Sheikh Anwar N. Aulaqi, considered an expert on martyrdom and the rewards of Paradise, privately ministered to some of the 9/11 hijackers who attacked the Pentagon. They followed him from San Diego to Falls Church, Virginia, near Washington, where he led prayers at Saudi-controlled Dar al-Hijrah mosque, whose board is packed with members of the secret Muslim Brotherhood.

At the time of the 9/11 attacks, Aulaqi also served as the official Muslim chaplain to the throngs of young Muslim men enrolled at George Washington University just a few blocks from the White House. He himself was enrolled at the university as a doctoral candidate.

He also counseled young Muslims as an imam in Fort Collins, Colorado, where he studied engineering at Colorado State University, and lived on the edge of campus in the early 1990s.

Aulaqi has bounced around a lot since then, coming into contact with untold numbers of hijacker wannabes and other willing martyrs for jihad. Here are all the known residences listed for Aulaqi in the government¹s dossier on him:

500 W. Prospect, Apt. 23L
Fort Collins, Colorado

1718 Heritage Circle, Apt. C72
Fort Collins, Colorado

905 W. Laurel Street, Apt. 313
Fort Collins, Colorado

1530 S. York Street
Denver, Colorado

1930 S. York Street, Apt. 305
Denver, Colorado

7136 Saranac Street
San Diego, California

7181 Saranac Street
San Diego, California

501 Roosevelt Boulevard, Apt. A303
Falls Church, Virginia

3159 Row Street
Falls Church, Virginia

3331 Kaywood Drive
Falls Church, Virginia

Aulaqi lived at this last address with a 28-year-old man by the name of Ridwan I. Hurreh, government records show. The residence, a townhouse, is owned by Marian H. Abdulle and Ismael M. Hurreh.

Aulaqi, who claimed not to know hijacker and second-emir Nawaf al-Hazmi by name (even though witnesses say he met privately with him in San Diego) and denied having any contact with him in Virginia, has made other claims that do not hold up under closer scrutiny, investigators say.

For example, he appears to be a U.S. citizen born in Las Cruces, New Mexico. It is even the first highlight listed in his biographical sketches posted on Islamic websites.

However, federal law enforcement records I've obtained have him born in Aden, Yemen, on April 21, 1971, and indicate he first came to the U.S. (purportedly as a Yemeni citizen) on a J-1 research-scholar visa on June 5, 1990. Investigators say this is the information Aulaqi offered on applications for a U.S. visa and a State Department tuition grant offered only to foreign nationals. Not long after arriving in the U.S., his apparent real birthplace, Aulaqi used the same erroneous information in applying for a Social Security number -- 521-77-7121.

Records show Aulaqi was close to an ally of blind Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman. He has still-other ties to Islamic extremists. For instance, an individual who attempted to post bond for alleged 20th hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui¹s roommate was closely associated with a friend of Aulaqi in San Diego. Abdulqaadir Menepta, a member of the dangerous Muslim Brotherhood who recruited for a radical Palestinian group, had been the subject of a full-field FBI international terrorism investigation. He recently served time on weapons charges.

And Aulaqi has had run-ins with local police, as well. He had been a criminal defendant in two separate cases tried in San Diego Municipal Court. In one, he pleaded no contest to charges of soliciting prostitution, and was fined and put on probation.

Then there are the Operation Green Quest and other investigations targeting Aulaqi that have not been publicly disclosed ...

Click on DOCUMENTS to view the classified U.S. government reports detailing post-9/11 U.S. Customs and Joint Terrorism Task Force investigations of Aulaqi involving terrorism financing. The reports include the case file numbers.