FbiAlertOn19NewSuspectsInDec2002

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On December 29th 2002, the FBI issued a new terror alert on 19 suspects, which illegally entered the US borders and released a list of 5 names: Abid Noraiz Ali, Iftikhar Khozmai Ali, Mustafa Khan Owasi, Adil Pervez and Akbar Jamal. Only a few days later, a pakistani man said, that he was pictured in the alert, but is innocent. An AP photograph of Mohammed Asghar taken at his shop in Lahore on Wednesday was a near-perfect match for the one included on the FBI list under the name Mustafa Khan Owasi, down to the prominent mole on Asghar's left cheek. Asghar, 30, told AP that he was surprised to open a local newspaper and see his picture with another man's name beneath it. Asghar said his only attempt at traveling abroad was frustrated when police in the United Arab Emirates discovered he had a forged visa. He suggested that the document forgers he once patronized could have used his picture to create false travel documents for another man. He acknowledged that two months ago he tried to travel to Britain on forged documents. But he said that immigration officials at the airport in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, detected the falsification, questioned him for nine hours, arrested him and deported him back to Pakistan. Asked if the forgers were responsible for switching the photos, Asghar said "I don't know who misused my travel documents. I don't know how my picture reached the hands of the FBI." Asghar refused to say where, or from whom, he bought the forged documents. Source: http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/south/01/01/pakistan.wanted.man.ap/index.html

On January 2nd, 2003, canadian officials denied, that 5 of the FBI-suspects had ever been in Canada. The FBI claimed, they got the tip on the terror crew by a canadian prisoner named Michael John Hamdani, who was selling phony passports in Queens, New York. http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/52445.htm Then, on January 6th, 2002, only 2 days, after Deepak Paradkar, the lawyer for alleged "informant" John Hamdani said, his client will not oppose extradition (NY POST) and 1 day after WorldNetDaily and http://CapitolBlueHill.com broke the news about fabricated threads (->), orchestrated by the White House, the FBI confirmed, that the story on the 19 terrorists from Canada was a hoax. FBI alert for five men based on hoax - ABC News http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N06344227 WASHINGTON, Jan 6 (Reuters) "...The FBI has concluded the information that led to a hunt for five men thought to have entered the United States illegally on Christmas Eve was fabricated..."