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{ as obese be ---- Working Copy ---- AL-AMIR: -. - Co befriended AL-AMIR. knows AL-AMIR by his true name and prior to approximately 9/14/2001, had never heard the name MUHAMMED ATTA. * 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, AL-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 indicate 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 _milita: nor did he ever have any technical training which would be helpful to carrying out any of the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001. °C erase SRS Re ERTS SES FRE URIS pears in caize until May 1996, when he traveled to the Unite tates and lived in Long Tsland and applied for civil engineering jobs. Lo rn that he could not get satisfactory employment in the United States without a graduate degree. * When[ —___| first ived_in New York in May 1996, he lived for about two weeks with a distant cousin whom er met or spoken with before coming to New York. then moved into apartment with (CRET ACS REQ 11-24-03 000000205