Posted on 09/13/2002 8:21:33 PM PDT by bootless
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:01:15 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
NAPLES, Florida (CNN) --The Georgia woman who prompted Friday's terror scare was "flat-out lying" when she told authorities she overheard three Muslim men at a restaurant laughing about September 11 and making suspicious comments, one of the men said late Friday.
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Two of the three are naturalized citizens. The other is on a visa.
They're all citizens. from the article:
Gheith, a Palestinian born in Jordan, is a naturalized U.S. citizen who now lives in Chicago, Illinois. Butt was also born in Jordan and is a naturalized U.S. citizen living in Chicago. Choudhary was born in Detroit, Michigan, and now lives in the Kansas City, Missouri, area.
I never said they were cooperative. I said the media first reported they were no cooperative then reported that they were.
That is the most ignorant and biased statement I have seen here on FR in quite some time.
Normally, the fact that no violations were found would be construed as consistent with innocence.
You seem to be taking these guys' words as absolute truth. The suspect said that's the only way he was being "uncooperative." How do you know that's true?
I also heard one of the law enforcement officials at one of the press briefings yesterday SAY that at least one of the plates did not match the vehicle. It was later explained exactly what vehicle it did match. It was never explained how the tag that clearly matched a specific vehicle ended up on that car. I think that overlooking this fact is part of some decision to let these people go. I think it is highly suspect that they suddenly "discovered" that they were wrong about the tag.
Normally, that's true. However, given 9/11 and Eunice Stone's statements (in which she admitted that maybe she was getting her chain yanked), suspicions were raised.
Sorry these boys were inconvenienced, but maybe they've learned a valuable lesson.
Lawyer hired by CAIR ?
Instead of doing the right thing, and apoligizing to the woman, and commending her for doing the right thing; they are doing the Muslim thing. The Muslim thing is to deny any trace of guilt, and attack the accuser.
The scarey thing is that Muslims understand political correctness better than most Americans. They will use PC as a tool against us, to silence anyone who dares stand up to them.
I think the woman who reported them should get an award from Homeland Security, and her actions should be encouraged.
However, during the course of the investigation someone told the media that the plates were stolen and they blew through the toll booth. The fact that the media put this stuff on the air doesn't make the investigators wrong for subsequently reporting the facts correctly.
It does make a case for not jumping to conclusions based on media reports. A case can also be made that if the subsequent facts fail to support your original conclusion, it might be time to reconsider your position.
LIkely working as auto mechanics and burger slingers because they went to public school and didn't receive a good enough education to even get into college, let alone medical school. That, and I'm sure many of those who are college educated were victims of diversity selection.
As I said before if they were yanking her chain, the jokes on them and they got what they learned.
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