>From LA Times:
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-000077882sep29.story RESPONSE TO TERROR Foreign Students Scrutinized By JONATHAN PETERSON and REBECCA TROUNSON, TIMES STAFF WRITERS WASHINGTON -- A controversial plan to more closely monitor foreign students in the United States is slowly advancing inside the Immigration and Naturalization Service, with congressional opposition largely collapsing in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. ,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-093001list.story FBI Relies on 'The List' in Nationwide Manhunt Investigation: Roster of more than 700 mostly Arabic names is an imprecise tool and raises civil rights concerns. By ROBERT J. LOPEZ, GREG KRIKORIAN and DAVID COLKER, Times Staff Writers "The List," containing a slew of Arabic-sounding names, has been teletyped to thousands of law enforcement agencies across the country. ... >From OC Register: http://www.ocregister.com/sitearchives/2001/9/27/news/27studentvisascci7.shtml Feinstein to seek screening, tracking of foreign students September 27, 2001 Register news services WASHINGTON -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., wants to close U.S. borders to new foreign students for six months to give immigration authorities time to put in place initial background checks and a tracking system once students are in this country. .... ............................................................................................ http://www.ocregister.com/sitearchives/2001/9/27/news/fbi00927cci9.shtml Records link student, suspects September 27, 2001 By ALDRIN BROWN and BARBARA KINGSLEY The Orange County Register A Yemeni college student being held as a material witness in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks shared a San Diego County home with two men suspected of hijacking the airliner that crashed into the Pentagon, property records show. Ramez Noaman, 24, was arrested in Rowland Heights on Sept. 19, a day after FBI agents searched for him at his cousins' Irvine apartment. On Tuesday, officials at the Anaheim-based Council for American-Islamic Relations mistakenly said that Noaman had been arrested in Irvine. ... Noaman's four cousins, also Yemeni students living in Irvine, were detained and questioned for 15 hours Friday at the FBI's Santa Ana headquarters before being released. One of the Irvine men, Akram Mokred, also has been ordered to appear in New York on Monday to talk to federal authorities about his cousin. Noaman was flown to New York on Tuesday, Mokred said. According to property records, Noaman lived in a Lemon Grove home with Khalid Al-Midhar and Nawaf Alhamzi, who federal authorities suspect were among the hijackers of American Airlines flight 77. Both men were believed killed in the crash. The Mount Vernon Street home is owned by Abdussattar Shaikh, a retired San Diego State University professor active in San Diego's Islamic community. ... >From San Diego Union-Tribune http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/terror/20010921-9999_1n21visas.html AMERICA'S WAR ON TERROR Terrorists may have exploited student visas By David Washburn and David Hasemyer UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS September 21, 2001 For more than six years in the 1990s, people from the Middle East came to San Diego County on bogus student visas, breaching an immigration system that has few safeguards to stop such abuse. Through an underground network led by a Rancho Santa Fe man, nearly 100 Middle Easterners paid local community college teachers and administrators for counterfeit admission papers and grades, which allowed them to get student visas. ... http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/fri/news/news_1n28visas.html Foreign students would tighten, but not suspend, visa program ASSOCIATED PRESS September 28, 2001 BERKELEY -- Overseas students on California college campuses say they support tightening up the visa process but think a proposed six-month moratorium goes too far. .......................................................................................... From Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14246-2001Sep23.html Investigation Has San Diego on Edge Three Hijackers Drew Little Notice in City of Many Transients By William Booth and Rene Sanchez Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, September 24, 2001; Page A07 SAN DIEGO, Sept. 23 -- In many ways, this sunny city was a perfect base for a terrorist cell. A large and transient population, including tourists and foreign students. Thousands of apartments. Numerous flight schools. And a short drive away, an international border with Mexico. San Diego is now jittery as federal agents investigate the activities of three men who lived here for at least part of last year, and who hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 and crashed it into the Pentagon. In a survey released today by the San Diego Union-Tribune, nearly 84 percent of 402 residents polled Thursday evening said they thought San Diego County could be a likely terrorist target. 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