MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

Event: Interview of Andrea Rae Louch

Date of Interview: June 22, 2004

Special Access Issues: None

Prepared by: Marco A. Cordero

Team Number: 1A
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Location: Lemon Grove, California

Participants - Commission: Marco A. Cordero.andQuinn John T~.

Participants - Non-Commission: Andrea Rae Louch

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On June 22, 2D04·, commission staffers Marco A. Cordero!~d Quinn Johrt Tamm
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interviewed Andrea Rae Louch, previously known as Andrea Ra~ Robinson, born"[:J
I [ather residence] . Icalifornia. After being
advised of the identity of the interviewing agents and purpose of the interview, Louch
provided the following information:

Louch was employed as a sales clerk at La Mesa Texaco gas station located at
4925 Spring Street between August 1998 and April 2000. She quit working there
because she found employment somewhere else. During her employment at La Mesa
Texaco, she worked with Mohdar Abdullah, Omar Bakarbashat, Yajaira Ruiz, Iyed
Khreiwesh, Joann Valencia and briefly saw Nawaf AI-Hazmi. Louch advised that she
did not associate much with Mohdar Abdullah and Omar Bakarbashat because they all
worked different shifts. Louch advised that an individual identified as Ahmed Last Name
Unknown (LNU) hung out with Nawaf Al-Hazmi. Lauch did not work together with
Yajaira Ruiz or Joann Valencia but did talk to them more often.

Louch advised Yajaira Ruiz was avery outgoing and social individual who
enjoyed interacting with people when she was first hired. However, Ruiz began to
change when she was introduced to Islam by Iyed Khreiwesh. Louch advised that Ruiz
became more reticent, much less social and very reserved. Lauch advised Ruiz began to
spend more time with Khreiwesh, so much so that people began to suspect that they were
sharing more than a friendship. Soon after her conversion, Ruiz was assigned to work in
the back (presumed the office) and away from the customers. Louch did not know why
Ruiz was reassigned. Louch advised that she did riot know whether Ruiz and Khreiwesh
had ever been married.
 Lauch described Khreiwesh as a nice Palestinian with three daughters who was
known to be a womanizer. Khreiwesh was often seen praying at the store, in the store
room, with Mohdar Abdullah, Omar Bakarbashat and Ahmed LNU, same individual who
hung out with Nawaf Al-Hazmi, Louch advised that Khreiwesh had once told her that he
could not return to Palestine because someone was looking for him, someone intent on
killing him.

Lauch advised that Mohdar Abdullah was a student when she first met him. She
advised that he was very active at the Mosque located at "805 and Balboa". Mohdar
often told Louch that he wanted to get married. Lauch advised that Mohdar was known
to exaggerate and to stretch the truth. She described Mohdar as very anti semitic ..

Lauch advised that Omar Bakarbashat was also a nice guy who worked at the
store. She remembers Bakarbashat because he actively pursued another co-worker,
identified as Joann Valencia, as a spouse. Lauch advised that Valencia confided in her
during the time Bakarbashat was pursuing Valencia.' Louch stated that Valencia felt
uncomfortable with Bakarbashat's interest in her. Lauch remembers Valencia receiving a
card from Bakarbashat in which he proposed marriage to Valencia.

Lauch advised that most Muslim males would speak English when they were
around her, but as soon as other Muslim males showed up, they would begin to speak
Arabic and walk into the store room.

Lauch advised that she was not employed at the Texaco at the time of the attacks
but had heard and known that some of the individuals employed at the store may have
known or associated with Nawaf Al-Hazmi. Following that reporting, she decided to
stop by to check on her former co-workers. When she arrived, she advised that the store
had been vandalized, primarily with graffiti, and she noticed that Mohdar Abdullah and
Omar Bakarbashat were 'very quite, both refusing to talk to her when she visited.

Louch did not know whether Mohdar Abdullah traveled to Los Angeles to pick up
Nawaf Al-Hazmi and Khalid AI-Midhar upon their (AI-Hazmi and AI-Midhar) arrival to
the U.S.