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Article: Trail of an 'Enemy Combatant': From Desert to U.S. Heartland; Details Emerge About Marri's Alleged Role in 'Second Wave' of Al- Qaeda Attacks
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- The Washington Post
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- July 20, 2007
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The 37-year-old computer science student was racing against a
deadline. Just one day after picking up his visa from the U.S.
Embassy in Qatar, he boarded a plane with his wife and five small
children. The family flew to Chicago, caught a night's sleep at an
airport hotel, then squeezed into a taxi for a 200-mile ride through
farm country to Peoria.
That morning in New York, the twin towers were comin g down.
Within weeks, a string of tips would lead FBI agents to the
doorstep of the student, Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri. They eventually
came to believe that he was al-Qaeda's senior operative in the
United States, a sleeper agent who made an unexplained one-day trip
to New York City in the ...