...amists in the ethnic conflicts that had been boiling there even before the Central Asian departments of the Soviet Union became indepen- dent states. ... ...l asylum and was admitted. It quickly became clear that Y ousef had been a central player in the attack. He had fled to Pakistan immediately after the... ...bouhalima, and Ayyad led the FBI to the Farouq mosque in Brooklyn, where a central figure was Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, an extremist Sunni Muslim cler... ...gents. It lacked sufficient translators proficient in Arabic and other key languages, resulting in a significant backlog of untranslated intercepts. 2... ...y few American colleges or universities offered programs in Middle Eastern languages or Islamic studies.The total number of undergraduate degrees gran... ...nt. 65 In his interactions with other students,Atta voiced virulently anti-Semitic and anti-American opinions, ranging from condemnations of what he d... ... translation unit for domestic intelligence intercepts in Arabic and other languages, did not. 60 Pressing Pakistan While this process moved along, di...