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To: HG who wrote (328)	10/27/2001 10:24:46 PM
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Indian duo ‘tentatively linked’ to hijacker S. Rajagopalan (Washington, October 27) The two Indians, held in Texas a day after the September 11 terrorist attacks, have been “tentatively linked” to one of the hijackers, the Dallas Morning News reported today quoting federal authorities. The FBI, however, has not said anything on the development so far. According to the paper, the FBI has obtained “credible witness accounts” that the two men, Ayub Ali Khan and Mohammed Jaweed Azmath, were seen with a hijacker at a mosque in Brooklyn, New York, and at a nearby convenience store before last month's attack. “There is enough evidence there to make us completely suspicious...We’re starting to get them linked to one of the hijackers,” a federal law enforcement official has been quoted as saying. Another official, however, has said that “much more work” remains to be done. Khan and Azmath, who belong to Hyderabad, were picked up from an Amtrak train in Texas on September 12 after they were found to be carrying box cutters of the type used by the hijackers, photocopies of multiple passports and about $ 5,000 in cash. A day earlier, they had flown in from New Jersey. Of the 977 people arrested in connection with September 11, the Indian duo is among the handful of cases that has reportedly intrigued FBI investigators. So far, Khan and Azmath have been detained as material witnesses. The “tentative linking” of the duo to one of the hijackers comes a day after disclosures that the shaving of body hair by the two men had aroused the suspicion of investigators. The two men, who reportedly trembled and breathed rapidly during the initial questioning in the train, have denied any involvement with the September 11 attacks. They said they were travelling to San Antonio to spend a month with a friend.