FBI raids Camden, Cherry Hill sites in Times Square probe

FBI counterterrorism agents today searched a Camden business and a Cherry Hill home for evidence related to the Times Square bombing attempt, two federal law enforcement officials said.

There is no threat to the public from explosives at either site, said FBI spokesman J.J. Klaver.

FBI, Immigration Customs Enforcement and other federal agents also raided homes in suburban Boston and New York.

Three men from Pakistan were detained on administrative immigration charges, a law enforcement source said. Two were picked up in the Boston area and one was detained in Maine, the official said.

Klaver confirmed the raids in South Jersey but said he could not discuss details.

Two law enforcement sources said the search warrants by the Philadelphia-based Joint Terrorism Task Force were executed this morning.

An official said a Cherry Hill home near the old racetrack site on Haddonfield Road and a Camden printing business were searched.

More than a dozen agents swarmed a building in a well-manicured Cherry Hill condominium complex this morning.

Muhammad Fiaez, 37, said the agents knocked at 6 a.m. on the door of the unit that he shares with his brother, Iqbal Hinjhara, on Park Place Drive.

The agents, he said, questioned them separately and asked how long they had lived in the United States and what they were doing here.

Fiaez, a native of Pakistan, said he had lived in the U.S. for about 10 years and in the apartment for about four-months.

Fiaez said he works with his brother Hinjhara, 49, at a business Hinjhara owns in Camden that sells printing machines.

The business ships to India, Europe and Pakistan, he said.

After an hour of questioning, Fieaz said the FBI agents returned his identification papers and told him he had been "cleared"

Fiaez, who speaks in heavily accented English said, "Nobody asked me about Times Square."

The Camden address is a squat, beige industrial building across from a park on Reeves Street off River Road in Camden's Cramer Hill neighborhood.

Iqbal Hinjhara bought the Camden property in September from Long View Publishing Company for $237,000, according to tax records. He is listed in a state business database as agent for a company called M.Y. Printing Equipment. The state revoked its status as a corporation in 2006 for failure to file annual reports. Prompt Printing Press operated at the location for years before closing in early 2009.

The printing business is adjacent to the Iglesia Maranta Rose de Saron, a Pentecostal church housed in a smaller industrial building

The church's pastor, the Rev. Roberto Lopez, said the new owners of the building, including Hinjhara, moved in about six months ago.

At that time they removed old presses and brought new ones in.

He said it was his understanding that the building was used as warehouse for a printing press sales business.

Lopez said he did not have a lot of contact with Hinjhara or others at the business.

"We would say, 'Hello.' That's it," Lopez said, adding he last saw someone at the warehouse yesterday.

One neighborhood woman said she noticed a person sitting for five hours in a car parked on the other side of the park but with a view of the building on Wednesday.

Dean Boyd, a Justice Department spokesman in Washington, confirmed that three men had been detained and that the raids were related to the failed Times Square bombing.

"At this time we can provide no further details as the investigation is ongoing," Boyd said. "These searches are the product of evidence that has been gathered in the investigation subsequent to the attempted Times Square bombing and do not relate to any known immediate threat to the public or active plot against the United States."

Faisal Shazad, the Connecticut man charged with attempting to set off a car bomb in Times Square, has reportedly been cooperating with the FBI. The Pakistani-born U.S. citizen has told the FBI that he was trained by the Taliban in Pakistan to build bombs.

During a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee this morning, Attorney General Eric Holder said that Shahzad was encouraged by Taliban forces in Pakistan to set off a bomb in Times Square.

"We now believe that the Pakistan Taliban was responsible," Holder said. "We are currently working with the authorities in Pakistan on this investigation. and we will use every resource available to make sure that anyone found responsible, whether they be in the United States or overseas, is held accountable."

Staff writer Chelsea Conaboy contributed to this article.