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Home Front: WoT
Algerian who knew two Sept. 11 hijackers deported from San Diego
2005-01-01
A man who met with two Sept. 11 hijackers before they crashed an American Airlines jet into the Pentagon has been deported from San Diego to Algeria, the Department of Homeland Security said Friday.

Samir Abdoun, 38, was arrested 11 days after the 2001 attacks and convicted of immigration and passport violations and Social Security fraud, according to Homeland Security.

He had met with hijackers Nawaf al Hazmi and Khalid al Mihdhar, according to Homeland Security, and lived in San Diego with four men who were arrested as material witnesses in the hijacking of American Airlines Flight 77.

Abdoun met the two hijackers for coffee several times but was never arrested as a material witness, said Lauren Mack, a department spokeswoman. He told federal agents that he was not friends with them, she said. "He moved in the same circles as the 9/11 hijackers," said Ron Smith, field office director for detention and removal operations in San Diego.

Armed federal agents escorted Abdoun onto a commercial flight Thursday in San Diego and he arrived Friday in Algeria, where authorities took him into custody, Mack said. Abdoun entered the United States in August 1998 by presenting a false French passport in Los Angeles, Homeland Security said. Border Patrol agents first arrested him in November 1998 at a checkpoint on Interstate 5 in San Clemente, but he failed to appear at deportation proceedings.
Posted by:tipper

#5  Adoun is dirty. Not all terrorsists strap bombs. Some are required to provide safe havens, support, communicaton, recon, and religious direction. From Frank's article:
Authorities said in a criminal complaint that Abdoun, who had worked for minimum wage, traveled extensively throughout Malaysia, Thailand, India, Japan, Singapore and Australia using a French passport that identified him as Alexandre Daniel Esaie Aubron.

Terrorism will continue to be effective and mass murder profitable as long as the west treats it like a criminal matter, and not the dirtiest/lowest form of warfare. Adoun should have been taken out in the desert and shot and his family hunted down.
Posted by: ed   2005-01-01 8:53:01 PM  

#4  It's wonderful what can be accomplished with a mere three years of legal wrangling over a terrorist accomplice.
Posted by: Zenster   2005-01-01 5:06:04 PM  

#3  Sounds like the put him on the wrong plane. Should have been that CIA ghost plane that discharges passengers enroute.
Posted by: Tom   2005-01-01 12:13:41 PM  

#2  here's the SD paper's article on it
Posted by: Frank G   2005-01-01 12:11:59 PM  

#1  hope the Algerians have some serious plans for this mook. We're done with him. BTW the San Diego-area Islamic community's started to STFU about these proceedings - not a street protest to be seen. Wised up
Posted by: Frank G   2005-01-01 12:09:32 PM  

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