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...course, were Arab Americans, many of whom suffered that day and have suffered since from a special pressure and scrutiny from neighbors and strangers alike. Jamal Baadani, a staff sergeant in the Marine Corps who was born to Yemenite parents and raised in both Egypt and Michigan, knows this intimately. "I was out to dinner with one of my fellow Marines in uniform," he says, "and someone went up to me and started talking to me about what was going on, and she said, 'Yeah, those Arabs are all knuckleheads,' not realizing I was one. And another day, a woman...
Other Muslims who had studied in the Philippines maintained links there. It was from Manila that Ramzi Yousef, the convicted mastermind behind the first World Trade Center bombing, hatched a plan to blow up 12 American airliners as they flew over the Pacific. In the mid-1990s, Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, married to one of bin Laden's sisters, allegedly funded Islamic schools in the south of the country, where Muslim insurgents have been fighting for years. The Filipino government has long claimed that Abu Sayyaf, the most bloodthirsty of the groups--its specialty is beheadings--has been supported...
Allan Haber, Salim's lawyer in the conspiracy case, says the prosecution's portrayal of Salim as a key bin Laden operative all comes down to the credibility of the government witness Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl and "whether or not you can believe a man who says he is a devout Muslim but steals money from his boss and tries to sell information to the government of Israel." (Al-Fadl sought protection with U.S. investigators after he embezzled $100,000 from bin Laden.) The government says al-Fadl's testimony is accurate and can be corroborated...
...services have homed in on Arab men as potential terrorists, the organizers could shift to Asian Muslims - Filipinos, Malaysians, Indonesians. Security officials in Europe and Asia profess concerns about al-Qaeda links to the Philippines? Abu Sayyaf group. Philippine officials acknowledge that bin Laden?s brother-in-law Mohamad Jamal Khalifa served as a financial backer for Abu Sayyaf up to 1994. Two months ago the government rejected his offer to help crush the movement...
...Other Muslims who had studied in the Philippines maintained links there. It was from Manila that Ramzi Yousef, the convicted mastermind behind the first World Trade Center bombing, hatched a plan to blow up 12 American airliners as they flew over the Pacific. In the mid-1990s, Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, married to one of bin Laden's sisters, allegedly funded Islamic schools in the south of the country, where Muslim insurgents have been fighting for years. The Filipino government has long claimed that Abu Sayyaf, the most bloodthirsty of the groups-its specialty is beheadings-has been supported...