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FBI Abuses some Kurds in U.S.
30.3.2006
By Steve Verdon |
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Max Sawicky points to what
appears to be a pretty horrible abuse of power by
the F.B.I.
The following is something that has not hit the
media at all, other than a story in the Harrisonburg
Daily News-Record that simply repeated FBI
propaganda about this awful case.
Harrisonburg, Virginia happens to have one of
the largest enclaves of Iraqi Kurdish population in
the US. They all came in the late 1990s to flee from
Saddam Hussein’s regime after working for pro-US
NGOs and having their lives threatened. They
applauded at the fall of Saddam.
However, four of them have been arrested for
transferring funds to their families and charitable
organizations in Iraqi Kurdistan without a license,
a felony offense under the Patriot Act and the act
to keep Cubans from sending money to their relatives
in Cuba. One has been convicted in a trial in which
most of the evidence was not allowed and in which
the FBI suggested that the defendant was a
terrorist. These people were cowed into not talking
to the media, and now they are all in deep trouble.
Their homes have been raided, their money seized,
even things like medical insurance cards (with one
wife pregnant), applications for citizenship are
off, they are facing deportation, and so on. They
were assigned a Croatian translator for the court.
There is a serious string of outrages associated
with this with no coverage by any serious media. The
FBI agent in charge even told them, “I know you are
not the bad guys, but too much paperwork has gone
forward on this.”
If you are interested in helping these people out,
the following are contacts.
Kakahama Askery and Christi Kramer
540-433-1134
christikramer@yahoo.com
Mike Medley
540-432-4051
rm_medley@hotmail.com
Eileen Magruder
540-433-3930
eileenmagruder@yahoo.com
Ruth Stoltzfus Jost
540-564-2524
rjost@rosettastone.com
Unfortunately this is what we are coming to in
America right now, the FBI trying to prove it is
fighting terrorism after all the revelations of its
incompetence, and violating peoples' human rights.
http://maxspeak.org/mt/archives/002101.html
UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE - WESTERN
DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA
Press Release - 30 JAN 2006
Press Release - 21 OCT 2005
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