When al-Qaida first attacked the World Trade Center in 1993 a Palestinian who was part of the conspiracy— had just months earlier been living right here in Houston.
Then in 2006, Federal agents arrested three men, Shiraz Qazi, Adnan Mirza, and Kobi Williams, in Houston. The case against the trio involved learning to use weapons here in order to join the Taliban overseas and fight U.S. soldiers.