FBI raids Pakistani brothers in South Jersey

The investigation into the failed Times Square car-bomb attempt came to South Jersey yesterday, as the FBI visited two Cherry Hill men who run a Camden printing business.

The FBI said the public wasn't in any danger, but when investigators swooped in early yesterday morning, residents of the Park Place condominiums in Cherry Hill were left with larger concerns than their complaints that the Pakistani family crams too many people into their unit and takes up too many parking spaces.

"These days, you don't know who you're living next to," said neighbor Joseph Abate. "I'm concerned but I'm not going to lose sleep over it."

Special Agent J.J. Klaver, a spokesman for the FBI in Philadelphia, declined to say what agents were looking for when they conducted the early morning raids on the second-floor condo where brothers Iqbal Hinjhara and Muhammad Fiaez live, and at the Camden printing business they run. But he did say the public was not in danger of getting blown up.

"Nobody was building bombs at either of these locations," he said.

The raids in South Jersey were conducted along with similar operations yesterday morning in Maine, Massachusetts and Long Island that resulted in three men from Pakistan being arrested on immigration violations.

Attorney General Eric Holder said investigators believe there is evidence the three men were providing Times Square car-bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad with money, but they haven't determined whether the men knew the money may have funded terrorism.

Shahzad, 30, was arrested on May 1 on charges he tried to blow up a van packed with gasoline and propane outside Times Square's restaurants and Broadway theaters. Authorities have been investigating whether the Connecticut man's operation was financed from overseas.

In Cherry Hill, neither Hinjhara nor Fiaez was arrested and Fiaez, speaking with reporters outside the condominium in broken English, said he was "confused" and seemed to think it was all a misunderstanding.

Fiaez, who moved to the U.S. 10 years ago from Pakistan, said the FBI questioned him and his brother separately about their printing business in Camden and never asked them about the Times Square case.

"I don't know why they come here," he said.

Fiaez said nothing had been taken from the home and that the FBI insisted he and his brother had been "cleared" afterward.

No one answered the doors at the printing company on Reeves Avenue in Camden's Cramer Hill section. A green Nissan pickup truck and a Honda Accord with no rear license plate sat in the beige warehouse's fenced-off yard next to 50-gallon drums.

Sources told the Star-Ledger of Newark that computers and documents were removed from the warehouse.

Pastor Roberto Lopez, who runs a Pentecostal church next to the business, said he never sees much going there.

"An old man came around every now and then. They moved machinery in and out sometimes but it wasn't busy," he said.

Tax records show that Hinjhara purchased the Reeves Avenue warehouse in September. City officials said there had been no code violations or complaints about the business since. Records show the company listed under several names, including Greenway Shipping and Greenway Graphics, but Fiaez said the business sold printing machinery around the world.

Fiaez holed up inside the condominium for the rest of the day as reporters knocked on his door, and a neighbor said she saw Hinjhara quickly scoop up his two children in his BMW at a nearby bus stop shortly before 4 p.m.

Margie Tenerovich, president of Park Place's condominium association, said she's received complaints from neighbors about them being "disrespectful" and a "nuisance".

"I didn't know them personally," she said.

The family rents the home, Tenerovich said, and has only lived there for a few months.

The woman who lives below the family said strange "drilling" noises come from the unit above her. She said she befriended Hinjhara's wife and two children.

The woman, who declined to give her name, said the family left North Jersey recently after being "tormented by neighbors after 9/11."

"He was distant," the neighbor said about Hinjhara. "The children were sweethearts."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.