from another source [FR's angkor]:
(a) several of the 9/11 hijackers (starting with Nawaf Alhazmi and Hani Hanjour) made their phoney Virginia ID connection at Dar al-Hijra mosque [in Falls Church, VA](b) the address used on those 9/11 phoney ID's was 5913 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church 22044, an address less than one mile east of Dar al-Hijra (which is also on Leesburg Pike);
(c) that Malvo/Muhammad were stopped several times and at several locations along Leesburg Pike during their October spree (if I recall from Tysons Corner all the way east to the Leesburg Shopping Plaza at South George Mason Drive).
As an aside, it's remarkable that every time there is another incident involving Dar al-Hijra, it members, or its imams, that these are identified in the press as "a Northern Virginia mosque." Turn over the rock, and you're right back at the epicenter of 9/11, Malvo/Muhammad, and Wahabbist activity in Virginia.
By the way, I've posted before that Dar al-Hijra is in equally close proximity to the office of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (formerly run by OBL's brother) and had on its board at least once banker to Osama bin Laden.
56 posted on 06/30/2003 3:33:31 AM PDT by angkor
The Dar al Hijra mosque is the mosque of cleric Ali al Timimi. Al Timimi is known for being a central figure in the paintball cell / va jihad group and...
Timimi, an Iraqi-American scientist as well as cleric, plays a role in the anthrax investigation.
On al Midhar:
* Khalid al-Midhar aka Khalid Almihdhar : 911 Hijacker who attended the Malaysia terror summit. When hijacker Khalid al Midhar arrived in Malaysia in January of 2000 for a meeting of key al Qaeda operatives, he was met at the airport by an Iraqi named Ahmad Shakir, who worked part-time greeting VIPs, a job he got with the help of someone in the Iraqi Embassy. One week later, al Midhar flew to the US, and 18 months later he was aboard the airliner that crashed into the Pentagon. He is considered one of the most important hijackers because he was in charge of the so-called muscle – the young Saudi men responsible for subduing the passengers. - "9/11 Bombshell: New Evidence Of Iraq-Al Qaeda Ties?," by David Martin, CBS News Oct. 1, 2002 David Martin
On Malaysia in 2000, from another source :
1999 late /early 2000 : (KSM SENDS ABU EISA AL HINDI TO KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA TO MEET WITH HAMBALI aka RIDUAN ISSAMUDDIN --SEE JI, S AFRICA, CA) Under interrogation by U.S. investigators [after his arrest in Pakistan in 2003] , Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, has described [Abu Eisa ] al-Hindi as a trusted senior al-Qaida operative....Mohammed also revealed that he sent al-Hindi in late 1999 or early 2000 to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to meet with Riduan Isamuddin, known as Hambali. Hambali is accused of collaborating closely with al-Qaida in Southeast Asia as operations chief of the Jemmah Islamiyah terror organization and of perpetrating deadly attacks in Indonesia. He, too, is in U.S. custody.
Hambali told interrogators that al-Hindi gave him two addresses where al-Hindi said his allies could be contacted, one in South Africa and another "possibly in California," according to the commission's account of Hambali's interviews in September 2003. Hambali said he had not given the addresses to anyone else.---- "U.S.: al-Qaida Suspect Cased New York." Associated Press, Posted on 08/07/2004 9:21:13 PM PDT by wallace144
JANUARY 2000 : (MALAYSIA : TERROR SUMMIT ATTENDED BY JI OP CHIEF 'HAMBALI'-- SEE SECOND WAVE PLOT) Jemaah Islamiyah's operations chief, Riduan Isamuddin Hambali, had attended part of the January 2000 meeting in Kuala Lumpur [, Malaysia] but Mohammed [KSM] said he [Hambali] was there at that time only because "as a rule had had to be informed" of events in his region. Later, Hambali's operative began training possible recruits for the second wave, according to the [KSM] interrogation report.
One of those who received training in Malaysia before coming to the United States was Zacarias Moussaoui, the Frenchman accused of conspiring with the Sept. 11 attacks. Moussaoui has denied being part of the Sept. 11 plot, and U.S. and foreign intelligence officials have said he could have been set for hijacking a plane in a later wave of attacks.----------------- "AP Exclusive: Mastermind reveals Sept. 11 plot started in 1996, included 10 planes on two coasts," by JOHN SOLOMON, Associated Press Writer, Associated Press , Sunday, September 21, 2003
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*********** According to documents obtained by NEWSWEEK, Al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed told U.S. investigators after his capture last year [2003] that a high-ranking Qaeda lieutenant known as Khallad originally was "selected" to participate in the 9/11 attacks as a "bouncer"--one of the musclemen assigned to corral and subdue passengers on a hijacked plane. Khallad, a one-legged Yemeni also known as Tawfiq bin Attash, attended a January 2000 "summit" meeting in Malaysia at which he allegedly went over plans for 9/11 with two future hijackers, Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi. After the meeting, Almihdhar and Alhazmi traveled to the United States. But Khallad apparently was unable to get a U.S. visa; instead, authorities say, he went on to mastermind the October 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole in Yemen. He was finally captured in Karachi, Pakistan, a year ago [2003]. ------- "Interrogation: Al Qaeda and Anthrax," by Mark Hosenball, Newsweek, 4/8/2004
JANUARY 2000 : (YAZID SUFAAT MEETS TWO ARAB NATIONALS AT HIS CONDOMINIUM HOME IN KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA - See MALAYSIAN TERROR SUMMIT, ANTHRAX, MOUSSAOUI) JAKARTA, April 14 (IslamOnline) - Alleged Al-Qaeda operative, Yazid Sufaat, denied terror charges, while he admitted that he met two Arab nationals at his condominium in Kuala Lumpur two years ago [in 2000], a news report from
Malaysiakini.com said on Sunday. However, Sufaat, high on the FBI list of suspects from South East Asia, who might be members or operatives of the Al-Qaeda, stressed the duo could not be involved in the Sept 11 attacks as they were amputees shopping for prosthetic legs in Malaysia.
The 37-year-old pathologist and former army captain, who is also a businessmen in Malaysia, told this to a three-member review panel at the Kamunting Detention Centre in Perak last Thursday. This was his second hearing, one of his lawyers told IslamOnline.
Sufaat was arrested in December last year [2001] following a petition filed by the FBI against a French-Morocan citizen Zacharias Massaoui, who is believed to be the first Al-Qaeda operative charged in court. In the pettition, Yazid Sufaat’s name was mentioned as a business sponsor of Massaoui, who was entitled to a salary of US2000 for representing the import export company of Sufaat. ------- "Alleged Al-Qaeda Operative Sufaat Denies Terror Charges," by Kazi Mahmood, Islam Online, April 14 2002