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Three men detained on terrorist suspicions still under investigation Sheriff Hunter said he had new information on the trio before the medical students appeared on Larry King Live Tuesday, September 17, 2002By MIREIDY FERNANDEZ, mmfernandez@naplesnews.com Just hours before the three men who were detained in Collier County on suspicion of carrying explosives appeared on CNN on Monday night, Sheriff Don Hunter said he had new information on the trio, whose alleged joking comments about a terrorist plot ignited fears across America last week. "We believe the information (in this case) is not over because of other uncorroborated information we have...

AVIE, Fla., Sept. 15 (AP) — Insisting that he and his friends harbored no resentment, one of the three Muslim medical students detained in a terror scare on a Florida highway said today that the situation had been a misunderstanding.The student, Kambiz Butt, 25, said the men simply wanted to clear their names and be allowed to continue their education in the United States."We're medical students; we are not terrorists," said Mr. Butt, flanked at a news conference by the other students, Ayman Gheith, 27, and Omar Choudhary, 23. "Our concern in life is to become doctors. We want...

A Chicago woman who had an anthrax hoax letter mailed to a Houston woman was sentenced Friday to six months in federal prison. Robin Lynette Butler, 28, pleaded guilty in June to mailing threatening communications. In November, she mailed an envelope with white powder and a note saying "Anthrax kills b----, to a friend in Virginia. Butler asked the unsuspecting friend to forward the letter to a Houston woman dating her ex-boyfriend, said prosecutor Abe Martinez. Butler told the friend the envelope contained money for the Houston woman, who would not accept money from her. Butler apologized in court Friday...

<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>