FBI agent warned of suspicious students at flight schools

Saturday, May 4, 2002

WASHINGTON -- The summer before the Sept. 11 attacks, the FBI in Arizona alerted Washington that several Arabs were suspiciously training at a U.S. aviation school and urged that agents nationwide contact other schools where Middle Easterners might be studying.

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