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    1) The memorandum summarizes an interview with FBI Special Agent Elizabeth Rivas regarding her investigation into individuals associated with hijackers who met at a Mediterranean restaurant in Los Angeles. 2) SA Rivas obtained information on the ownership of the restaurant after learning hijackers met there with another individual. Checks on prior utility subscribers at the restaurant location did not yield useful information. 3) The LA JTTF confirmed that one individual who received a letter stating they were no longer welcome at the King Fahad Mosque after 9/11 had been among five who received such letters.

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    1) The memorandum summarizes an interview with FBI Special Agent Elizabeth Rivas regarding her investigation into individuals associated with hijackers who met at a Mediterranean restaurant in Los Angeles. 2) SA Rivas obtained information on the ownership of the restaurant after learning hijackers met there with another individual. Checks on prior utility subscribers at the restaurant location did not yield useful information. 3) The LA JTTF confirmed that one individual who received a letter stating they were no longer welcome at the King Fahad Mosque after 9/11 had been among five who received such letters.

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    1) The memorandum summarizes an interview with FBI Special Agent Elizabeth Rivas regarding her investigation into individuals associated with hijackers who met at a Mediterranean restaurant in Los Angeles. 2) SA Rivas obtained information on the ownership of the restaurant after learning hijackers met there with another individual. Checks on prior utility subscribers at the restaurant location did not yield useful information. 3) The LA JTTF confirmed that one individual who received a letter stating they were no longer welcome at the King Fahad Mosque after 9/11 had been among five who received such letters.

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    1) The memorandum summarizes an interview with FBI Special Agent Elizabeth Rivas regarding her investigation into individuals associated with hijackers who met at a Mediterranean restaurant in Los Angeles. 2) SA Rivas obtained information on the ownership of the restaurant after learning hijackers met there with another individual. Checks on prior utility subscribers at the restaurant location did not yield useful information. 3) The LA JTTF confirmed that one individual who received a letter stating they were no longer welcome at the King Fahad Mosque after 9/11 had been among five who received such letters.

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    • MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

    Event: Interview of FBI Special Agent Elizabeth Rivas

    Date: September 29, 2003

    Special Access Issues: none

    Prepared by: Hyon Kim

    Team Number: 1A

    Location: FBI Los Angeles Field Division, Los Angeles, CA

    Participants-Commission: Hyon Kim, Michael Jacobson

    SA Rivas has been a Special Agent since 1997.

    Based on the reporting of the meeting of the hijackers and Bayoumi at the Mediterranean
    Restaurant, SA Rivas obtained information on the ownership of the restaurant. I

    • 9/11 Classified Information

    ACS did not hit on the names of the previous subscribers to utilities at the restaurant
    location.

    9/11 Classified Information

    LA JTTF confirmed t~~d Iwas among the five individuals who, post-9111, received
    letters from the K~~g'Fahad Mosque that they were no longer welcome at KFM .

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    "",J-ie'i$ a '{jSc,i~izen of Syrian background, naturalized 6/16/95,

    There i~'a.school·al·tb.e mosque, between 4 and 6:30 p.m. The Koran and Arabic are
    taught! 'teaches··at.~~e school.

    Thumairy and Muhanna have preached at the Overland mosque.

    There are about 40 to 50'artendees at Overland.

    Also associated with the address ..at Overland is Quranic Association of North America
    (QENA). Muhanna has made depositsinto the bank account of QENA.

    \\ The bookstore is down the street from·'KFM. As of March 2~o~~i


    \J . 't}"he bookstore sold"I"'sj"""a-m""'ic-m-a-te~ri"'a""ls-.
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    \ There was not mucb bUSi~ss at the bookstore," I
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    Al- Thumairy provides funding for the bookstore.

    9/11 Classified Information

    • \ Charef ..was arrested for trespassing at the KFM on 11/20102, and had an altercation with
    \ Mouh~~\ Fouda in early 2003.

    t==Ji~.~ot a part owner of the restaurant and is not an imam at Overp;.la..,n_d_ ..


    citizen o.{Palestinian descent ann has heen in th~ Tr~ for nine ears.
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    On 3119/03] Iwas interviewed as part of the disruption operations at the


    commencement of the Iraq war. He was cooperative, provided phone numbers, and
    answered ai.{.questions. In May, he sold all his belongings and moved to Jordan.

    The Kuwaiti'l lis a student at Cal State Long Beach, in the US on a


    student visa. He is associated with Murad Murad, and traveled with him to Phoenix and
    met with al- Thukair. The Phoenix group has also traveled to California.

    9/11 Classified Information

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    ~~ ....hs a naturalized US citizen from Mexico. He converted and attended the Islamic.
    University at Medina. He travels frequently to Saudi Arabia. He ran the bookstore but it
    ! was not successful. He returned to Saudi Arabia in September of2003. He has a son,
    I ;1 . 1 He has not been seen going to Overland mosque.

    9/11 Personal Privacy

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