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b6 Norking dop b7C Page 3 AL-AMIR: befriended AL-AMIR. knows AL-AmIR by his true name and prior to. * After graduation, AL-AmiR enrolled in an intensive German language program at a well-known school in Cairo named Gotta. AL-AMIR told that he needed to become fluent in. German to be eligible to attend a graduate level.civil engineering school in Germany. It was common knowledge among the engineering graduates from Cairo University that the best graduate engineering programs were in the United States or Germany. The American schools were known as selective and expensive and the German schools offered free tuition to any applicant who was fluent in German.. * In their senior year at Cairo University and for the next several years, lAL-AmiR and their friends frequented. a sports club in Cairo named Nadi Said, where they played soccer and basketball and swam. The club was co-ed; therefore, no fundamentalist Muslims came to the club. Between 1990 and 1998, AL-AmIR never expressed any extremist or fundamentalist beliefs, nor did he ever express any hostility to 'the United States or any other western country. * Between 1990 and 1998, AL-AMIR engaged in social activities such as attending movie theaters, which further indicated that AL-AmiR was not then a Muslim fundamentalist. * AL-Amir never talked about aviation or wanting to become a pilot. * AL-AmIR was never in the military, nor did he ever have any technical training which would be helpful to. carrying out any of the terrorist attacks of 9/li/200l.. in Cairo unti May 1996, when he traveled to the United States and lived in Long.. Island and applied for civil engineering jobs. found that he could not get satisfactory employment. in the United States without a graduate degree. * When first in New York in May 1996, he. lived about two weeks. with a distant cousin whom had York then moved into an apartment. with SECRET ACS REQ 11-24-03 000000205