Event
Gathering in Kuala Lumpur, January 2000
The CIA watched Khalid al-Mihdhar and other men gather in Kuala Lumpur.
- Dates
- 5–8 Jan 2000
- Place
- Kuala Lumpur
Connections 3
involved
- Khalid al-Mihdhar tracked by the CIA Primary record 1
- Nawaf al-Hazmi traveled with Mihdhar Primary record 1
located in
- Kuala Lumpur Primary record 1
Timeline 1 date
- 5–8 Jan 2000 Gathering in Kuala Lumpur, January 2000
Proof 1 source
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The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, 9-11-commission, 22 Jul 2004.
Primary record
He was located leaving Yemen and tracked until he arrived in Kuala Lumpur on January 5, 2000.
Though Nawaf ’s trail was temporarily lost, the CIA soon identified “Khalid” as Khalid al Mihdhar.
The CIA did not try to register Mihdhar or Hazmi with the State Department’s
TIPOFF watchlist—either in January, when word arrived of Mihdhar’s visa, or in March, when word came that Hazmi, too, had had a U.S. visa and a ticket to Los Angeles.
None of this information—about Mihdhar’s U.S. visa or Hazmi’s travel to the United States—went to the FBI, and nothing more was done to track any of the three until January 2001, when the investigation of another bombing, that of the USS Cole, reignited interest in Khallad.
They later learned that one of his companions was named Alhazmi, although it was not yet known that he was “Nawaf.”
arrived in Kuala Lumpur on January 5, 2000
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