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Posted on 08/02/2004 11:03:36 AM PDT by Ramonan
Saudi national Hasan Saddiq Faseh Alddin was jailed without bail and facing deportation. Five of his closest friends from the Vista mosque wrote letters or showed up at his bond hearing in June to show support or testify on his behalf. In the days that followed, each of those friends received unannounced home visits from FBI agents. The agents appeared on doorsteps purporting to want information about Alddin, who was described by the government as a friend of a friend of two 9/11 hijackers.
But according to Alddin's supporters, they quickly became the subject of the interviews as agents asked them about their religious beliefs, their personal lives, their knowledge of weapons and explosives, their propensity to blow things up, their thoughts on Osama bin Laden and the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
To thwart a possible terrorist attack this summer or fall, the FBI has begun a new wave of interviews with Muslims and Arabs. But some local Muslims said agents are alienating the very people they are trying to win over as partners in the war on terror by ambushing them in their homes, posing offensive and accusatory questions, misrepresenting the reason for their visit, and delving into personal lives and politics.
"If I'm an FBI agent and I'm trying to protect the country, I don't go accusing people of planning on blowing things up and then, you know what, let's kiss and make up," said Khalid Al Jaludi, one of Alddin's friends visited by the FBI at his home in Hawthorne. Questions about profiling Khalid Al Jaludi, a U.S. citizen born in Jordan and raised in New York City, was asleep in his Hawthorne home when a knock came at 8:30 a.m. June 30, a Wednesday. His wife found two FBI agents at the door. Days before that, the former U.S. Marine had come to federal court in San Diego for Hasan Alddin's hearing. On his way to answer the door, Al Jaludi nervously recalled faces of friends who had been jailed or deported since Sept. 11.
Hello, the agents said, we are here about Alddin.
It wasn't long before the questions shifted to Al Jaludi and things became tense.
"They asked about three or four questions about Hasan," Al Jaludi said. "They next asked me if I know Jesse (Bernal). After that, they asked me if Jesse and I were planning on blowing anything up in the U.S. And that's when I said I think I need my lawyer."
Al Jaludi's lawyer and close friend, a former FBI agent and prosecutor, accompanied his client to the FBI office in Los Angeles the next day. By that time, Al Jaludi was on the defensive, unwilling to answer questions he considered accusatory.
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--I'm glad the FBI is doing their job.
Too damn bad. Maybe there wouldn't be a problem if the Muslims in the US would report those among them who are plotting against us (and them).
Please forgive me if I refrain from crying.
Live where you are loved.
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. Now, why don't I believe a word of this?
Assholes ought show their American and be proud to help.
I mean when their best invention over the 500 years has been the suicide belt you would think that they want to step up help the authorities help them.
When the Muslem community in America starts policing their own, turning to law enforcement when someone in their midst may be prone to do Americans harm, then Ill listen to any whining. Until then I'm very hard of hearing.
Nuff said.
Good.
Tough toodles!
Thanks FBI!!!
"have some muslims feeling harassed"
Odd, some muslim "visits" have left thousands dead worldwide. But we wouldn't want to make anyone FEEL badly, would we?
Now, Now, Now your being much to harsh!!
Not all muslims are terrorist!!!
It's just so far,all the terroist have been muslims.
Funny, ever since 9-11, I've been feeling harassed by Muslims! I guess what goes around, comes around. If they don't like it....GO BACK TO YOUR HOMELAND!
Tough. I had a FBI visit about an inlaw once. The repeated questions were more annoying than threatening, because I didn't know anything about the scumbag.
For some unknown reason, their whining doesn't impress me nor depress me.
Pardon me, but if you hate the West, why are you here ?
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