life in the United States. In July of 2000, he m i partment located California recalled ‘that Al-Hazmi and Al-Mihdhar were still listed on the lease at that time but were preparing to move out. said that in December 2000 he moved into a residence located at after Al-Hazmi and Al-Mihdhar moved out of the residence. On September 15, 2001,|__———_—iddgranted Special Agents of the FBI consent to search his room and his home computer at the The San Diego Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory ("RCFL") subsequently performed a forensic analysis of computer. The RCFL uncovered several web pages on the computer's hard drive which expressed strong anti-American sentiments. These web pages contained headlines such as "America's Campaign to Destrc Islam," "U.S. & Britian Kill Muslim Children In Genocide Attempt," and "/ Message From Bin Laadin[sic]: Declaration of War." There were also sever web pages in support of the Muslims and their war against the Russians ir Chechnya. Digital records from computer revealed the email address MOHDAR78@HOTMAIL.COM. Investigation at Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District, 8800 Grossmont College Drive, El Cajon, California by the FBI revealed that the email address, MOHDAR78@HOTMAIL.COM, was provided by Mohdar Abdullah as a point of contact.