The FBI searched two properties in South Jersey Thursday as part of a series of raids related to the foiled Times Square bombing plot.
Executing search warrants issued by the New York FBI field office, agents moved in on a Cherry Hill, N.J. condo and Camden printing company. Both belong to brothers Muhammad Fiaez and Iqbal Hinjhara.
Fiaez says the FBI came knocking at their home just before 6 a.m.
"They just come in and ask a questions, that's it," Fiaez said.
The Cherry Hill man says federal authorities separated him from his older brother for the questioning. He wouldn't elaborate as to what was actually asked, but said Times Square never came up.
"No, no, no. Nobody asked me about Times Square," he said.
It was May 1 when a late-90s Nissan Pathfinder was discovered in Times Square with a crude car bomb inside that failed to ignite. Authorities launched a massive manhunt and later took Faisal Shahzad into custody as he was about to travel to Pakistan.
Shahzad is cooperating with authorities.
Federal sources say the brothers were questioned about the Hawala system -- a cash courier network by which some terrorists get their funding.
With Hawala, brokers set up a manual money transfer that may travel through several people across several countries. It is commonly used in the Middle East as an informal banking system.
While Fiaez and Hinjhara were being questioned, agents also searched their Camden business, the Prompt Printing Press.
Authorities confiscated several items from the printing company, witnesses told NBC Philadelphia. Fiaez says nothing was taken from his home.
Three other people were arrested in the Boston and New York areas during Thursday's raids.
Fiaez and his brother were only questioned. Fiaez told NBC Philadelphia that he thinks it was just a case of mistaken identity.
