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JULY 2001 : (PHOENIX MEMO) ...Agent Ken Williams' July 2001 memo raised concerns about the students' affiliation with Sheik Omar Bakri Mohammed's group because the sheik had been involved with a fatwa — an Islamic call to action — that suggested airports as one of several legitimate attack targets in the United States, officials told The Associated Press.
In addition, Williams had identified another Muslim figure in Arizona who wasn't training at aviation schools but was linked through phone communications to one of bin Laden's top lieutenants, Abu Zubaydah, the officials said Wednesday, speaking only on condition of anonymity.
The agent had suspicions that the man might be communicating with one or more the flight school students, but he never succeeded in making a connection, officials said....
...Current and former government officials familiar with Williams' [Phoenix] memo and debriefings told the AP the counterterrorism agent from Phoenix had marked his July 10 memo as routine, meaning it did not require urgent action because of an imminent threat.
But they said the five-page document laid out in extensive investigative detail his concerns that students learning piloting, aviation engineering and airport operations at Arizona aviation schools might be preparing to help bin Laden carry out an attack. ...
...The officials said the agent had ascertained that several of the Arab students held anti-American views, and that one had expressed his hatred in extreme terms. Through interviews and intelligence, Williams linked several of the Middle Eastern students to the Al-Muhajiroun, an Islamic extremist group in London, the officials said....
...Bakri, also known as Omar Bakri Fostok, has been connected by U.S. and British intelligence to bin Laden and has openly supported bin Laden's calls for jihad, or holy war, against the United States, the officials said. Williams' memo mentioned one fatwa involving Bakri that identified several possible targets, including airports, the officials said.
Not mentioned in Williams' memo were several other links between the London sheik, who is of Syrian descent, and bin Laden.
Bakri was one of several Muslim leaders to receive a letter faxed from Afghanistan in the summer of 1998 from bin Laden that laid out four objectives for a jihad against the United States, including downing airliners.
"Bring down their airliners. Prevent the safe passage of their ships. Occupy their embassies. Force the closure of their companies and banks," the bin Laden letter to Bakri read.
Bakri also is quoted as calling himself "the mouth, eyes and ears" of bin Laden and his group recruits young Muslims to participate in a jihad across the globe.
Shortly after the USS Cole bombing in Yemen in October 2000, Bakri received an international call claiming responsibility for the attack on the U.S. ship from "Muhammad's Army," an extremist group previously known to be active only in the Russian regions of Chechnya and Dagestan. U.S. officials believe bin Laden was behind that attack as well.
Bakri has issued other fatwas against British leaders and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf — some since Sept. 11, officials said.
---------- Source : "Agent Linked Pilot Trainees, Bin Laden," By JOHN SOLOMON, Associated Press Writer, Thu May 23, 7:46 AM ET