He used a different Saudi passport (issued 13 days earlier) than the one he had used to enter the United States in January 2000. He was on no watch list regarding terrorism or entry into the United States. Thai intelligence agencies wouldn't be able to offer information that the two boarded a flight to the United States for more than a year. They meet up with Saudi government operatives, who help them settle in San Diego. They became a fixture of the Arab community in San Diego, one of their friends even evidently an FBI informant.