Career
Khan described growing disillusioned with his gambling debts and his job as a waiter. He describes being recruited to travel to Pakistan for training for jihad, outside a London gambling establishment, by a recruiter who offered to pay off his gambling debts. He describes being trained just outside Lahore in how to hijack planes.
His trainers had mockups of Boeing aircraft for the training.
He was then to travel to New York City, in April 2000, to join a cell intending to attack civilian targets in the United States of America. However, he described having cold feet, and failing to meet his contact at the airport. He described gambling away all his contingency money.
He described fearing punishment from his terrorist handlers. He approached the Federal Bureau of Investigation and warned them that al Qaeda was planning to hijack planes to attack civilian targets in the United States of America. He was debriefed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for several weeks.
Although he passed two lie detector tests, ultimately the Federal Bureau of Investigation didn"t believe him.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation sent him back to the United Kingdom, where he was interviewed by United Kingdom security officials, who didn"t believe him either. The Guardian quoted Khan"s reaction to watching al Qaeda"s attack on September 11, 2001. Khan was interviewed by National Broadcasting Company News in 2004, on national television