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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?

[Khan and Azmath] had listed Chicago addresses among others.

Good catch, that September 18 Sun-Times article.

I noticed the FBI agent's statement proclaiming "no connection" has Gurung's name spelled differently:

"..Our investigation - has not found any link between the fellow in custody here in Chicago - Sabush Gerrung - and anyone else connected to any other terrorist activities..."

Elsewhere the guy's name is spelled "Sabash Gurung."

What's with the FBI? Is this creative spelling?