N0.155 P.? ' .*ECEIVEi_} Memorandum : {]rli 7.o 2$fi1 'f- ,fffr l1- E:;' Portlarrd,ORDstrict i.. r-linruc-iDU{ECToR From ; Subjcot : Section. Chief, Inter:aat,ional Counterterrorism Diwieion HESHAM MOHMMEDAAU ZU.BAIDAII ACTION MEMORANDUM. ion firu*gettt:"*eig"Tagp*u6* servi ce Terrorism Mr. Ronald ,J. snith District. DirecEor z. Dareta/tg/zoaL ( The fortrowd-ng -informa.tion is prowided Mohammed Abu zr:baidah, currenLly in th.e cuetody Immigration and Naturalization SeRrice. on Hesham or trre on o!/zz/zaot, Rosalee Abu-Z'.baidab, wife of the captioned subject',was interriewed by speeial Ag,ents from trre Fed.eral Bureau'-of-.Inrreetigation at her residenEe, Rosaree was very cooperat,ive and showed no hesitatsion ln answering any queetioas. Rel-evant..information provid.ed by Rosalee Is bllow, Rosal-ee adiii.sed that (as of the d.at,e of the int,errriew) Heeham and she had,;;'been ma.rried for thirteen (13) months Ilesham eaid he ie:,trg,.]eetini=n, but was born in saud.i .Arabia. At timee, Hesham.emqhafizes his saudi Arabian and. likes t.o -father f launc it. uis (palestinel ""-"-iry '"oe fti" moin-i is frorn rsrael . :,, ;-,.,, .,; , Roea:Lee etated that lleeham vrae the black sheep of his f,amily. 99cer, he Bgoke.hls fatherrs nose when he was 1E years old, beca.use hie r"th"T,.tad told him he could not leave home. from ilordan h e w a n t e d to b u i l d -H 'n e w l i fe her e in r he unir ed- stii"s ( u- s:i:Three months ag_o::(.qrfca Malr z0o1) , tiesrram told her he ref,t saudi Arabia because-he hi.d eomrnit,ted a'erime there- ;1r;; ;;;;#*JIia he- had gone to fail'eix(6) times in saudi arauia-ior p=o*iecuoue behawior with y"t39'girrs and for hitting someone. Rosaree noEed thaL in saudi Arabia-,if one is caught in an automobire with a woman other than'.'hiie,wife or reratlve, jaiJ.ed_ thatr p"r""n-i= Hesham was whipped bnce in Saudi Arabia. Heshamt.,e'father wanLs llesham tq come home because he doee not like Arnerc.ca. EURonsegueatry, he wilr not, send xesham -event.'s. lloruever, in reeponae to tqnPy in the nonnal -cgurse of Hesham's arreeE and his being in trouble, his i-tnui-sent -i.f"""nce him a lpt of money, perhips $1Q,006, (NorE, rrri" is . to the August arraFt' for aseiul.ting'nosaiee while she wag ewo months pregnant') Heehamts father also-sent him money when l{esham got in Aecord.ing. to Rosalee, Heeham left Saudi Arabia because ;t ocT. L9.?Ag7 6:37PN N0.165 P.3 f ' Ronald J. Smith Divlsion Dl-rector Immigration and Naturalization Re: llesham Mohammed Abu Zubaidah trouble 1999. in Chicago, where he lived from ,Jury l-99g until .F,gueug Roealee stated that Hesham would never telI her what, exactly had happened.. However, Lat,er in the int,erview, she advised that Hesham t.o1d her he had murdered someone in Chicago at the beheet of the mob. Eesham claimed t,hat while'in chicago, he went elubbl-ng and rnet some fLalian (NFI) . Hesham-said mafioei he was asked by the mafioei to kill Fomeone, which he did, and then they asked him to do something he did not want to do. Rosalee was a Little unclear on thiE point, and eaid Eesham did not give any real det,ails. This was the reason Hesham left Chicago and. came.:..to Portland nbe"t"i' i*j '*or. frigrl:.tened. of Ma.trer AJ--Khatib, one of Hesham'EUR'former drirployr5r'F than of anyone else, Her parente are also afraid of him. He has a lotr of money and has a house in ilordan. Rosal-ee was once in Maher's office at Fast rrip (a convenienee Etore) . aad -sat'r three or four pistols t,here-. Maher Eold her that her daughter would be taken avray from her if she got, Hesham in Erouble and that,'she would regret lt if she ealled the poJ-ice on Hedhitm'.. . . Rosa1ee...gtat,ed. that, Hesham and she have gotten in flghte before rn"6::[e"elapped her,, but the beating-on oalLz'/zooL was f,ar worse. He-lliunched her in addition tro slapping her, Rosal-ee stated t,I{aE if Heeham were mad enough, he would show up at the apartmengi'5v.611t19 she had a restrainlng order against h'im. Rosalde,?:'fiiend,, Christ.ina Hodge, eras looking aft,er Nautiea qrhile Rose;Lee:was at work on the iwing shift at precision (she began working rhere oa 6/a/0il1 Castparts Hesham was nor working at'the said Hesham Eried t,o rape her Fi*et.:,ghrisiina several times, but,:did-,not press ctr,arges because she wai afraid, Roealee would be upeei; Roialee told Chrietina that she would. not be upset and :to press charges. Rosalee conf ronted Hesharn about, this matter; Hdigod verL upset and began t,o yell, and they hadafigbt ._ ._ , If you have any furt}-er guestions, please contacE Jennifer -.....- eirher rNS Delailee ssa..Tohn corinofty, (zazj izr-zets, Ma i E n e r, ,(ze z) g e3- 2q05 at FgIHe. or ros a3c2