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Employee fired after praising terror attack
Greensboro Fishwrap ^ | 9-15-01 | PHILLIP REESE

Posted on 09/15/2001 10:45:15 AM PDT by Rebelbase

GREENSBORO -- On Tuesday, Abdou Larabou Moussa showed up at Kay Chemical celebrating the morning's terrorist attacks.

On Wednesday, Moussa arrived at work in combat fatigues. On Thursday, he was fired, arrested and told he would be deported.

Moussa, 28, was charged with trespassing after refusing to leave Kay Chemical Co. on Capital Drive, Greensboro police said Friday. Company officials say Moussa loudly celebrated Tuesday's attacks and later distracted workers by dressing in combat fatigues.

After his arrest, Moussa admitted he is in the country illegally, according to Detective S.E. Sanders. Immigration and Naturalization Services will soon deport him to his home country of Niger, Sanders said.

Moussa was an employee of Key Resources, a local temp agency, and had been working in a Kay Chemical warehouse for about two weeks. He began taunting employees when he showed up for work Tuesday, Kay Chemical Vice President Steve Mosh said.

"It was incredibly inappropriate," Mosh said. "He said he was glad (the attacks) happened. He was gloating."

The next day, Moussa came to work dressed in combat fatigues. He was quickly told to go home. On Thursday, Key Resources fired him.

Moussa then told his employers that he wanted to come back to Kay Chemical to get his final paycheck. At the request of officials at Kay Chemical and Key Resources, police escorted Moussa back into the Kay Chemical. When he refused to leave, he was arrested, Sanders said.

Moussa never threatened Kay Chemical employees. Pam Medlin, owner of Key Resources, said Moussa's actions and clothing, however, made his co-workers feel threatened.

"I wanted him to know this is not tolerated in this country," she said. "You cannot say this. It is viewed as a threat."

Company officials were in compliance with the law when they fired Moussa, according to Deborah Ross, director of the ACLU of North Carolina.

"North Carolina is an employment-at-will state," she said. "You can be fired for your political beliefs by a private employer here."

Key Resources conducted a thorough background check on Moussa, but found nothing to indicate that he was in the country illegally, Medlin said.


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I'm suprised that he did not recieve a through beating by his co-workers.
1 posted on 09/15/2001 10:45:15 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase
Deporting illegal immigrants is nonsense. They should first be sentenced to serve 5 years in the most miserable conditions imaginable, just so they'll never think of coming back.
2 posted on 09/15/2001 10:52:36 AM PDT by Alberta's Child
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To: Rebelbase
If I had been his co-worker, he would not have gloated for long. The people at my work who are from the Middle-East are very contrite, and stay in their cubes for the most part.

Maybe it has something to do with the .50BMG round I use for a paperweight.

/john

3 posted on 09/15/2001 10:53:24 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper
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To: Rebelbase
"North Carolina is an employment-at-will state," she said. "You can be fired for your political beliefs by a private employer here."

Notice there is no editorial content added by the ACLU spokesman. Interesting.

4 posted on 09/15/2001 10:55:16 AM PDT by Illbay
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To: Rebelbase
It's up north. Down here in the south he would have gotten the ass whooping he requested... We aim to please...
5 posted on 09/15/2001 10:56:29 AM PDT by go star go
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To: Rebelbase

After his arrest, Moussa admitted he is in the country illegally...

The WTC attack did not occur because Americans have too much freedom. 

It occurred because:

  1. U.S. border/immigration policy (or lack of enforcement thereof) allowed known terrorists to enter and remain in the country while attending flight school.

  2. The pilots of the hijacked aircraft, for whatever reason, were persuaded to open the cockpit doors to the terrorists.

The fact that William Cohen, Dick Gephardt and other statists propound that the only solution to terrorism is to "trade freedom for security" betrays the fact that their true agenda is to curtail freedom.

7 posted on 09/15/2001 10:57:50 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: Illbay
What the h#ll is the matter with this guys' co-workers? Why was he not beaten to a bloody pulp????
8 posted on 09/15/2001 10:57:50 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: Alberta's Child
They should first be sentenced to serve 5 years in the most miserable conditions imaginable, just so they'll never think of coming back

Disagree. They are a focus of insurrection if they remain here and a cost to our system and a risk to our guards. They should be deported (possible with a secret injection of a powerful carcinogen.)

9 posted on 09/15/2001 10:58:12 AM PDT by patriciaruth
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To: Rebelbase
I think we should deport more then just him. I am not being hateful, just practicle. Anyone who is from the Middle East, from countries like Iraq, Iran, Afganastan, or Lebonon should be deported if they have been in this country less then 5 years AND especially if they have NO family ties here. Of course, I am NOT talking about Citizens!

And in addition, single men with no families, from those countries should EVEN be detained. Their back grounds should be thourghly investigated. If it is found that they are EVEN suspected of any terrorist ties, then they should be held UNTIL this matter is resolved. And then they should be DEPORTED AND NEVER ALLOWED TO RETURN.

Finally, to hell with Fox and Canada, OUR BOARDERS NEED TO BE SECURED ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!!!

10 posted on 09/15/2001 10:58:57 AM PDT by Buchanan mama
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To: Rebelbase
Company officials were in compliance with the law when they fired Moussa, according to Deborah Ross, director of the ACLU of North Carolina.

Once again, the Anti-American Civil Liberties Union clarifies life as it should be.

11 posted on 09/15/2001 10:59:04 AM PDT by EggsAckley
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To: Rebelbase
I heard that Peter Jennings was irate that he was fired.
12 posted on 09/15/2001 10:59:40 AM PDT by bcjbs
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To: Rebelbase
A shame we couldn't put him, and others like him, to work carrying rubble on their backs...let him celebrate under 100 pounds of concrete.
13 posted on 09/15/2001 11:00:23 AM PDT by CWOJackson
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To: Illbay
The ACLU's hatred of Capitalism is only exceeded by its ignorance about capitalism.

I wonder - if this creep decided to no longer engage in commerce with his employer for political reasons, would the ACLU make a peep?

15 posted on 09/15/2001 11:04:06 AM PDT by Senator Pardek
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To: patriciaruth
There won't be any insurrection (or any need for guards) if they are imprisoned in a compound in the middle of Nevada, miles away from civilization -- they don't even need to be guarded. They can be put there with the understanding that if a single prisoner misbehaves, the water gets shut off for a week. If a large-scale "insurrection" breaks out, the water doesn't get turned back on.
16 posted on 09/15/2001 11:05:53 AM PDT by Alberta's Child
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To: Rebelbase
Don't deport him, kill him. We are at war and he is the enemy.
17 posted on 09/15/2001 11:06:03 AM PDT by AdvisorB
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To: Rebelbase
Dear Mr. Moussa:

Your behavior at work is completely unsatisfactory.

Your employment with our company is terminated as of this date for misconduct.

As soon as you pull this message out of your @$$, where my boot stuffed it in, you are no longer employed.

Sincerely,

The Mgt.

18 posted on 09/15/2001 11:06:48 AM PDT by LibKill
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To: EricOKC
If it had been MY company, an illegal alien never would have been hired in the first place!
19 posted on 09/15/2001 11:07:32 AM PDT by Alberta's Child
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