ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 10-22- 2012 BY 65179 DMH MJS FD-302 Rev 10-6-95 - I- FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGAT ION Date of transcription 09 15 2001 p b I 6 On September 15 2001 Special Agents SAs l and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI condUcted an o ANWAR NASSER AULAQI American citizen 3331 Kaywood Drive Falls Church Virginia 22041 cell phone 202-297-6224 date of birth 4 21 71 place of birth Las Crucas New Mexico social security number 521-77-7121 The following information was provided by AULAQI b C AULAQI advised that he did not expect to be interviewed by the FBI because on 9 13 01 two SAs from the FBI had arrived at the DAL HIJRA Mosque 3159 Row Street Falls Church Virginia and requested if anyone could iden tify a picture that the SAs had in their possession of one of the suspect s that took part in the hijacking on 9 11 01 AULAQI advised that he was not present at the mosque when the SAs were there but was told later in the day When questioned regarding his familiarity with the names of any of the hijackers AULAQI further advised that he was not familiar with any of the hijackers He also did not recognize any of the names because it would be difficult to identi fy them because of the English translation AULAQI stated that if he had the names in Arabic he would be much better able to make identification as to whether or not he knew them In January of 2001 AULAQI moved to his present address in Falls Church Virginia Prior to that he resided in San Diego California for approximately 5 years where he was the Imam of the AL-RIBAT Mosque While living in San Diego AULAQI attended the San Diego State University San Diego California part - time and received his Master's Degree in Education At present AULAQI is the Imam at DAL HIJRA and also attends school full-time at George Washington University washington D C where he is obtaining his PhD in Human Resource Development AULAQI advised that he is attending school through a scholarship provided by the Ministry of Education in Yemen He is paid a stipend of approximately $200 00 a month from his scholarship and receives a salary for h is position as Imam Over the past six months AULAQI has traveled quite extensively In mid August he took a three week trip to Sanaa Yemen where his father NASSER AULAQI who is a Yemen citizen and one of his brothers live AULAQI provided the name of his grandfather as ABDULLAH He was in Yemen for the wedding of his brother AULAQI stated that he has another brother who lives in Las Crucas New Mexico For the past three weeks AULAQI has traveled e very weekend Over the weekend of 9 1 01 he traveled to Chicago to attend the Islamic Society of Investigation on ____ ' __---at Date dictated ' · by SA Awlaki-90 9 15 01 L L __ _ _ r This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency c LAGJ b 6 b7C FD·302a Rev 10-6-95 2650-NY-280350-302 Continuation of FD-302 of 9 15 01 • Page -- 2'--- America Conference He was also in the United Kingdom on the weekend of 8 25 01 and last weekend 9 9 01 he spoke in San Diego at a conference which was a fund raiser for the JAMIL AMIN FUND H RAP BROWN The conference was orgafized by b6 the MUSLIM STUDENT ASSOCIATION through a friend of AULAQI's _LNU b7C I LNU also made the arrangements for AULAQI for a rental car and sleeping AULAQI stayed in Irvine for the majority of the conference and only spent one night in San Diego While in San Diego for the night AULAQI stayed at a house owned by the AL-RIBAT mosque and where AULAQI formerly resided AULAQI departed the D C area on 9 8 01 and returned from San Diego on 9 11 01 to National Airport at approximately 9 00 a m At approximately 11 50 a m AULAQI excused himself from the interviewers as he needed to make an urgent phone call At noon he returned and the interview continued AULAQI stated that as Imam he is responsible for conducting the five daily prayer calls He is also responsible for the Juma on Fridays lessons for religion non-formalized religious training and counseling for marital probl ems When questioned as to whether or not he would counsel someone on other stressful issues or problem situations he advised that he mainly conducted marital counseling because he does not have formal religious training All of his training for Imam has come from his own studies and research The lessons for religion are usually held on the weekends as that is the most convenient time for him AULAQI further stated that his role as Imam was not as strong as the role of a Catholic priest AULAQI advised that while in San Diego he d i d not remember a n y one specific seeking him out for counseling on any subject AULAQI further advised that he is not truly a counselor but more of a friend to the persons in his mosque This past Friday AULAQI focused his juma on the Fatwa by b6 involves the Condemnation of an Incident He thought this was for the healing to begin from the attacks on Tuesday This Fatwa can b7C also be found on- line at Islam on Line He stressed during the juma that the healing should begin and that people should be vigilant in reporting to law enforcement any acts of violence or hate crimes against them AULAQI advised that there was another on line web site called CAIR net Council of American Islamic Relations which could be used to report hate crimes AULAQI stated that NIHAD AWAD is the president of CAIR I which ' -1 When questioned as to whether or not AULAQI lectured on the Jihad or his feelings regarding the Jihad AUQALI stated I would like not to comment on that However he further stated that he absolutely strongly condemns the attacks Awlaki-91 FD-302a Rev I0-6-95 265D-NY-280350-302 Continuation of FD-302 of 9 15 01 Page - 3 --- AULAQI would not show the SAs his passport and advised that he did not feel like showing it to the SAs at this time because it was upstairs AULAQI is married with three small children He drives a 1999 Dodge Caravan license plate YGM 1238 which is registered to him but with an address of 3159 Row Street Falls Church Virginia which is the address of the DAL HIJRA Mosque The interview was terminated at approximate ly 12 25 p m Awlaki-92