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Employee fired after praising terror attack
new-record.com ^ | 9-15-01 | Phillip Reese

Posted on 09/16/2001 3:21:02 AM PDT by tobygan

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Employee fired after praising terror attack

9-15-01
By PHILLIP REESE, Staff Writer 
News & Record
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.

 Contact Phillip Reese at 373-7001, or at preese@news-record.com


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To: Brian Allen
To: greasepaint
"The War Of Failed Immigration Policy"

2 Posted on 09/15/2001 02:23:28 PDT by poetknowit
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21 posted on 09/16/2001 4:08:16 AM PDT by He Rides A White Horse
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To: He Rides A White Horse, Smart Blonde, Simcha7
War of Failed Immigration Policy

Oh.

It did not fail.

It has been -- and continues to be -- successful beyond the wildest and most abjectly-Evil dreams, hopes, aspirations and imaginings of its architects.

It has been -- and is -- the Trojan Horse by way of which they have sought and continue to seek to detroy Our Fraternal Republic's very Foundations -- and take Absolute Power over every detail of our lives!

And I'd say that by any measure they are doin' great.

22 posted on 09/16/2001 4:25:33 AM PDT by Brian Allen
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To: Brian Allen
It did not fail.

From the vantage point of some, I would have to concur.

23 posted on 09/16/2001 4:27:13 AM PDT by He Rides A White Horse
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To: Brian Allen
I find it hard to go on knowing there is that kind of scum breathing the same air as us. Let's hope for another famine in Niger.
24 posted on 09/16/2001 4:29:59 AM PDT by noloveforlibs
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To: Lazamataz
Derailing or dynamiting a train with many chem. cars would be a terrorist objective. At this point these Islamic terrorist scum have a hard time buying explosives in the USA. It's a lot easier to hijack a fuel laden jet ....or used to be
25 posted on 09/16/2001 4:31:53 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: Brian Allen
It has been -- and continues to be -- successful beyond the wildest and most abjectly-Evil dreams, hopes, aspirations and imaginings of its architects.

Bears repeating...

26 posted on 09/16/2001 4:32:53 AM PDT by metesky
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To: metesky
Bit of a worry, eh?
27 posted on 09/16/2001 4:33:57 AM PDT by Brian Allen
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To: tobygan
Key Resources conducted a thorough background check on Moussa, but found nothing to indicate that he was in the country illegally, Medlin said.

I'd say they need to review their background check policy.

28 posted on 09/16/2001 4:36:55 AM PDT by JimVT
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To: tobygan
As a resident of North Carolina and knowing its residents as I do, I am floored that some good ol' boys didn't take his sorry ass out back and thump 'im like a ripe melon.
29 posted on 09/16/2001 4:37:56 AM PDT by RightOnline
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To: RightOnline
The weekend is still young.
30 posted on 09/16/2001 4:43:20 AM PDT by Howlin
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To: noloveforlibs
Now that every African gummint is in the hands of the pre-stone-aged -- that is a forgone conclusion.
31 posted on 09/16/2001 5:02:27 AM PDT by Brian Allen
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To: tobygan
Winter of '73 I worked in a restaurant in SLC, UT. There was a young Ethiopian temp who worked there on a green card. He was saving money so he could go back to Ethiopia and "kill capitalists." He carried Mao's little red book to work every day in his shirt pocket and read it during breaks.

Later, when Haile Selassie's regime fell, I wondered if that little scumbag had been a part of it all.

We, as a nation and a people, have been too naive, too trusting - our borders too open...

32 posted on 09/16/2001 5:22:07 AM PDT by mfulstone
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To: tobygan
On Thursday, he was fired, arrested and told he would be deported.
Gotta love that prompt action. I hope he is out of the country by Monday. If the US is so bad, let's see how he likes returning to his native land.
33 posted on 09/16/2001 5:29:39 AM PDT by Scutter
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To: tobygan
Good post. In Plano TX the Community College here as a large number of Arab students from overseas attending. A friend who has a child attending said a group of Arabs were celebrating on campus in the hours following the WTC/Pentagon bombing.

I pay taxes to support the College District here and I'll be damned if I'm going to pay them another dime if they don't expel the students who showed a blatant disrespect for the country that is helping them to achieve their goals in life. Ungrateful bastards.

34 posted on 09/16/2001 5:37:53 AM PDT by nagdt
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To: RightOnline
Ashcroft and the FBI would be after you for a "hate crime".
35 posted on 09/16/2001 5:38:49 AM PDT by tobygan
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To: Lazamataz
I say, don't fire the guy. Have him show up to work. Pat him down for weapons first, then release him into the job site.

I prefer strip & full body cavity search, myself.

On a completely unrelated topic, I understand chemical plants are one of the more dangerous workplace environments.

Yes, but do we really want to turn him into the Joker?

36 posted on 09/16/2001 5:46:14 AM PDT by AmishDude
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To: blaster88
The best thing about the stupid is that they are often a self solving problem.

Ain't that the truth. He's lucky he wasn't in the middle of a nasty acid "accident" while working at that chemical supply warehouse.

37 posted on 09/16/2001 6:42:44 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: tobygan
Moussa has to be total a#$%^le, and mega-stupid one, if he had the guts to work illegaly AND to celebrate in public!!! There are many illegal workers everywhere in the World, well, but they normally stay quiet not to annoy the people around - well, I wish all the enemies were dumb like that!
38 posted on 09/16/2001 6:43:50 AM PDT by konva
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To: tobygan
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.

Buh-bye.

39 posted on 09/17/2001 12:29:14 PM PDT by xm177e2
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Crazy Muslim walking around in fatigues celebrating terror attacks on your country... Can you say "hostile work environment?"
40 posted on 09/17/2001 12:30:12 PM PDT by xm177e2
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