Two 16 Year Old Girls Rotting in the Homeland Gulag for an Essay

[chlamor]

By Ted Rall 

04/27/05 - - They've vanished into the netherworld of a Homeland Security gulag and their story has already disappeared from the headlines, but the shocking case of two 16-year-old girls from New York City arrested a month ago ought to inspire outrage among every American worthy of the name. Since the government's reasons for the girls' imprisonment could apply to virtually any teenager, it should also spark fear. 

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Without a warrant, NYPD detectives and federal agents burst into the girl's home--no wonder they don't have time to look for Osama!--where they "searched her belongings and confiscated her computer and the essays that she had written as part of a home schooling program," say her family. "One essay concerned suicide... asserted that suicide is against Islamic law." The family is Bangladeshi. They are Muslim. That, coupled with the mere mention of suicide bombing in her essay, was enough to put the fuzz on high alert. 

Although she is conservative and devout, the girl and her parents vigorously deny that she is an Islamist extremist (not that such opinions are illegal), but this is post-9/11 America and post-9/11 America is out of its mind. 

Based solely on an essay written by one of the two, the FBI says both girls are "an imminent threat to the security of the United States based upon evidence that they plan to become suicide bombers." But the feds admit that they have no evidence to back their suspicions. Nothing. 

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8675.htm

[SouthernDem2004]

1. Do you have another link to the actual story?

This article does not mention any names so I could not find anything.

Also, he mentions that the mother went to the Police because the daughter "defied her authority." He then states the Police and FBI showed up at her house. Um, The FBI does not show up because a child is uncontrollable. Something is missing in this story....

[lenidog]

2. Are you sure this story is reliable?

I mean its not that I don't think that this is totally possible. Its just that the story doesn't read like Ted Rall wrote it.

[mcscajun]

6. I recall reading about this in the NY Times last month.

Here's a link from the Sacramento Paper...by now it's in the Times' archives, which you have to pay to access.

http://sacunion.com/pages/nation/articles/3834

Also in USA Today:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-04-07-teens-held_x.htm?csp=34

[Lone Pawn]

3. The FBI said that, eh?

Where? When? Do we have an actual source, or is this just bullshit?

[smirkymonkey]

4. Just when I think America can't possibly get any more fucked up

than it already is....:banghead:

[Gyre]

5. effin scum-sucking hessians

All too young and/or brainwashed to realize, or care that they're committing high crimes and treasons against the People of this country. Too stupid to realize that their allegiance (by the oaths they take is to the US Constitution, not some fuck-faced little pricks who like to pound on bibles in public). Fuck those little storm-troopers and the little grey chimp-suckers who're giving them their orders to break trust w/ the American people. Mindless, souless, drones all gussied-up in their carbon-fiber corsets.

Gyre

[SouthernDem2004]

7. Article does not make sense.

[chlamor]

9. Nothing Makes Sense-Everything is 180

This stuff is nothing, check into what is happening with the "Bio-Terrorist" professors/artists. Standard stuff." It couldn't happen here"

COINTELPRO



FBI Held Teens in NYC Suicide Bombing Plan
The Associated Press
Published: April 7, 2005

NEW YORK—Two 16-year-old girls from New York City have been arrested on immigration charges after federal authorities said they planned to become suicide bombers, according to a published report.

The teenagers were arrested March 24 and were being held in a detention center in Leesport, Pa., The New York Times reported Thursday, citing a government document provided by a federal agent.

According to the document, the FBI found that the girls posed “an imminent threat to the security of the United States based upon evidence that they plan to be suicide bombers,” the Times said.

The evidence was not described in the document.

Manny Van Pelt, a spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, would confirm only that two juveniles had been arrested on “administrative immigration violations” and remained in custody.

The girls—one from Bangladesh, one from Guinea—were living in the United States illegally, the Times reported.

http://sacunion.com/pages/nation/articles/3834

[mcscajun]

8. Links that may flesh things out a bit...or not...

...depending on what you're looking for...\


Sacramento Union

http://sacunion.com/pages/nation/articles/3834

USA Today:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-04-07-teens-held_x.htm?csp=34