would be sending him a new colleague shortly, he bided his time and worked
for a few weeks at a gas station in La Mesa where some of his friends, includ-
ing Abdullah, were employed. On one occasion, Hazmi told a fellow employee
that he was planning to find a better job, and let slip a prediction that he would
become famous.
airport.We do not know where Hanjour stayed; a few days later, both men left
San Diego. Before departing, they visited the gas station in La Mesa, where
Hazmi reportedly introduced Hanjour as a "long time friend from Saudi Ara-
bia." Hazmi told his housemate that he and his friend "Hani" were headed for
San Jose to take flying lessons and told his friends that he would stay in touch.
Hazmi promised to return to San Diego soon, and he and Hanjour drove off.
lah twice: in December 2000 or January 2001, Hazmi said he was in San Fran-
cisco and would be attending flight school there; about two weeks later, he said
he was attending flight school in Arizona. Some evidence, which we will dis-
cuss later, indicates that Hazmi contacted Abdullah again, in August 2001. In
addition, during the month following Hazmi's departure from San Diego, he
emailed his housemate three times, including a January 2001 email that Hazmi
signed "Smer," an apparent attempt to conceal his identity that struck the
housemate as strange at the time. Hazmi also telephoned his housemate that
he and his friend had decided to take flight lessons in Arizona, and that Mih-
dhar was now back in Yemen.That was their last contact.When the housemate
emailed Hazmi in February and March of 2001 to find out how he was far-
ing, Hazmi did not reply.
among local police and FBI personnel. He did not see anything unusual enough
in the behavior of Hazmi or Mihdhar to prompt him to report to his law
enforcement contacts. Nor did those contacts ask him for information about
his tenants/housemates.
In the early summer of 2000, the Hamburg group arrived in the United States
to begin flight training. Marwan al Shehhi came on May 29, arriving in Newark
on a flight from Brussels. He went to New York City and waited there for