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FBI searches home vacated shortly before 9/11 attacks
GREENACRES, Florida (CNN) -- A home the FBI searched Tuesday was vacated shortly before the September 11 attacks, said sources who added that the operation is part of a terrorism investigation. The FBI has not explained what it is looking for at the home in a gated community in Greenacres. The search warrant was sealed. Neighbors said the last residents were a family of six. The man told people he was an engineer, neighbors said. The last listed resident of the house was a man by the name of Muhamad al-Masari. Several neighbors told CNN they called the FBI shortly after the September 11 attacks because they were concerned about the family's "sudden" departure. Family members said they were headed home to Saudi Arabia, one neighbor said. A law enforcement source told CNN there is "no record of any calls to the FBI about the family." But Greenacres City Manager Wadie Attalah said the FBI told him they were "following up on a tip they received after September 11." Sources said that when agents entered the home Tuesday, they found food on the table and seized some items, including a computer. But another law enforcement source said the search actually began last week, after government officials got a call from the homeowners association at the community expressing concern that the home was unkempt and suspicious. The source said what the FBI found "indicated someone left in a hurry." The search has not turned up any useful information yet, that source said. The head of Miami's FBI Field Division, Hector Pesquera, spent part of the day Tuesday at the home. His appearance is not routine at searches, but a law enforcement source said he was there because of the media attention, rather than because of the nature of the investigation itself.
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