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MAN IN TERROR SCARE SAYS WOMAN IS LYING
Monday, September 13, 2002
Source: CNN
 NAPLES, Florida (CNN) -- The Georgia woman who prompted
Friday's terror scare was "flat-out lying"
when she told authorities she overheard three Muslim
men at a restaurant laughing about September 11 and
making suspicious comments, one of the men said late
Friday.
"How many other people witnessed this event that
supposedly took place, first of all? Did they ask the
server who served us? Did they ask anybody else that
was in the restaurant? How is it that one person can
pick up a phone and make any statement that they will
and we end up [in custody]?" said Ayman Gheith
at a rest area shortly after they were released.
"What she has said is obviously a lie."
Gheith has a bushy black beard and was wearing traditional
Muslim headgear. "She saw obviously the way I was
dressed, and maybe she put a little salt and pepper
in her story," he said.
Asked about his "suggestion" that the woman
might have lied, he said, "I'm not suggesting,
I'm telling you she's flat-out lying."
Gheith said he and his two friends -- Kambiz Butt and
Omer Choudhary -- were all medical students heading
to a nine-week course in Miami, and that's what they
were talking about at the Shoney's restaurant in Calhoun,
Georgia.
Asked if they made any comments about September 11,
joking or otherwise, he said, "Of course not."
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