After Zacarias Moussaoui is arrested (see August 16, 2001), the FBI’s Minneapolis field office becomes very concerned that he may be part of a larger operation involving hijacked aircraft and that he represents a real threat to US national security. One of the agents, Harry Samit, will later say that he and his colleagues are “obsessed” with Moussaoui. Samit sends over 70 communications warning about Moussaoui to the following:
– The Hezbollah, bin Laden, and Radical Fundamentalist Units at FBI headquarters (see August 20-September 11, 2001);
– Another FBI field office (see August 23, 2001);
– The CIA (see August 24, 2001);
bullet The FBI’s offices in Paris and London;
– The FAA;
– The Secret Service;
– The Immigration and Naturalization Service; and
– Another intelligence agency (possibly the National Security Agency).