I was at ABQ that morning, having arrived at the airport just when the announcement of no flights was made.
There was a TV van out front and three Albuquerque police officers, and maybe 100 people around.
No attempt was made to secure the airport thereafter for the purpose of keeping on the ground there, any teams of terrorists.
No police checkpoint, nor even one patrol car, at the exit had been established to check peoples' faces --- the news media van would have been a great asset for filming all departing parties.
Since just before 911 when the site was getting pelted with pro-pali, pro Iraqi wackos I've been keeping a one-person links database on certain terrorists and isolated incidents which has since become very bulky. Most of the threads linked have additional links in them worth reading too. If you type in the last name of certain terrorists on FR's search box (try to spell the names different ways, like alarian, or al arian), you will get more useful links. If you can run onto a more recent page which has keywords on it you can find additional relevent articles, too, but it isn't much use for older material. There is also a 'wayback machine' web site which stores old internet articles and does contain archived FR threads.
More on the St. Louis to Texas folks who were detained:
DIASPORA
FBI tests documents of 2 detained Indians for anthrax
PTI • New York • October 26 • 8:30 PM IST
FBI sleuths are testing documents seized from the apartment of two Indians, detained in connection with the US terror attacks, for anthrax after old issues of magazines carrying stories on biological weapons and gas attack were found in their rooms.
Ayub Khan and Mohammad Jaweed Azmath, both from Hyderabad, were earlier pulled off a train near Dallas and detained as they were found carrying box cutters similar to those used by the hijackers who destroyed the World Trade Center and part of the Pentagon building on September 11.
The New York Times newspaper reported that the Hyderabadi duo had not explained their travels to the satisfaction of the investigators and FBI is trying to squeeze information from reluctant witnesses.
They said they were going to Texas to open a fruit stall.
On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that a search at their residence in Jersey City found old issues of Time magazine and US News and World Report with cover stories on biological weapons and a gas attack in Tokyo.
Their room-mate Aslam Pervez, who once worked in Trenton and lived near the postal facility from where some of the letters suspected to have carried anthrax powder were posted, has also been detained.
No links so far have been established against Khan and Azmath and the terrorist attacks, and investigators say they doubt if they were involved.
Police officials in India were quoted as saying that they were helping FBI look into how Azmath and Khan, who had little money when they moved to the United states in the mid 1990s, amassed enough to wire 54,000 dollars to their families in 1999.
Last week, Pervez was reportedly charged with lying to federal agents when they questioned him about more than 110,000 dollars in cheques and money orders that moved in and out of his bank account, mostly during 1995 and 1996.
Khan's and Azmath's movements on Sept. 11 and 12, and the box cutters they were carrying in a briefcase, are "certainly suspicious," one law enforcement official told the Times.
"But we can't link them to anything, any particular suspicious flights or destinations," he said.
He added that federal agents were in "kind of a standoff" with them.
But one person involved in the case was quoted as saying that Pervez testified before the Federal grand jury investigating the Sept. 11 attacks.
The Times said there may be an innocent explanation for their trip to Texas. The news stand on which the two worked was sold to another company in late August, leaving Khan, Azmath and Pervez without jobs.
The Times said that Khan's real name is Gul Mohammad Shah. They said he and Azmath had obtained Indian passports by giving false information about themselves, but they added that was not uncommon for people trying to leave the country.