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Is the name really a coincidence? Ayub Ali Khan gave a Chicago address when arrested (but I can't find an article stating the specific address he gave). Check out this Chicago Sun-Times article from Sept. 19, 2001. It's entitled: "Second Wave of Attacks May Have Been Planned." Here's a section from the middle of the article:

In Chicago, FBI agents have worked to confirm if two men arrested last week had lived here. The men, Ayub Ali Khan, 51, and Mohammed Jaweed Azmath, 47, had left the Newark, N.J., airport aboard a flight headed for Texas roughly the same time as the hijackings.
The airplane was grounded in St. Louis, so the men took a train headed to Texas. They were arrested with $5,000 in cash and box cutters like the ones used by the hijackers. The men had listed Chicago addresses among others.

The Acxiom phone directory CD-ROM shows the following:

KHAN AYUB, 1025 W HOLLYWOOD AVE CHICAGO IL
GURUNG SUSHIL, 1025 W HOLLYWOOD AVE CHICAGO IL

Of course, this Ayub Khan may be a different person from the Ayub Ali Khan arrested, as the article claims. What Chicago address did Ayub Ali Khan give when he was arrested?

More on Gurung from the Sun-Times...

Last Thursday, Gurung returned to the buildings to rent an apartment but was unsuccessful, the building managers said.
"He said he was coming back from Minnesota where his brother had gone to study," said Adam Colfax, manager of the 5737 N. Kenmore building. The brothers had moved out of the building last September, he said.
Gurung was reserved, even "anti-social," while his brother was a "real nice guy," Colfax said.
When he was arrested, Gurung possessed what he allegedly admitted was a fake U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service employment authorization card in the name of Aishwarya Gurung. His student visa expired Dec. 31, 1999, prosecutors said.

To follow up on an old story, here is an article from the April 25, 2002, issue of the Kathmandu Post. It seems to have gotten very little press in the U.S. So often we read a news article about someone's arrest, and then there's no follow-up. Anyway, here's the story:

US court finds Gurung incompetent to stand trial

Post Report

KATHMANDU, April 24 : A Nepali man arrested in Chicago last year on charges of concealing weapons while boarding a flight has been found incompetent to stand trial.

According to the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper, Subash Gurung, who was arrested last year in November at the Chicago O’Hare International Airport while trying to board a domestic flight was found incompetent to stand trial by the federal district court.

US District Judge William J. Hibbler ruled on April 22 that Gurung will remain in a federal prison hospital at Rochester, Minnesota, for treatment. He could be tried again if he recovers. The newspaper said that the judge based his decision on the findings of two psychiatrists who examined Gurung.

Gurung, who faces a prison term or possible deportation, was arrested on November 3 last year at the airport while trying to board a flight to Omaha, Nebraska. Security officials found several knives, a stun gun and a can of pepper spray in his carry on luggage.

The Chicago Sun-Times added that the judge ordered attorneys to report back to the court on June 24 on what progress doctors are making in restoring Gurung’s competency.

Gurung’s arrest was the first high-profile case involving lax of US airport security after the horror of September 11, when 19 hijackers slipped through security at various US airports and took control of large jets full of passengers. They slammed the jets on the World Trade Centre Twin Towers in New York, and also on the Pentagon in Washington.

The apparent lack of airport security demonstrated by Gurung’s arrest helped convince America’s politicians to put airport security workers on the federal payrolls. Earlier, airport security was mostly contracted out to private companies.