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Posted on 09/13/2001 8:20:07 PM PDT by Ms. AntiFeminazi

FORT WORTH — Federal authorities were holding two men Thursday who were removed from an Amtrak train here Wednesday night with box cutters in their possession, officials said.

The men also had about $5,000 in cash, according to a federal government official speaking on condition of anonymity.

They were detained on suspicion of entering the United States with fraudulent documents.

Luggage seized from the train had baggage claim tickets from a TWA flight that operated Tuesday, when hijackers wielding box cutters crashed commercial jets into New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

The luggage also had claim tickets for the Chicago-San Antonio train, which had stopped in St. Louis and Little Rock before making its scheduled stop in Fort Worth. Employees at the station said passengers were removed from the train while federal agents took the two men away.

The men were identified as Mohammad Jaweed Azmath, 47, and Ayub Ali Khan, 51.

Immigration agents questioned the pair for about five hours before they were taken to the Tarrant County Jail. They were held in isolation overnight and turned over to U.S. marshals Thursday.

County jailers said federal agents told them that the two men were taken into custody after the box cutters were discovered.

Neither man had addresses or relatives listed on their jail records, but both told officials they were born in India.

Their ages were listed as 47 and 51. According to Tarrant County Sheriff's Lt. Mac West, the men had little on their person by the time they reached the jail.

One carried an address book, an employment identification card and less than $2 in change.

The other had an "NYC" identification card and about $24, he said. By Thursday afternoon, no one had been arrested anywhere on charges related to Tuesday's massive terrorist strikes, federal officials said.

Several people have been detained on immigration matters.

"There's a large difference between arresting someone for a crime related to the overall crime and arresting somebody for having false identification or whatever," Justice Department spokeswoman Mindy Tucker said.

Staff writers Michelle Mittelstadt in Washington and Nancy Calaway and Debra Dennis in Fort Worth contributed to this report.

Copyright: 2001 by The Dallas Morning News. All rights reserved.

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