The gym owner said Jarrah worked out there and hired him as a personal trainer.
Rodriguez has a photograph of Jarrah as a gym member stored in his computer.
US-1 Gym owner Bert Rodriguez told CNN the FBI was asking questions about Ziad Samir Jarrah.
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German authorities said Saturday that Jarrah attended Hamburg's Harburg Technical University, as did two other suspected hijackers.
German authorities said Jarrah lived in Hamburg and Bochum, and searched two apartments in the two cities.
Members of Jarrah's family live near Lebanon's border with Syria and appear to be affluent and well educated.
He said Jarrah was in good shape, did his homework and was always prepared for the next lesson.
But Jarrah's name did not appear on any watch list, much less any list shared with local law enforcement.
Had Jarrah been detained, who knows how his fellow plotters would have reacted?
Husung said Jarrah studied aeronautical engineering at the school, and the school official pledged to help police with their investigation.
Rodriguez said Jarrah told him he was German and that he was in the United States studying business and flying.
The Justice Department has identified Jarrah as one of the suspected terrorists who commandeered United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania.
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Jarrah lived in an apartment in Hollywood not far from the gym.
Having missed Jarrah, the agencies became determined never again to miss anyone.
Rodriguez said he trained Jarrah how to handle attackers, by using rubber knives -- something Rodriguez commonly does in training law enforcement officers.
Jarrah was interested in how to fend off attackers using guns and knives, according to Rodriguez and another man who trained with Jarrah.
Jarrah lived in Germany until June 2000, when he went to the Miami area and took flight instruction at two schools in southern Florida.
In an interview with CNN, certain details of Jarrah's studies at the school were confirmed by Hans-Gerhardt Husung, president of the University of Applied Sciences.
Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley has said local law enforcement officials should have been told by the FBI that Jarrah was on a CIA watch list.
Registration showed that the red 2001 Mitsubishi Gallant Jarrah drove that night was owned by Garden State Car Rental at Newark, New Jersey, International Airport.
Ziad Samir Jarrah, one of the four men who seized the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania, was driving 95 mph in a 60 mph zone.
In contrast, Jewish Israelis are moving unimpeded into homes they claim to own in the middle of Sheikh Jarrah, an all-Palestinian district of East Jerusalem.
The simulation constructed from the plane's data recorder shows the 757 making a U-turn over Ohio, as Jarrah heads the plane southeast, toward Washington, D.
Jarrah's Virginia driver's license gave his address as 6601 Quicksilver Drive in Springfield, Virginia, and he can be heard verifying that address to Catalano on the tape.
Ziad Jarrah's family said he had spent some time in Afghanistan 18 months ago, but they are hoping the documentation released to CNN may help clear his name.
In the letter -- which was mistakenly addressed and returned to the United States, where authorities found it -- Jarrah told his girlfriend he had done his duty.
Rodriguez said one of his employees told him that Jarrah was interested in being able to train with a plastic gun but added that training did not happen.
Jarrah had recently been reported as missing by his girlfriend, who lives in the western German city of Bochum, after she had not spoken to him for some time.
Jarrah Hodge recently wrote a very thoughtful piece on the topic for HuffPost Women, questioning the reasons given for why more women are needed in political office.
Mohamad Atta, the suspected leader of the hijack gangs, Ziad Samir Jarrah and Marwan al-Shehhi, both of whom had flying lessons in Florida, had all spent time in Hamburg.
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