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Alrababah knew that the FBI was looking for himand went to FBI New Haven. His first"story" about meeting the hijackers at the 7-11 in Falls Church was a lie, and it took 10months before he got his final version of the story, which SA Bukowski characterizes as"90 percent" of the story. In the final version, Alrababah admitted to meeting thehijackers at the Dar al Hijrah mosque, and witnessing the fight involving the imam there.Alrababah claims th~4 lold him to go to the mosque to ask for work, and that itwa~1 li~7~ to move to VA.I . . Iwas granted asylum, despite pending document fraud charges involving:/ ~:btalnlng Sa~sii work papers for Syrians. .

SA Bukowski found it suspicious that Alrababah stayed in the hotel room in CT with the'hijackers when he had' an apartment nearby. There is also a good identification from thelib.~ai-yin Paterson placing Alrababah with Hanjour, though Alrababah denies it. ..There are four missing nights for when the hijackers first arrived in Paterson. SA....Bukowski thinks it is likely that the sta ed at 8 Roberts .~Jreet-:l Iwas in VA atthe time, and there are calls from ,tp.8.Robert's Sf during this time period,though it:iS .~OS~ib ,15tl1~ t w asC iiH i~gdhi~fden~ F h o lived.: ::=:;:::~~~~~~~.

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Event: Interview of FBI Special Agent Bob BukowskiType of event: Interview. Dates: November 6, 2003 ,Special Access Issues: NonePrepared by: Hyon Kim .Team Number: 1ALocation: FBI, Newark Field OfficeParticipants - Non-Commission: Supervisory Special Agent Hank Allison, 9/11Commission Task ForceParticipants - Commission: Rajesh De, Hyon Kim

SA Bukowski got a lead post 9/11 from WFO to locate and interview Alrababah andAlfauru .

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there. Alrababah had once lived on Roberts St., but not at number 8. The address at 8Roberts St. is also around the comer from 1 Montclair .. The hijackers did not want to go to Alrababah's apartment in CT, and Alrababah didn'twant to bring them home. The hijackers did use Alrababah's old Paterson address toreg~ster at the. hotel.Alrababah was not polygraphed. After some time in detention, he became incoherent andappeared to suffer some type of breakdown.The person who actually tlped te hijackers at the DMV, Luiz Martinez Flores, worksfor Alrababah's associate ..who had the driving school and provided the addressfor the driver's licenses. .FBI New Haven did follow up on A'l,rababah's friendl lin Bridgeport, who got intoan argument with the hijackers about' ..enting his apartment. !I I~as made phone calls to the"'S,audi embassy in Deiand the Saudi embassy inRUSSIa,oste'n~~bl~ looking for a job as a~, interpreter. I Idenies having actuallygone' to the SauQ~.embassy. \..... /______ -..Jv.;~swa~ieQfor document fraud.jmd that is why lie C!~meto the US onSA Bukowski finds it suspicious that Alrababah would have had the meeting with Aulaqiand then turned around andvran into" the hijackers when tHer~ were 400 to 500 people atthe mosque for Friday 'pr~yers>'" \.. ! !!Alrababah testified against Alfauruon the driver'slicense ~c~eRle-,'SA Bukowski believes that Alrababah.and would be willing to talk to theCommission. I l i s . .still in th~.p'ate,~so~ area .. \~\. . .

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