Sufaat,Yazid

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One inofficial FBI report claimed in January 2002, that Yazid Sufaat was one of the financiers of Moussaoui,HabibZacarias. Officials said they had found evidence that Mr. Sufaat provided Mr. Moussaoui with at least $35,000 in meetings near Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital, in September and October of 2000. Sufaat, 37, was arrested Dec. 9, 2001 as he returned to Kuala Lumpur from Afghanistan, where authorities said he fought against the U.S.-led coalition. Sufaat was in contact with Fathur Rohman Al-Ghozi, a demolitions expert for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a separatist group seeking to create an Islamic state in the southern Philippines. Sufaat bought some explosives through a company he owned called Green Laboratory Medicine, according to law enforcement sources. Ghozi was arrested Jan. 15, 2002 in Manila by Philippine immigration officials acting on a tip from police in Singapore. In November 2002, the NY Times picked up Yazid Sufaats story again. In the meantime he turned into "a Malaysian businessman and former army captain" with a "U.S. degree in biochemistry", who was captured in a malysian camp. Due to the NY Times story, "Sufaat is suspected of providing employment documents to Moussaoui,HabibZacarias so he could get a U.S. Visa". "Yazid was first spotted by police in January 2000 meeting al-Midhar and al-Hazmi, and is said to have met with Moussaoui in September and October that year. The information was shared with U.S. security agencies at that time. He was finally picked up in December (2001) while returning to Malaysia via Thailand from Afghanistan. He is being held at Kamunting detention camp under the Internal Security Act, which allows detention without trial".

Sufaat was allowed to contact a lawyer (Saiful Izham Ramli) at the camp while the FBI questioned him who was either present during the questioning or briefed about it after. Sources: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-malaysia-militant.html http://www.talkleft.com/archives/001428.html

As TV3 Malaysia later found out, the FBI never sent a report to Malaysia: "Deputy Home Minister, Datuk Zainal Abidin Zin, said the ministry is supposed to have received the report last week, through the Inspector-General of Police, Tan Sri Norian Mai. "The FBI have not conveyed any information to us as of last week. They should have given us a report as promised, as part of the cooperation given by the Home Ministry and Yazid Sufaat." http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:II6bskKNFtwC:www.tv3.com.my/news/nl/december2002/1_news4.html+yazid+sufaat&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Sufaats story, his connection with Moussaoui and the observation was never mentioned again or made any big news at all. In July 2002, Moussaoui accused the FBI that they observed everyone of the 19 hijackers and that the FBI "knew about the terror attacks before they took place". "They arrested me and not Hanjour who was a few week before me at Pan Am Flight School (and has been reported to be a danger) because they knew that I was not with the 19 hijackers and therefore they will not be alerted... by my arrest" Moussaoui believes, that the US government "cynically allowed September 11 in order to destroy Afghanistan." Source: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_620820.html?menu

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