[Mitchell]

In spite of reports suggesting the contrary, it appears that the Ayub Khan with the same address as Sabash Gurung is the same as the Ayub Ali Khan who was arrested shortly after the 9/11 attack and is a probable terrorist.

I've traced down a Washington Post article from 9/21/2001 entitled "Focus Continues on Two New Jersey Men." It states that Khan and Azmath (who was arrested with Khan) gave a number of addresses; in particular, it says, "Khan also listed an address on West Hollywood Avenue in Chicago...." Click on the link to read the entire article.

Recall that Khan and Azmath were on board a plane to San Antonio on 9/11 when all planes were grounded. Their plane landed in St. Louis, and they took a train from there to San Antonio. They were then arrested with box cutters, $5000 in cash, and hair dye. They are from Hyderabad, India, and were in the U.S.A. on false passports. Khan's real name is said to be Gul Mohammed Shah.

Sabash Gurung is the Nepalese just arrested at O'Hare Airport with a stash of weapons (knives, a stun gun, etc.). Gurung lives with his brother Sushil at 1025 W. Hollywood Ave. in Chicago. A person by the name of Ayub Khan also lives at that address (see the Chicago phone book), but the FBI suggested that this wasn't the same Ayub Khan who had been arrested and that there was no evidence linking Gurung to terrorist activities. The fact that an article from 9/21, long before Gurung was in the news, says that Khan listed a West Hollywood Ave., Chicago, address strongly suggests that the two Ayub Khans are, in fact, the same person. (I'd like to track down a source with the full Chicago street address Khan gave when he was arrested.)

One further point connecting these three: unlike the cell(s) of mostly Saudi Arabians who committed the 9/11 massacres, these three are all from the Indian subcontinent (2 from India and 1 from Nepal). (In spite of being from India, I would assume that Khan is Moslem, since his real middle name is Mohammed. I don't know that the other two are Moslem.)

[Mitchell]

Correction: The Washington Post article is from 9/28/2001, not 9/21.

[Lion's Cub]

Thanks for your #14 and the link. When I first saw your post about the address on another thread, I knew I had read that somewhere, too. But when I looked in my files for the story, I hadn't saved it.

It seems the FBI can't help itself--after 8 yrs. of Clintonite promotions, there's no one in authority who can tell the truth. Clinton packed the government with chronic liars.

[aristeides]

Khan and Azmath are Moslems. I've seen press reports that they attended the same radical mosque in Jersey City from which the blind mullah organized the '93 attack on the WTC. Hyderabad, the city from which they hail in India, has many Moslems. It would be interesting to know if there is a radical mosque near this Chicago address -- the FBI had better be investigating that, if it wants to avoid an attack on the Sears Tower.

What would be decisive in deciding this case, I think, is this Gurung guy's religion, which I have not seen reported. 3% of the population of Nepal is Moslem. Does anybody know whether Subash Bahadur Gurung's name indicates his religion?

[FR_addict]

Thanks for the update on the address. I think the FBI is covering up their incompetence, not giving out misinformation.

They refused to use 100s of former FBI agents who have volunteered to help. There's plenty of work for these agents to do. Good old fashion research is desperately needed by the FBI.

[Mitchell]

I finally traced down a Chicago Tribune article from 9/17/2001 which states the following (the first paragraph below refers to a Jersey City apartment, the second paragraph to the same Chicago apartment house that Sabash Gurung lives in):

"Ayub Ali Khan and Mohammed Jaweed Azmath, both of whom are from India, have leased the small, one-bedroom apartment, No. 202, for the past six or seven years, said the landlord, who requested anonymity.

"However, public records show that, as recently as last June, both men listed their residence as an apartment at 1025 W. Hollywood Ave. on Chicago's North Side."

This pins it down -- it's an article from Sept. 17 associating both Ayub Ali Khan and Mohammed Jaweed Azmath with the 1025 W. Hollywood Ave., Chicago, address that Sabash Gurung lived in with his brother.

When Gurung was arrested and gave 1025 W. Hollywood Ave., Chicago, as his address, the news media discovered that there was an Ayub Khan at the same address. The FBI then suggested that this was a coincidence of names, that the Ayub Ali Khan who was arrested did not live at that address.

This cannot be correct, however, since that specific address is given for Ayub Ali Khan in this 9/17 article, from well before the early November arrest of Gurung.

My guess is that Khan and Azmath really did live in Jersey City (based on their landlord's statement that they'd been there for years), and that they maintained the Chicago apartment as a meeting place in Chicago for a cell composed of Indians/Nepalese/Pakistanis. (The Sept. 11 attacks were carried out primarily by Saudis, so it appears that al-Qaeda organizes its cells along the lines of nationality. This makes sense anyway for encouraging trust among the cell members and fostering communication among them.)