“He wasn’t the only one who took the book bags,” Khan said during an interview inside his cluttered apartment. When asked about the scale, Khan said he had no idea of its existence.
“They [federal investigators] said they found it here, but I never saw it,” Khan said. He added that JTTF agents who raided his apartment took his laptop computer and cell phone along with his roommates’ cell phones.
Khan has said he knew Zazi only as an acquaintance from the neighborhood, someone he used to run into at the local mosque before Zazi left New York last year.
Khan says the scrutiny and suspicion has put a strain on him and his roommates.
He says he’s caught up in something he doesn’t understand.
“I barely knew [Zazi]. How was I to know what was in his mind?” he said.
“Your life can change without warning,” he said, “and you are helpless.”