On May 1, 2001, future 9/11 hijacker Nawaf al-Hazmi “reported an attempted street robbery to Fairfax, Virginia, police. He declined to press charges, and since his name was not yet on the Watch List, which would have alerted Customs and INS [Immigration and Naturalization Services] agents to his entry, he escaped scrutiny.”
– Peter Lance, 1000 Years For Revenge, Pages 403-404