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| Boxcutter and hair dye boyz are back home... |
| 2003-01-25 |
| An Indian man detained in the United States for 16 months after the 11 September attacks, has returned home. But Mohammed Azmath was arrested again by Indian police after his arrival in his home town of Hyderabad in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. He stands accused of giving false information on his passport application. He was later granted bail. This goober just can't win. Shoulda headed for Pakland... Mr Azmath and his co-suspect, Gul Mohammed Shah - also known as Ayub Ali Khan - were detained in Texas a day after the attacks in New York and Washington. US police said the two men were carrying knives and a large amount of cash. They had been on a flight that was grounded following the 11 September 11. Mr Azmath and Mr Shah, known as the "boxcutter detainees" because of the knives, were taken by the US intelligence agency, FBI for prolonged questioning. 16 months is pretty prolonged, I'll admit... Later they were cleared of any involvement in the 11 September attacks. During the questioning it was found that Mr Azmath had filed false information while applying for his passport in India. Mr Shah, the other detainee, returned home earlier this month. During the U.S. investigation, he was convicted of credit card fraud. On his return to India, Mr Shah said that he was kept in solitary confinement. He accused the US authorities of subjecting him to psychological torture during his detention. He was probably kept in solitary as much for his own protection as to make him feel bad. Even the jailbirds were ready to thump people like him in September 2001. Lucky for him, he turned out to be just another crook, so he could be safely tossed. Don't come back, Ali Khan. Don't come back, Mohammed Azmath. Go ruin somebody else's country. |
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| Two arrested in Jersey City |
| 2001-09-15 |
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) -- The FBI on Saturday searched the Jersey City apartment of two men who were detained in Texas carrying thousands of dollars in cash and box-cutter knives, and took several others into custody as the investigation into the terrorist attacks that crashed four planes and collapsed the World Trade Center picked up speed. An Army helicopter circled overhead as agents removed several cardboard boxes of evidence from the apartment of Ayub Ali Khan, 51, and Mohammed Jaweed Azmath, 47, and from another apartment next door, neighbors said. |
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| Two men with box cutters, hair dye arrested |
| 2001-09-15 |
IRVING, Tex., Sept. 14 Two men with box cutters, hair dye and a large amount of cash who were seized by federal authorities on an Amtrak train in Fort Worth on Wednesday remained in custody today for immigration violations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said. The men are Ayub Ali Khan, 51, and Mohammed Jaweed Azmath, 47, the F.B.I. said. The bureau would not identify their country of origin. "Certainly the totality of the circumstances involved leads us to want to know why they were traveling, and why they carried those items," said Lori Bailey, a spokeswoman for the Dallas office of the F.B.I. "They are out of status with regard to their immigration papers and have no right to be in the United Sates." Both men were carrying identification documents, but Ms. Bailey would not say whether the documents were false, how much cash the men carried or whether they had been connected to terrorist groups or the attacks in New York and Washington. "All information on anything connected to this has to come out of the White House," she said. "That's the direction we've received." The authorities confirmed that the two men were flying to San Antonio from Newark when their plane made a stopover in St. Louis on Tuesday. After federal officials halted air traffic in response to Tuesday's hijackings, the men continued by train toward San Antonio until they were taken into custody during a routine drug patrol, officials said. |
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| Egyptian sez Binny's bought anthrax spores |
| 2001-10-24 |
A follower of Osama bin Laden has claimed that the suspected terror mastermind bought anthrax spores and other deadly bacteria, it emerged today. The claim came from Ahmad Ibrahim al-Najjar, a convicted follower of bin Laden, who told authorities in Egypt that the al-Qaeda chief openly bought the bacteria from laboratories in eastern Europe and Asia. Al-Najjar was convicted in Egypt of trying to overthrow the countryâs government in favour of a fundamentalist Islamic regime and jailed for life last year. He has become an informer on the activities of al-Qaeda and the New York Post reported that translations of his evidence to Egyptian authorities showed the germ warfare purchases. Al-Najjar claimed that bin Laden was quite open in his operations, attempting to buy germ warfare agents including anthrax, e-coli and salmonella. His group ordered the bacteria to be sent by mail, and as long as it paid £5,000 up front to the biological plants selling the agents, the identities of the purchasers were not checked. So-called factories in the Czech Republic and elsewhere in eastern Europe, were used to provide e-coli and salmonella, while a facility in south-east Asia sold the group anthrax. It was supplied to the Indonesia-based Islamic Moro Front, which is linked to bin Laden and also to Abu Sayaf, the terrorist group trying to establish a breakaway fundamentalist Muslim regime in the Philippines. Bin Ladenâs agents paid just £2,585 plus shipping costs for the anthrax spores, al-Najjar told Egyptian intelligence. The claims came after mounting suspicion that bin Laden was connected to the anthrax attacks which have killed three people and infected at least ten more in America. However, No link has been established between the September 11 and anthrax attacks, Robert Mueller, the FBI Director said today. The claim from al-Najjar coincided with a report that American investigators have found magazines relating to germ warfare at the home of two men arrested soon after the suicide hijackings. Mohammed Jaweed Azmath and Ayub Ali Khan, were arrested on September 12 after being found on a train in Texas with boxcutters, thousands of dollars in cash and black hair dye. The New York Times reported that the FBI is checking documents found in their apartment for traces of anthrax after discovering two magazines with cover stories about poison gas and biological weapons. Neither man is cooperating with investigators. |
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| Two suspects arrested in Texas |
| 2001-10-26 |
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that Mohammed Jaweed Azmath and Ayub Ali Khan, who were arrested Sept. 12 on an Amtrak train in Texas, had shaved their body hair, as the previous day's hijackers had been instructed to do in a letter found in Mohammed Atta's luggage. The men, who were also carrying box cutters and thousands of dollars in cash, are still being held as material witnesses. |
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