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...shelter as a fellow Muslim, even if they would urge him to leave. They say that a wounded al-Qaeda fighter turned up last week and was given food and money. "People did not inform the authorities," says Hasan Mehmood, who lives in the village of Naryab. "This Arab left the same night...
...Arab American, I was deeply saddened by your article "Rough Justice," reporting the humiliation many Middle Easterners and Muslims have experienced following the Sept. 11 events. Are U.S. government interviews of 5,000 men and women in Arab-American and Muslim communities the best way to crack down on terrorism? As if the hatred, threats and discrimination Arabs and Muslims have experienced since Sept. 11 weren't enough, are we now to be humiliated by our own government? Sept. 11 should be no excuse for Ashcroft to use ethnic profiling in the campaign against terrorism. RANIA HAMMOUD Dearborn, Mich...
Without seeking the approval of or even consulting Congress, Bush has significantly increased the powers of federal law enforcement, shrunk the attorney-client privilege for those suspected of being terrorists and detained thousands of Arab men without due process. He has granted himself the power to try terrorist suspects in secret military tribunals rather than in open civilian court, and he has signed orders eliminating some of the restrictions governing the conduct of CIA operatives abroad. He even signed an order making it more difficult for historians to get access to presidential papers...
...approval ratings. Bush's plan to drop yellow food packages along with all the ordnance was designed to reinforce the message that this was not a war on the Afghan people. Some Islamic extremists took to the street and torched effigies of the President, but by and large the Arab world, not to mention Saddam Hussein, was quiet. Bush, however, was impatient. The special forces charged with pinpointing targets for bomber pilots were slow to take up their positions. And the Northern Alliance, on which the CIA's Tenet had staked so much of his plan, looked...
...obscure art of Arabic translating got a workout last week as two news organizations released new versions of the Osama bin Laden tape. The State Department translation was a collaboration among several experts that left a lot of holes as "unintelligible." But experts hired by ABC and CNN have since reviewed the text. Among the revelations from the new passages: bin Laden names nine of the hijackers; he told followers to listen to the radio for a news bulletin hours before the attacks; and the sheik being honored at the dinner that night was sneaked into Afghanistan by a member...