Posted on 12/06/2001 3:31:03 PM PST by t-shirt
INS detainee anthrax suspect
TRACY KENNEDY, Register Citizen Staff December 06, 2001
HARTFORD - A Hartford judge set bail Wednesday for one of four local men detained by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service since Nov. 25 for their suspected involvement in the deadly national anthrax mailings. At Immigration Court, Judge Michael W. Straus ordered Mohammed I. Khan, 46, of Torrington, to pay $12,000 bail during a hearing regarding his application for asylum. Kahn reportedly filed the application after arriving in this country from Pakistan in 1993. According to an INS representative, he had not posted the bail by late afternoon Wednesday.
According to published reports, Khan and three other men, Najmul Hasan, 33, of Winsted, Ifran Ahmed, 36, and Ayazuddin Sheerazi, 32, both of Torrington, were arrested by local police and FBI agents after a tip from Torrington resident Robert Janco.
Janco told authorities and "America's Most Wanted," a nationally syndicated television show, that he believed Kahn and Hasan were involved in the recent anthrax scares. According to published reports, Janco told police he overheard the men talking on Sept. 8 about delivering letters to a Vietnamese immigrant in New York City named "Kathy." When Janco heard of the death of 61-year-old Kathy Nguyen on Oct. 31, he reportedly contacted the police.
According to source at the immigration court, charging documents have not been filed against Kahn or the other men and they are solely being detained on immigration matters.
Gary Cote, acting deputy district director of INS in Boston, would not comment on the investigation or confirm the men were being detained by the immigration agency. "I cannot discuss that or what action is being taken if any action is being taken concerning these men," he said Wednesday. Cote explained his office could not discuss any actions concerning immigrants that may be involved in national terrorist activities pursuant to a directive received from the Attorney General.
However, according to prison records checked on Wednesday, Khan, Ahmed and Hasan are currently incarcerated in Osborn Correctional Institution in Somers, and Sheerazi is being held at Hartford Correctional Center in Hartford.
Court dates have not yet been set for Ahmed and Hasan, and Sheerazi is scheduled to appear at a hearing on Wednesday in the immigration court in Hartford concerning his application to extend his visa.
During Kahn's hearing on Wednesday, Assistant District Council Attorney John Marley indicated he would oppose Kahn's application for asylum based on Kahn's alleged failure to report his residence in Torrington.
Kahn, a native of Pakistan, said that while he works in Torrington, he still maintains his residence on Neptune Street in Brooklyn, N.Y., as indicated on his immigration documents.
Hmmm, letters delivered to Nguyen on or just before Sept. 8th. Wasn't that also the date that the letter was sent to the doctor in Nairobi from Atlanta?
I was looking today at the excerpts from the al Qaeda jihad manual that the DOJ has now put on its Web site. The manual recommends forwarding a letter through an intermediary.
?? And what are the: employment, school, and 'love' Histories of these 'INS-detainees'??
Brooklyn leadership again!?
:-(
Are these Arab guys all here illegally or what? Hope they get deported if they aren't the anthrax people.
Or, worse, someone within the FBI or the Justice Department was putting out nonsense to the media for the purpose of misleading potential witnesses.
Several weeks ago I proposed that an AlQaeda operative was present inside the FBI.
I suspect she's been discovered! That's why this is coming out now - and that's why that fellow needs asylum - not that he's not involved - it's that he blew the whistle on his control, a mole within the government.
your proposal hasn't been proven yet, altho' it is interesting, and certainly plausible.
The fact is single-piece rate letter mail does not all come in through "normal" collection methods. Some of it comes directly from companies entering a bulk mailing - an extra tray of corporate FCM commonly accompanies such mailings. There are other ways. Unfortunately for a couple of dead people, the FBI didn't know that and refused to listen when told.
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Not me...I've been saying that all along!!!!! It's all a vast left wing conspiracy, they couldn't understand why only Demonrats were getting the anthrax....it must be right wing extremists, whoelse would want to hurt those innocent little Demonrats?
Maybe, because they have the biggest mouths in the USA!
Oh no! I think I married that guy.
Someone with more understanding of Romany might let us know what "Jan" means since "co" is merely the suffix for the diminutive form.
A top Iraqi military scientist who defected to the U.S. in 1994 said late Monday that he's absolutely certain his former boss Saddam Hussein is behind the wave of anthrax attacks that have swept the U.S. in recent weeks.
"This is Iraq," said Dr. Khidhir Hamza, in an interview on CNBC's "Rivera Live." "This is Iraq's work."
"Nobody (else) has the expertise outside the U.S. and outside the major powers who work on germ warfare," Hamza told "Rivera Live." "Nobody has the expertise and has any motive to attack the U.S. except Saddam to do this. This is Iraq. This is Saddam."
The Iraqi weapons expert told CNBC that his homeland had developed the capability to weaponize anthrax even before he defected to the U.S. 7 years ago and continues to maintain that capability.
"I have absolutely no doubt," he said. "Iraq worked actually even before the Gulf War on perfecting the process of getting anthrax in the particle size needed in powder form to disseminate the way it is being disseminated now."
I also recently saw Hamza on CNN saying much the same thing with one important addition, one that I've posted on several times. The anthrax strain also points to Iraq. According to Hamza it was the Ames strain which Iraq had weaponized.
There is a lot of BS going around that this might be from the former U.S. military stockpile, held secretly for 35 years by some right-wing nut who used to work in the program or had access to the goods. There were even reports floating around this week that the current anthrax was "nearly indistinguishable" from what the U.S. weaponized.
Nice try, but the U.S. weaponized the Vollum IB strain and not the Ames strain.
Then there are the "theories" that the right-wing nut purchased some weapons grade anthrax from the Russian mafia. Again, the strain isn't right. From all I've read the Russians weaponized much more virulent strains than Vollum IB or Ames.
I seem to recall there were also reports of some Pakis being arrested in New Jersey and that hazmat teams took a lot of stuff out of their apartment in plastic bags.
Hopefully we will learn more once the Afghan phase of the war is finished.
Which had no anthrax, therby making it irrelevant.
Hate to break up the joy-fest, but one big problem is incubation time. If Nguyen was being used as some sort of paid mule to go to Trenton to mail the letters, that is an VERY long inhalation anthrax incubation time. A not IMPOSSIBLE incubation time (one of the cases in Russia from the Sverdlovsk release didn't occur for 46 days) but considering that:
1) Nguyen is an old woman
2)I can't conceive that she was told what was in them or had taken any biohazard precautions, and presumably physically handled them
3) Probably had 1,000 times the exposure of the DC postal workers who died, if she did handle them
There's a very high likelyhood none of this checks out, and Nguyen was exposed from a cross-contamination at a much later date. So don't count your chickens before they hatch. The extremely low bail is one warning sign, as noted. And there's probably a good reason no national media outlet has mentioned it.
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