[nukkad] FBI quizzing 2 Indians

[Harshal Chhaya <>]

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Looks like a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time with
the wrong stuff. Being illegally in the US won't help either. 




Two Indians being quizzed by FBI 
 
TIMES NEWS NETWORK  
 
HYDERABAD: "My son can never do such a thing," Mohammed Jahangir, father 
of Mohammed Jaweed Azmath, said late on Monday night. The family is 
shattered over the news of Azmath's arrest as one of the suspects in 
Tuesday's terrorist attacks in the US. It was only after seeing Azmath's 
picture on TV networks as one of the two arrested suspects in the attacks 
that the gravity of the situation dawned on them.

Jahangir and the rest of the family, including Azmath's wife, who is 
expecting a baby, confirmed Azmath's identity as one of the two arrested 
men after being shown their photographs.

Jahangir told The Times of India that Azmath, as well as Ayub Ali Khan, 
both friends, working in a store in New Jersey, were moving out of New 
Jersey to Texas after having lost their jobs.

The shattered father said Azmath and Khan were promised all help by a 
man called Sethi from Mumbai to set up a fruit store in Texas and that 
was the reason why the duo was on their way to Texas.

Jahangir said the duo was in the US for the last nine years. "This nice 
house is thanks to the hardwork my son has put in the US. He can never 
be part of any such terrorist attack," Jahangir said.

Meanwhile, Ayub Ali Khan's family also confirmed that he was one of 
the two men detained in the US. They said that Khan and Azmath had come 
back from the US to Hyderabad in January and left in July back to the US.

The two had first gone to the US as illegal immigrants nine years ago. 
Asked how they managed to come back to India without valid papers, Ayub's 
family said, "this could only be answered by Immigration officials."

They had no knowledge about the box cutters or knives that the duo was 
alleged to have been carrying when arrested.

Ayub, his family said, a trained Chartered Accountant, worked as a clerk 
in Sahara here in Hyderabad. The duo called their families here a week 
before they moved from New Jersey to Texas. 

The two men were detained on Sunday in connection with the 
devastating terrorist strikes. Khan, 51, and Azmath, 47, were taken 
into custody at a railway station in Fort Worth in Texas and flown to 
New York for questioning. 

They were in custody "in the strongest possibility we have yet" in the 
nationwide FBI probe, Texas law enforcement authorities said. 

The two men had $5,000 to $10,000 in cash and box cutters of the type 
used by the 19 terrorists who commandeered the hijacked jets that they 
smashed against the World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11. 

US authorities said Khan and Azmath had flown Tuesday from Newark, New 
Jersey, on a flight bound for San Antonio, Texas but was diverted and 
forced to land in St Louis after the attacks in New York and Washington. 
 




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