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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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To: kd5cts
LOL
21 posted on 09/15/2001 11:08:45 AM PDT by Slyfox
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The pilots of the hijacked aircraft, for whatever reason, were persuaded to open the cockpit doors to the terrorists.

Do we know this for certain? It doesn't take much effort to break one of those doors down.

22 posted on 09/15/2001 11:09:30 AM PDT by SMEDLEYBUTLER
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To: kd5cts
Please don't assume that they are contrite because they are afraid of you. Believe it or not, they may be just as upset about the attack as you are. Also, if you care to notice, all the other employees are probably also contrite around someone who keeps ordinance as a decorative accent piece.
23 posted on 09/15/2001 11:11:02 AM PDT by ExpatCanuck
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To: Rebelbase
I am small, and would probably get my ass kicked. I am libertarian who, by questioning our foreign policy, am consdered an enemy by many on this site. I would have punched him.
24 posted on 09/15/2001 11:11:09 AM PDT by gjenkins
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To: patriciaruth
(possible with a secret injection of a powerful carcinogen.)

Secrets can't be kept, just have them serve a month or two in an AIDS infected cellblock, with "blind" guards.

25 posted on 09/15/2001 11:11:24 AM PDT by StriperSniper
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To: Logic Society
Only deport half of them. Upper half today; bottom half tomorrow!
26 posted on 09/15/2001 11:13:35 AM PDT by GREY GHOSTt
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To: Rebelbase
I'm not...........it would have been reported and prosecuted as a HATE CRIME.
27 posted on 09/15/2001 11:14:03 AM PDT by PISANO
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To: Rebelbase
Thanks for posting this. Perhaps it will help me get a group of Somalis in Seattle deported.

Tuesday night, a group of them cathered at a Somali restaurant in West Seattle to celebrate. According to reports on Michael Medved radio show, they were dancing and cheering and shouting with joy. Some sane Muslim fellow went to the restaurant and told them to stop, but they would not.

These Somalis got here at taxpayer expense, we paid for their ticket as part of some relief effort to save poor downtrodden natives, and I'm quite sure that we're paying their rent and handing them welfare checks and free medical services too.

Any group of foreign nationals who celebrated the WTC outrage should be deported tomorrow; they are clearly a threat to our national security. I don't want to pay to keep them in our jails.

28 posted on 09/15/2001 11:15:28 AM PDT by PoisedWoman
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To: Rebelbase
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.

His home country is a cesspool. Can you imagine the arrogance of someone, gloating about the deaths of thousands and wearing combat fatigues to work, when he's just a security check away from being deported back into a cesspool?

Of course, once he's back in Niger, he'll get on another plane under an assumed name, and start work the following Monday at a company down the street.

29 posted on 09/15/2001 11:15:51 AM PDT by 537 Votes
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To: Rebelbase
A terrorist wannabe who because of his country of origin could not make the first team. What we have learned so far is that the terrorist network is composed almost exclusively of those from the Arabian peninsula. If other nationalities are involved they are so involved off our shores.
30 posted on 09/15/2001 11:17:11 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: Mr.Smorch
moron.
31 posted on 09/15/2001 11:17:13 AM PDT by AntiTyrant
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To: Buchanan mama
I hate to admit it being an immigrant myself, but everything you say reeks of nothing but common sense. It was common sense that forced the internment (sp?) of the Japanese during WWII, and nothing more. If the intial task at hand is survival of the United States in the form we know it to exist today, anyone without an incentive to love and protect the country should be deported (not the incentive of entitlement and easy living, but the incentive that thrives because of all a person has accomplished due to the supremacy of the American ideal.)

Obviously there are American citizens who would fall into the category I just mentioned, but they are protected by US law and nothing can be done about them, except by force of national will remaining so united and unyielding, that they dare not call attention to the treason in their hearts and minds.

32 posted on 09/15/2001 11:18:51 AM PDT by Aedammair
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To: Mr.Smorch
Don't deport him, kill him. We are at war and he is the enemy.

For all the sob stories there have been about harassment of Arabs and some broken windows on Mosques, it seems Americans are being extremely tolerant that this guy was allowed to gloat of the death of Americans and the destruction of our economy.

33 posted on 09/15/2001 11:19:15 AM PDT by FITZ
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To: Rebelbase
I'm suprised that he did not recieve a through beating by his co-workers

A local Engineering firm here in Detroit had a little situation where an Arabic man jumped and appluaded the crashes...after work, he was givin an old fashion blanket party in the parking lot, and the next day he was fired.

I for one was happy to see it, and a restored faith in patriotism has surounded me.

GBTV...

SR

34 posted on 09/15/2001 11:19:27 AM PDT by sit-rep
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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."
when you can be fired by a private employer for ANY reason, in every state, then we will be on our way to true liberty and free commerce. business owners are merely hostages in our current environment.
35 posted on 09/15/2001 11:20:05 AM PDT by AntiTyrant
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To: go star go
It's up north. Down here in the south he would have gotten the ass whooping he requested... We aim to please...

This was in the south (Greensboro, NC)

You can tell as the link shows both High Point and Greensboro as news links. High Point is in the Greensboro (Triad) area of NC.

My wife is from Greensboro, NC. It's an awesome place;good people.

36 posted on 09/15/2001 11:21:21 AM PDT by AlGone2001
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To: Rebelbase
I'll bet you $100 that Mr Moussa thinks that B. Clintoon was "a great president". I'll even go out on a limb and state that most of the foreigners who are living in this country who are celebrating the destruction on 9/11 think that "Clinton was a good president". No, I'm not kidding.
37 posted on 09/15/2001 11:21:36 AM PDT by PallMal
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To: ExpatCanuck
all the other employees are probably also contrite around someone who keeps ordinance as a decorative accent piece

Nah, the guys with crew-cuts and loud voices at work are fine with my paper-weight. Texas is like that.

/john

38 posted on 09/15/2001 11:23:03 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper
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To: AlGone2001
Anything north of Shreveport is yankee country...
39 posted on 09/15/2001 11:23:05 AM PDT by go star go
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To: gjenkins
I would have punched him. </>

If I had been there you would have had to stand in line

40 posted on 09/15/2001 11:25:51 AM PDT by clamper1797
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