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  • 'Bring it down' was about a car, students' lawyer says (Florida-Georgia "terrorist hoax")

    09/16/2002 1:30:17 AM PDT · by weegee · 206 replies · 284+ views
    CNN ^ | September 15, 2002 Posted: 8:49 PM EDT (0049 GMT) | no byline
    <p>MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A car, not a building, was what three Muslim medical students were talking about "bringing down" in a restaurant conversation that triggered the daylong closure of a Florida highway, lawyers for the students said Sunday.</p> <p>"Our conversation at Shoney's had nothing to do with terrorism or 9/11 or 9/13," said Kambiz Butt, one of the three students. "We were basically sitting down having a regular conversation about our trip, the experience we were about to face in Miami, we were talking about school and friends."</p>