FBI Looking to Recruit Arabs

Associated Press ^ | May 30, 2002 | WAYNE PARRY

[Dialup Llama]

>"Are these people going to be used as pawns against the community?" asked Hani Awadallah,

Yes. The era of jihadist clear sailing the in the US is over Hani.

[swarthyguy]

Will they wear wires if they are asked to? Sounds like a great opportunity for slick alqaeda sympathisers to throw monkeywrenches in any investigations.

[Dialup Llama]

>After community leaders and residents complained about the tone and manner of questioning,

Possibly something to do with the fact that members of your 'community' murdered 3,000 people with promises of more to follow.

[Maceman]

I think this will not work. Better to have a presumptive deportation program for all non-citizen middle easterners, with a very limited number of exemptions available to those who meet certain criteria and can pass a rigorous screening process.

[swarthyguy]

"Why didn't they ask us before Sept. 11?" he said

Sheesh! It's a free country; you joined the military or law enforcement if you wanted to. What an attitude!

[HiTech RedNeck]

ping

[Pyro7480]

They are probably going to recruit more Christian Arabs than Muslim Arabs, since most Arabs in the U.S. are the Marionite Christians from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, etc. and Copts from Egypt. They came here to escape persecution by the Muslims.

[detsaoT]

...said Ali Erikenoglu, 40, an American-born Turk who...

Ok, I'm confused. Is he American, or is he a Turk? Why the heck did we EVER allow political correctness to take hold in this country? It makes communicating so difficult.

<sarcasm>Hey Ali: If you don't want to be an American, we'd be happy to send you to wherever you'd be happy. After all, we're always concerned about your HAPPINESS and SELF-ESTEEM here...</sarcasm>

;) ttt

[Drango]

Last night on TV was a review of "Code Talkers", the story of 400 Navajo Indians who went to war in the pacific to help their country win.

I'd like to see 4,000 Arabs, Muslims, Pakistanis, Afgans, etc. helping out their adopeted home country.

[TADSLOS]

"Sure, people will have reservations," said Mohamed Younes, the group's president. "But we are part of this community -- all of it. You can't complain that someone doesn't know you or understand you if you don't make an effort to teach them. We are as American as anybody else, and this country's problems are our problems, too."

First of all, the FBI already has one Arab muslim agent who refuses to interrogate his own kind. Secondly, I don't need or want to be taught anything about Islam that I don't already know. Thirdly, if they are as American as anybody else why aren't they forthcoming about what they knew prior to 9-11 and what they know now? These people are NOT to be trusted and the FBI risks our national security further by taking this approach.

[My Identity]

PROBLEM:
Muslim FBI Agent Refuses to Wear a Wire
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/687508/posts
"Muslims don't tape Muslims," he says.

[ijcr]

The Japanese American Creed

I am proud that I am an American citizen of Japanese ancestry, for my Very background makes me appreciate more fully the wonderful advantages of this Nation. I believe in her institutions, ideals and traditions; I glory in her heritage; I boast of her history; I trust in her future- She has granted me liberties and opportunities such as no individual enjoys in this world today. She has given me an education befitting kings. She has entrusted me with the responsibilities of the franchise. She has permitted me to build a home to earn a livelihood, to worship, think, speak, and act as I please -- as a free man equal to every other man.

Although some individuals may discriminate against me, I shall never become bitter or lose faith, for I know that such persons are not representative of the majority of the American people. True, I shall do all in my power to discourage sue practices, but I shall do it in the American way - above board, in the open, through courts of law, by education, by proving myself to be worthy of equal treatment and consideration. I am firm in my belief that American sportsmanship and attitude of fair play will judge citizenship and patriotism on the basis of action and achievement, and not on the basis of physical characteristics.

Because I believe in America, and I trust she believes in me, and because I have received innumerable benefits from her, I pledge myself to do honor to her at all times and in all places; to support her constitution; to obey her laws; to respect her flag; to defend her against all enemies, foreign or domestic; to actively assume my duties as a citizen, cheerfully and without any reservations whatsoever, in the hope that I may become a better American in a greater America.

-- Mike Masaoka (as read before the United States Senate and printed in the Congressional Record, May 9, 1941) .

The Japanese were interned-- truly a mistake, however, in the light of those days the fears of Americans can be understood.The Arabic Americans face no such mass internment will we read a newspaper editorial holding similar sentiments.

[bloggerjohn]

Why not just hire a bunch of Mossad retirees? You don't have to hire dubious Arabs, and they probably know Arabic better anyway.

[aristeides]

One of the students in my Romanian class at the Defense Language Institute in 1969 was an FBI agent. I hope the FBI is sending several agents to DLI to learn Arabic. They'd be more likely to be willing to wear wires on Moslems than Moslems that the FBI hires.

[bloggerjohn]

And the Navaho volunteered to "code talk" despite a lot of mistreatment at the hands of the BIA and the government.

[cynicom]

Lets try some Danes or Icelanders, or whatever. The FBI is in the running for stupidest agency in the government service.

[cynicom]

Truly a mistake???? Unfortunate perhaps, mistake, no, given the circumstances. Three Japanese-Americans on Dec. 7 were given an opportunity to stand for their adopted country, they chose to go with their blood brothers and betrayed the United States. The internment did not happen in a vacumn or without cause.

[John H K]

Talk about your idiot reporter. Article is about recruiting Arabs, and the only person they talk to is a Turk.

I'll bet money ol' Wayne Perry is actually completely unaware Turks aren't Arabs.

[Dan Day]

"Are these people going to be used as pawns against the community?" asked Hani Awadallah, president of the Paterson-based Arab-American Civic Organization.

Well, Hani, that depends -- do you consider vicious terrorists to be part of your "community", or not?