
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Zacarias Moussaoui was arrested in August 2002 after a flight school instructor in Minnesota became suspicious of his desire to learn to fly a commercial jet. Agents, wanting to search his belongings, asked FBI headquarters to try to get a special search warrant under a law called the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Their request was denied. We now know that, back in August, Moussaoui's possessions contained evidence that would expose key elements of the Sept. 11 conspiracy. This includes a German phone number tracing back to the roommate of lead hijacker Mohammad Atta.
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