Message #180961

[Nomad]

The CIA were already aware of his contacts with Muslim extrememist at this point, and were even told to track him by their counterparts in Germany.

You see, the others are also already being monitored in December of 1999 and this proves it.....

Once in Kuala Lumpur, the Al Qaeda operatives were photographed -- at the CIA's request -- by Malaysian authorities at a series of meetings.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/could/

The men were followed at the request of the CIA. The Americans had intercepted a telephone call to Yemen in which Almihdhar detailed arrangements for the trip. The Americans didn't know Almihdhar, but they knew the number he called was used as a dispatch center for Al Qaeda. Bin Laden had called it dozens of times over a period of years in the late 1990s, according to court records....