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"Klett was the undergraduate coordinator of N.C. A&T's mechanical engineering program for about a year when Mohammed enrolled in 1984. "He didn't stick out," Klett said.

Klett said Mohammed's name was unfamiliar to him until a Los Angeles Times reporter visited his office last fall with a photo of Mohammed released by the FBI. The picture of a bearded Arab man triggered *a* memory."

Pretty weak memory! Even the reporter noted that clearly by the careful wording. Could be a false memory -- "Of course that's what I remember -- why it must be so!"

Did you catch this?

Though Chowan required students including Mohammed to attend weekly Christian services, the school also tried to accommodate the needs of Muslim students, Lewis said.
"We provided a place for them to worship on campus," he said. "I remember we all got along very well."
He said sometimes the shoes of student worshippers, left outside in accordance to tradition, would be swiped and thrown in the lake as a prank pulled by the locals on the "Abbie Dahbies," as the Arabs were known.
Mohammed met with a more serious atmosphere at A&T when he enrolled in 1985. He was part of a sizeable Middle Eastern contingent, who watched soccer instead of football, socialized mostly among themselves and lived off campus.

How long will it be before KSM's hatred for the West is blamed on the Baptists! I can hear it now:

"Those Baptists required Arab students to go to their Christian chapel, and when these Muslims tried to worship in their own shoeless way, intolerant, hate-filled students threw their shoes into the lake!"

Pretty weak memory! Even the reporter noted that clearly by the careful wording. Could be a false memory -- "Of course that's what I remember -- why it must be so!"

Indeed. That is the strongest statement suggesting anybody recognized this fellow, and it's *very* weak. Note also that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was indicted in New York seven years ago for his co-authorship, with WTC bomber Ramzi Yousef, of "Project Bojinka," a plot to blow up eleven US airliners in flight over the Pacific in one day of terror. According to the New York Times, US intelligence "knows a great deal about Khalid Sheikh Mohammed." And yet, to judge from these articles, his supposed classmates are only now hearing that he's a terrorist. Didn't the FBI check to see if the INS ever granted a visa to a "Khalid Sheikh Mohammed"? Something doesn't add up.