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At the same time, investigators into the terrorist attacks have also been passing through Trenton, running down leads on Mohammad Aslam Pervez, who was indicted last week on charges he lied to the FBI about financial transactions.
Pervez, who lived in Trenton in the mid 1990s and worked at a newsstand at the train station, is a former Jersey City roommate of Ayub Ali Khan and Mohammed Jaweed Azmath, who were pulled off an Amtrak train in Texas on Sept. 12. They had a large sum of cash, hair dye and box-cutter knives like those believed to have been used in the Sept. 11 hijackings. Pervez is being held in New York without bail.
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According to the Times, while the FBI doubts that the men did actually play a role in the anthrax attacks, their roommate in Jersey City, Mohammad Aslam Pervez, who has also been detained in the terrorism investigation, once worked at a newsstand in Trenton, New Jersey and lived near the post office where the letters carrying anthrax were processed.
The first anthrax letter mailed from Trenton was postmarked September 18. This, however, was several days after the three men were already in custody.
Investigations have revealed that Khan, (34) and Azmath, in his early 30s, helped manage five news stands at a Newark train station, with Pervez, (37) a naturalized American citizen from Pakistan.
Pervez has been charged with lying to federal agents when they questioned him about more than $110,000 in checks and money orders. IANS