[Aliska]

Now I just heard on the radio that a former roommate of Atta was arrested in Maryland(?). Think they said he was Jordanian. Was only half listening and I don't know if this is the same arrest/raid referred to in the original post.

Details will trickle out

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You'll probably learn that most Jordanians here are actually Pallys. Jordan is the only country that gives them a "sort of" passport.

That said, some of Clinton's biggest supporters were "Jordanians" that were actually Pallys.

Do a google on H.Masri, Farouki and like DC names.

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This is what you probably heard:

Alien Arrest In Highlandtown

June 24, 2002

The Associated Press

Agents from the F-B-I and the State Department have arrested a 27-year-old Jordanian national suspected of making illegal payoffs for visas obtained from a U-S embassy overseas.

Rasmi Alshannaq was arrested this morning at the home he shares with his father in Baltimore's Highlandtown neighborhood.

According to the warrants, agents were looking for evidence that an insider at a U-S embassy in the Middle East is illegally supplying documents to help people who've been denied entry into the United States.

Authorities say Alshannaq lived in Jordan but entered the United States from Qatar in October of 2000. Authorities believe he may have obtained a visa illegally in Qatar after his attempts to emigrate from Jordan were unsuccessful.