GBI report on suspected terrorists being sent to Gordon County D.A.
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Posted 11:32AM on Monday 2nd December 2002 ( 22 years ago )
CALHOUN - The Georgia Bureau of Investigation's report about the case of three Muslim men accused of plotting a terrorist attack in a Shoney's restaurant will be sent to the Gordon County prosecutor within a week. <br>
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District Attorney Joe Campbell will decide whether state charges should be filed against the three medical students after reviewing the report. The men were driving from Illinois to Miami when they stopped at the restaurant in Calhoun on September 12. A woman in the restaurant -- Eunice Stone -- told authorities she heard the three talking about blowing up something in Miami. <br>
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The report set off an alarm among police and jarred a nation still jittery a day after the one-year anniversary of the September eleventh attacks on New York City and Washington. <br>
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Before it ended, police in South Florida had closed a 20-mile stretch of Interstate 75, searched the students' two cars and held them for 17 hours. <br>
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Officials at the GBI would not say what information their report contains and declined to release the report because the investigation remains open. <br>
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Campbell says he has not been notified he would be receiving the report and that he would reserve comment until he reviews it. <br>
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The students -- 25-year-old Kambiz Butt, 27-year-old Ayman Gheith and 23-year-old Omar Choudhary say they said nothing in the Shoney's that should have alarmed anyone.
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