| Notes |
When Anwar enrolled at Colorado State University in 1990 to study engineering, he was hardly religious – he took out the prayer rug his mother kept putting into his suitcase – and certainly no terrorist. After college, he would become an imam, serving in three American mosques and expressing conventional views. He led Friday prayers in the U.S. Capitol, spoke at a Pentagon luncheon, and publicly and privately denounced the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Only after leaving the United States for the United Kingdom did he become steadily more radical, finally joining Al Qaeda in Yemen around 2007. That was 17 years after USAID had approved his scholarship application. |