Police state miscellany

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

FBI raids immigrants' stores

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By David B. Caruso

July 9, 2002  |

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Customers usually enter Tariq Hussain's jewelry store
browsing for diamonds or gold rings. Recently, he was visited by people
looking for something much more sinister.

Hussain's Intrigue Jewelers kiosk in suburban Pittsburgh was one of several
across the nation searched by FBI agents hunting for ties to the al-Qaida
terrorist network.

"They took everything, my paperwork, bills, my computer, my checks," said
Hussain, 27, a recently discharged U.S. Army mechanic. "I told them, 'I
don't have any links to anything like that.'"

About 75 stores have been searched by investigators hoping to discover
financial backing for terrorist groups, said a law enforcement official,
speaking on the condition of anonymity.

The raids have taken place in several cities over the past two weeks,
including Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Atlanta and New York. Dozens of
foreigners, mostly from Pakistan, have been detained or questioned.

full: http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2002/07/09/fbi_raids/index.html?x

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Washington Post, Wednesday, July 10, 2002; Page A01

U.S. Deported 131 Pakistanis In Secret Airlift

By Steve Fainaru
Washington Post Staff Writer

NEW YORK -- In a highly unusual airlift involving hundreds of U.S.
immigration officers, the Justice Department secretly chartered a
Portuguese jet to deport 131 Pakistani detainees who had been held for
months at INS detention facilities around the country.

A majority of the detainees, a Pakistani official said, had been arrested
under a Justice Department program to locate and apprehend immigrants who
have ignored previous deportation orders and who came under scrutiny after
the Sept. 11 attacks. None of the detainees appeared to have links to
terrorism, U.S. officials said.

full: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46826-2002Jul9.html

Louis Proyect
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