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The FBI claimed, that Lotfi Raissi (Algeria) was Hani Hanjour's official flying teacher. Raissi was in fact Flight Trainer and flight instructor at the Sawyer School of Aviation. He was arrested in October 2001. However in February 2001, at his trial in United Kingdom, he was spoken unguilty. It was proved, that he never met Hanjour or tought him any single lesson. One of Raissi's lawyers, Hugo Keith, told the court: "The Americans now seem unwilling to withdraw from their initial position and accept on this occasion they pursued the wrong person."
Raissi's French wife, Sonia, said outside court: "From the beginning we said Lotfi has nothing to do with all this. Raissi's brother Mohamed added: "The FBI said to the world that he was a big terrorist and they have to now say to the world that this man is innocent. Source: cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/02/12/inv.lotfi.judge/index.html