Posted on 08/11/2004 1:40:06 AM PDT by sarcasm
On the streets of Elmhurst, Queens, where trees rustled in the summer wind and kids played on the sidewalk yesterday, frightened neighbors of Kamran Akhtar were horrified to learn that terror cops in North Carolina want to know whether he was up to no good. "I can't believe he's been arrested," said a woman whose apartment window faces Akhtar's on Ketcham St. "This is so shattering. I have no words for this." The woman's husband described Akhtar - who used the alias Kamran Shaikh in the neighborhood and on his New York State license - as at times aloof, quiet and serious. "We just saw the children and I thought he was a family man," said the man. In addition to their infant son, the couple has two girls, ages 5 and 4. Another neighbor, Davi Parmatee, agreed: "He was a good man ... very religious." The only unusual thing, another neighbor said, was that Akhtar often had guests arrive very late at night - sometimes at 1 or 2 a.m. This was odd, he said, because the family appeared usually to turn in by 10 p.m. "We noticed that, sometimes, he had relatives coming in the late night," he told the Daily News. "We did not know why." The neighbor's wife said the terror investigation has left her unsettled. "The whole world is not a safe place right now. But when you hear that this is going on right next door, you feel that you can't trust," she said.
"The woman's husband described Akhtar - who used the alias Kamran Shaikh in the neighborhood and on his New York State license - as at times aloof, quiet and serious."
Uh... how many times have other terror mutts been described in precisely those terms?
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