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| California link to 9/11 still murky |
| 2004-07-24 |
| In June 2000, a former San Diego State University student named Mohdar Abdullah and two new friends from Saudi Arabia drove from their apartments in San Diego to Los Angeles International Airport. The trip, Abdullah would later say, was designed to show the men how to get to LAX because one was leaving the country the next day. After renting a motel room, the three visited the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City to pray. To Abdullah's surprise, his friends already knew several people at the mosque, one of whom would meet them that night at the motel. Today, investigators believe the encounter of two future Sept. 11 hijackers with a man later deported by the U.S. government demonstrated that Al Qaeda had put a terrorist support network in place in Southern California long before the attacks of 2001. That conclusion is contained deep in the final report published this week by the bipartisan commission investigating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The finding is both alarming and probably unprovable. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |