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| Two men with box cutters, hair dye arrested |
| 2001-09-15 |
IRVING, Tex., Sept. 14 — Two men with box cutters, hair dye and a large amount of cash who were seized by federal authorities on an Amtrak train in Fort Worth on Wednesday remained in custody today for immigration violations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said. The men are Ayub Ali Khan, 51, and Mohammed Jaweed Azmath, 47, the F.B.I. said. The bureau would not identify their country of origin. "Certainly the totality of the circumstances involved leads us to want to know why they were traveling, and why they carried those items," said Lori Bailey, a spokeswoman for the Dallas office of the F.B.I. "They are out of status with regard to their immigration papers and have no right to be in the United Sates." Both men were carrying identification documents, but Ms. Bailey would not say whether the documents were false, how much cash the men carried or whether they had been connected to terrorist groups or the attacks in New York and Washington. "All information on anything connected to this has to come out of the White House," she said. "That's the direction we've received." The authorities confirmed that the two men were flying to San Antonio from Newark when their plane made a stopover in St. Louis on Tuesday. After federal officials halted air traffic in response to Tuesday's hijackings, the men continued by train toward San Antonio until they were taken into custody during a routine drug patrol, officials said. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |