Arkeh,Walid

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Walid Arkeh, a Jordanian citizen, claimed in a January 2002 interview with the Orlando Sentinel, that he became friendly in a British prison "with three alleged al Qaeda militants" accused of plotting the 1998 bombings at two American embassies in Africa. Arkeh was convicted in Florida in 2000 of dealing in stolen goods and slapping his daughter. To escape deportation, he fled to England, where he was picked up and held in prison for 10 months before being sent back to the United States in July, the Sentinel reported. In August, he got word to the FBI that he had information on a planned terror attack. But when two FBI agents showed up at the Seminole County jail to interview him Aug. 21, 2001 he said he would tell what he knew only if he was freed from prison, given asylum in the United States and offered the kind of security granted by the witness-protection program. Arkeh said one of the agents told him, "Is that all you have?" The FBI never returned. (-> early warnings)