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ATTORNEYS WILL NOT GRANT INTERVIEWS WITH SUSPECTS
IN I-75 TERROR SCARE
Tuesday, December 10, 2002
Source: Naples Daily News
 Attorneys for three medical students involved in a high-profile
terror scare on Alligator Alley in the fall have rejected
Collier County Sheriff Don Hunter's request for more
interviews.
Lawyers for Kambiz Butt, 25, Ayman Gheith, 27, and Omar
Choudhary, 23, said they turned down Hunter's request
after the sheriff drafted a letter Oct. 29, requesting
a meeting with the three students in Miami.
In the letter, addressed to Dave Kubiliun, the Miami-Dade
attorney representing the students, Hunter offered
for agency investigators to meet with the students
Nov. 8 in an effort to bring closure to the case.
The attorneys declined Hunter's solicitation.
"We made the students available for Sheriff Hunter
after the incident and he promised we would be contacted
within a week," Kubiliun said.
"With this letter, you're talking about six weeks
later."
The three students — who are Muslim of Middle
Eastern descent — were detained for 17 hours between
Sept. 12-13 after Georgia authorities issued a be-on-the-lookout
alert, acting on a tip from a patron at a Shoney's diner
in Calhoun, Ga., who reported that the men had allegedly
discussed a terrorist plot that was supposed to go down
in Miami and laughed about the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The students have said their conversation was taken
out of context. Eunice Stone, the Georgia restaurant
patron, has maintained that the men did make such remarks.
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