[gumbo]

Looks as if Mohamed was "taken into custody" shortly after the embassy bombings in 1998. Hard to tell from the article whether he had contact with the WTC hijackers, but given their long training period and his many trips to Afghanistan, seems possible he could have been involved in a little Tauchenausbildung with them.

[aristeides]

Ali Mohamed was in Army special forces at Ft. Bragg. I would imagine scuba training is pretty standard for people in Army special ops. Can anybody confirm?