The Dallas Morning News reports that the two women — Kimberly "Asma" Al-Homsi (42) and Aisha Abdul-Rahman Hamad (50) — recently questioned by federal agents in Dallas, Texas for surveilling Love Field Airport are tied to convicted terrorist Wadi el Hage. El Hage was the personal secretary of Osama bin Laden in the 1990's. El Hage was involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the 1998 East Africa Embassy bombings. In 2001, el Hage was convicted on worldwide terrorism charges and remains in US federal prison serving a life sentence. 

Asma al-Hosmi, says she has known convicted Al-Qaeda terrorist Wadi el Hage for twenty years.

Ms. Al-Homsi said she still considers him [ie: el Hage] and his wife to be close friends. "I still support my brother and sister 110 percent," Ms. Al-Homsi of Arlington said in an interview Friday.

When asked about el Hage's terrorism conviction, Ms. Al-Homsi told the Dallas Morning News, "I don't know the circumstances" and declined to comment on the bombings. Here are the circumstances surrounding the two women's suspicious activity, also from The Dallas Morning News.  

Ms. Al-Homsi and her friend, Aisha Abdul-Rahman Hamad, 50, of Irving were the subject of a March 5 Dallas police intelligence bulletin after the two women, both dressed in camouflage pants under their Muslim robes and scarves, were seen conducting what appeared to be surveillance and acting suspiciously at Dallas Love Field.

Police officials have said they have no direct evidence that the women have ties to terrorism.

After news of the intelligence bulletin became public, Ms. Hamad said she was put on administrative leave Friday from her job at Outsource Partners International. The company did not return calls for comment. Ms. Hamad has never been arrested or charged with a crime.

Ms. Al-Homsi is on probation in connection with a December 2005 road rage incident involving a fake grenade she waved at a motorist.

In an earlier interview, Ms. Al-Homsi bragged about being a trained sniper but denied having any ties to terrorism and said she wasn't a "dangerous individual." She is an accountant who has dual Syrian-U.S. citizenship.

Ms. Al-Homsi also is believed to have explosives training, according to the intelligence bulletin.

On Feb. 25, the two women were spotted at Love Field wearing Muslim robes and camouflage pants and "acting suspiciously," the bulletin states. Surveillance video showed one of the women walking back and forth, apparently pacing off distances. When confronted, the women told officials they were looking for the Frontiers of Flight museum. They then left.

Two days later, Ms. Al-Homsi was spotted sitting on the hood of a car, looking through binoculars at the airplanes.

The women deny that they were scouting the airport and say they were watching planes for recreation. They deny any links to terrorist groups. They say the authorities have questioned them repeatedly because of their religious and political views.

Watching planes for recreation? According to WFAA-TV in Dallas Ms. Al-Homsi is on the no-fly list, which means that the US government considers her a threat to the aviation domain. She claims that she is a victim of racial profiling. "Religious, racial profiling is what it is called. Guilt by association," Ms. Al-Homsi said.

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