It happened in the halls of city government in Houston, Texas.
Written proof from a proud Pakistani...
http://www.houstonpress.com/news/city-e-mail-endorses-terrorism-6560444
City E-mail Endorses Terrorism
By Tim Fleck
Thursday, November 1, 2001 | 14 years ago
On September 12, almost exactly 24 hours after terrorists slammed hijacked jets into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, an accountant in the Houston city controller’s office sat at his keyboard and typed a gloating e-mail to a friend in the city legal department.
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“What’s your take on this bombing?” asked the sender, a slight 30-year-old man of Pakistani descent. He went on to offer his view:
“I say it’s great and wonderful and probably the best thing I’ve seen in my life.
“The world got what it deserved.
“Persons are rotten, evil, and thrash [sic] so this is what happens when they act like that and I hope a full scale war breaks out over this.”
The author got his wish and more. As military action raged later in Afghanistan, his leaked e-mail provoked a bureaucratic battle at City Hall that led to his resignation. After the worker left, superiors found that his computer contained prurient e-mails suggesting he had solicited and purchased sexual favors from a female legal department secretary.
Although the recipient of the original e-mail was his confidante, she found the terrorism message alarming enough to turn it over to her supervisor, Connie Acosta, the section chief of the department’s labor division. And there the matter apparently rested for two weeks, until a staffer for Controller Sylvia Garcia was forwarded a copy of the e-mail and alerted her boss.
“I was very offended by it,” recalls Garcia. “I thought it was sentiments of hate that, particularly when written the morning after such a tragic event, were very offensive and inappropriate for an employee of the city, being done on city time and using city property.”
Top controller officials were stunned that in the heightened security following the attacks, Acosta had not bothered to alert them or City Attorney Anthony Hall about the e-mail.
“You can’t print my reaction,” says Garcia. “I was very disappointed in the lack of any response from anyone in legal, and the fact they didn’t bother to tell us even though it was one of our own employees.”...
I hope this stuff has been sent to Donald!