>From OC Register today: http://www.ocregister.com/news/detained00926cci4.shtml Yemeni student arrested in Irvine held by the U.S. Probe: A relative says the man may have known some of the hijackers who lived in San Diego.
September 26, 2001 By ALDRIN BROWN The Orange County Register A Yemeni college student was arrested in Irvine and is being held by federal authorities as a material witness in the investigation of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and on the Pentagon, relatives and local Islamic activists said Tuesday. Ramez Noaman, 24, was arrested by FBI agents Sept. 19 and was being held at an Immigration and Naturalization Service facility in Bakersfield, said his cousin, Akram Mokred, a Yemeni student living in Irvine. Noaman was expected to be sent to New York late Monday or Tuesday. "The FBI told me that my cousin knows some people from San Diego who were involved in the hijackings," said Mokred, 23. Three of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon, are believed to have lived in San Diego. Noaman most recently lived in Rowland Heights. ... Mokred also has been ordered to travel to New York on Monday to tell federal officials what he knows about his cousin, he said. ... Officials at the Council for American-Islamic Relations in Anaheim said they will monitor the case to assure that Noaman's civil liberties are protected. ... Daniel C. Tsang Host, Subversity, Fridays, 5-6 p.m. KUCI, 88.9 FM and Web-cast live via http://kuci.org Subversity: http://go.fast.to/sv; E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Daniel Tsang, KUCI, PO Box 4362, Irvine CA 92616 UCI Tel: (949) 824-4978; UCI Fax: (949) 824-2700 UCI Office: 380 Main Library Member, National Writers Union (http://www.nwu.org) AWARE: http://go.fast.to/aware WWW News Resource Page: http://go.fast.to/news Personal home page: http://go.fast.to/ar ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> FREE COLLEGE MONEY CLICK HERE to search 600,000 scholarships! http://us.click.yahoo.com/ujOgTC/4m7CAA/ySSFAA/7gSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN-ANNOUNCE: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network - Event Announcements --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=laamn-news> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn-announce> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- <http://home.labridge.com/~laamn> | LAAMN | <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
