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To: syriacus
It's nice to see that the "my child could never do something like this" excuse crosses cultural boundaries. These parents are simply in denial...
6 posted on 11/05/2001 7:31:51 AM PST by LaBradford22
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To: LaBradford22
It's nice to see that the "my child could never do something like this" excuse crosses cultural boundaries. These parents are simply in denial...

Nice to know the men just got married this year. From the article below:Both visited India this year and got married in March. They returned to New Jersey in July after spending nearly eight months in their hometown, their relatives said.
Is marriage part of the pre-terrorist ritual--pass on your terrorist genes in a child before you die?

Police grill families of suspects

HYDERABAD: Police began questioning on Tuesday the families and neighbours of two Indians who have been detained by the FBI in New York regarding last week's terrorist attacks.

Police and intelligence officers checked the background of Mohammed Jaweed Azmat, 47, and Ayub Ali Khan, 51, by interviewing residents of a poor district in Hyderabad.

The two were removed from an Amtrak passenger train in Fort Worth, Texas last week after authorities said they found them with box-cutting knives, hair dye and $5,000 in cash.

US officials have said that terrorists used box-cutters in hijacking at least one of the four airplanes that crashed in the United States a week ago.

On the day of the terrorist attacks Azmat and Khan had been on a flight from New Jersey to Texas, but boarded the train when the flight was diverted to Missouri. The FBI detained them in Fort Worth and flew them to New York where they are being held as material witnesses in the investigation of the terrorist attacks.

The families recognised Azmat and Khan after their photos were shown by television networks. Azmat and Khan are friends who lived as neighbours in the Doodh Bowli district of Hyderabad.

"My son is a gentleman and a person devoted to his family ... How can he do such a thing?" said Mohammed Jahangir, Azmat's father.

The two had telephoned their families in Hyderabad two weeks ago and told them about their plans to move to Texas after losing their jobs in a New Jersey store, the relatives said.

"We haven't heard from them since then," said Jahangir.

Gul Mohammed Khan, a younger brother of Ayub Ali Khan, said the two had left for the United States nine years ago with Indian passports and valid U.S. work permits.

Both visited India this year and got married in March. They returned to New Jersey in July after spending nearly eight months in their hometown, their relatives said.

Azmat married a Pakistani citizen, Amina, who is pregnant, and living with her husband's family in Hyderabad, the family said.

Gul Mohammed Khan broke down as he recounted his brother's recent visit and then seeing his face on television in connection with the terrorist attacks. "It is the biggest shock of my life," he said.

8 posted on 11/05/2001 8:07:33 AM PST by syriacus
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