"Ayub Ali Khan and Mohammed Jaweed Azmath, both of whom are from India, have leased the small, one-bedroom apartment, No. 202, for the past six or seven years, said the landlord, who requested anonymity.
"However, public records show that, as recently as last June, both men listed their residence as an apartment at 1025 W. Hollywood Ave. on Chicago's North Side."
This pins it down -- it's an article from Sept. 17 associating both Ayub Ali Khan and Mohammed Jaweed Azmath with the 1025 W. Hollywood Ave., Chicago, address that Sabash Gurung lived in with his brother.
When Gurung was arrested and gave 1025 W. Hollywood Ave., Chicago, as his address, the news media discovered that there was an Ayub Khan at the same address. The FBI then suggested that this was a coincidence of names, that the Ayub Ali Khan who was arrested did not live at that address.
This cannot be correct, however, since that specific address is given for Ayub Ali Khan in this 9/17 article, from well before the early November arrest of Gurung.
My guess is that Khan and Azmath really did live in Jersey City (based on their landlord's statement that they'd been there for years), and that they maintained the Chicago apartment as a meeting place in Chicago for a cell composed of Indians/Nepalese/Pakistanis. (The Sept. 11 attacks were carried out primarily by Saudis, so it appears that al-Qaeda organizes its cells along the lines of nationality. This makes sense anyway for encouraging trust among the cell members and fostering communication among them.)
Good sleuthing! This seems to have been a common practice in these terror cells -- maintaining multiple apartments in multiple cities.
One suspect who is a DIRECT LINK between the hijack suspects Azmath and Khan, and the anthrax suspects recently rounded up in Trenton, is Mohammad Pervez, who shared an apartment not only with Azmath and Khan in Jersey City, but also shared at least two other apartments in Trenton/Hamilton that were raided for anthrax testing.
Pervez is a naturalized U.S. citizen, a native of Pakistan.
We have a winner.
That is great work.
Now, why the disinformation on the part of the Fibbers?
To have the enemy relax, or to buy time before action that would be demended once the info is out, or to have the US citizens deluded for some unknown benefit, other reasons?
The answer to this question is, IMO, critical.
Really appreciate it.
FBI Turns Down Hundreds of Ex-Agents Offering Help [but the CIA accepts help from former CIA agents] The info on the FBI turning down ex-agents is in this post. If it was security, I don't think the CIA would be accepting the help of their former agents.
Now, if we could only get the numbers of the two apartments in that apartment house in Chicago, or, rather, maybe of the one apartment, since I strongly suspect the apartment occupied by the two Nepalese brothers is precisely the same apartment that Khan and Azmath listed. I wonder if there's any way we can find out whether my suspicion is correct. Or maybe somebody on this board can give a reason why it has to be wrong.
By the way, I don't think there would be much in common, linguistically or culturally, between Muslims from Hyderabad and Nepalese, even if the Nepalese are also Muslim.