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I'm glad you brought up this topic again. It got me to check into what has happened with our two friends, more recently.

2 detained men indicted for credit card fraud

NEW YORK : Two Indian-American men arrested from an Amtrak train in Texas a day after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. have pleaded innocent to credit card fraud charges. Syed Gul Mohammed Shah (earlier identified as Ayub Ali Khan) and Mohammed Azmath entered their pleas in two separate proceedings before federal judges in Manhattan on Jan. 16. Both had been indicted on the federal charges a day earlier.
The two were indicted on credit card fraud charges after unidentified investigators were quoted as saying in news reports recently that they did not believe Shah and Azmath were in any way linked to the terror attacks.
The two men had left Newark, New Jersey, for San Antonio by plane on the day of the attacks, but were stranded in St. Louis after all flights across the United States were grounded following the terrorist strikes.
The two then boarded an Amtrak train and were in Texas when they were apprehended by authorities, who found two box cutters, hair dye, a knife and thousands of dollars on them.
The two were held and interrogated closely because box cutters were believed to have been used as weapons by the terrorists who hijacked four aircraft on Sept. 11. Two were crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, one into the Pentagon in Washington, while the last plane, apparently headed for the White House, crashed in Pennsylvania, after passengers grappled with the terrorists.
Lawrence Feitell, the lawyer representing Shah, was quoted as saying by news reports that it was not unusual for his client to carry a box cutter as he worked at a newsstand, “where the blades are used to open boxes and bundles of newspapers.”
The lawyer also expressed the hope that Shah would be let off lightly as “the case was now on a different track, unrelated to terrorism.” Shah is accused of selling some 15 credits cards for about $1,000 apiece, which were used to withdraw cash or buy goods worth an estimated $414,000. According to his lawyer, Shah is likely to face up to two years in jail if convicted. Azmath, on the other hand, is likely to face less than six months in prison, if convicted. He has been accused of stealing less than $15,000.

I wonder if they have served (or are serving) time.