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Friends of Ahmed will be Friends of Larry for 7-10 days |
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by Zach
Email: zach (nospam) ucimc.org (unverified!) |
02 Jun 2002
Modified: 16 Jul 2002 |
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This is the latest press release from the Friends of Ahmed explaining the need to back off on political protest in Ahmed's support for a period of 7-10 days so that he can secure his peaceful release from the country. |
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See also:
http://ucimc.org/larry
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Hope this strategy doesn't backfire. |
by Anna
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02 Jun 2002
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Sadly, "Larry's" strategy is not only risky, but may actually backfire, with traumatic consequences -- even if the government grants voluntary departure. Here's why.
All reports from civil liberities and immigration rights groups about Arab and South Asian residents detained by the INS in the wake of 911 confirm a particular "carrot and stick" pattern to the treatment prisoners receive in detention. Subjecting detainees to isolation -- and more importantly, threatening them with indefinite incarceration under even harsher prison conditions -- is often used to badger prisoners into "cooperating." If the prisoner 'agrees,' government interogators -- in exchange for a promise of voluntary departure -- then proceed to milk the detainee for information...often much of it seemingly irrelevant to the case at hand. The interogators do this in order to develop leads that might be useful in future investigations, build patterns of data, or acquire information that might be useful in intellegence exchanges with other security agencies.
This is made even easier if the prisoner has waived his right to legal representation. Once this stage is completed, the government may grant the detainee voluntary departure -- or not, depending on the value of the info disclosed, and its utility in developing a specific criminal case under draconian new anti-terrorist statues. Certainly it bears noting that the government has shown an unfortunate pattern of reneging on promises made to prisoners.
The government also has another card to play. If U.S. interrogators believe that the detainee has held out on them, despite the prisoner's apparent willingness to cooperate, U.S. officials may actually permit voluntary departure in order to faciliate the detainee's rearrest by the security agencies of their home country at a later date...at U.S. request. These security agencies can then try to extract further information from the suspect using other means not currently considered legal or publicly sanctioned in the United States...including torture. Officials in the detainees's home country may also decide to act on their own, once the returnee has returned labeled as 'politically suspect' by US authorities.
This is not mere speculation; cases of this nature have already been documented regarding those who have accepted "voluntary" deportation to pro-U.S. Arab client regimes eager to mollify the Bush Administration (i.e., Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt). Morocco is not exempt from this list. Indeed, the Moroccan security sevices (Moukhabarat) have a proven track record of human rights abuses toward both left-wing and Islamic dissidents who are critical of the monarchy, as well as against Saharwi (Polisario) supporters.
Many of us are deeply concerned about the well-being of "Larry." Certainly we respect his right to determine the course of action for his case. We can only hope that his experience, given the conditions that he and his family have asked his supporters to honor, do not produce the tragic consequences for him that they have produced for other detainees.
Know Your Rights pamphlet available in Arabic PDF from:
http://www.nlg.org/post911/legal/KYR/rightsinfo.htm |
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Is this really happening? |
by Chris Leadbeater
tcapj (nospam) aol.com (unverified) |
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03 Jun 2002
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Do things like this really happen in US? It is unbelievable. It sounds morw like what we used to expect from Russia, or expect nowadays from Israel. Good luck from UK. |
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More Evidence 'Larry' Was Profiled, Suffered Selective Enforcement |
by ML
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03 Jun 2002
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I came across this article in the right-wing press which demonstrates the selective nature of INS immigration law enforcement and the fact that the givernment is using racial profiling in cases such as this. ML
No worries for illegal residents INS chief: It's not 'reasonable' to enforce law on those already in U.S.
Posted: June 3, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern
Editor's note: In collaboration with the hard-hitting Washington, D.C., newsweekly Human Events, WorldNetDaily brings you this special report every Monday. Readers can subscribe to Human Events through WND's online store.
By Joseph D'Agostino © 2002 Human Events
In a little-noticed statement, Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner James Ziglar has said that most of the millions of illegal aliens living in this country do not have to worry about the U.S. government enforcing the law and deporting them.
"No one likes the idea that people came into the country illegally, but it's not practical or reasonable to think that you're going to be able to round them all up and send them home," Ziglar said at a May 23 press conference that he held with Javier Moctezuma Barragan, the Mexican undersecretary of population and migrant services, and Felipe de Jesus Preciado Coronado, commissioner of Mexico's migration institute. The press conference was held at the Tucson, Ariz., Border Patrol office.
Estimates of the number of aliens living illegally in this country vary from 7 million to 11 million. The INS estimates 7-8 million.
An INS spokesman said that Ziglar merely repeated what other INS commissioners, including Clinton Commissioner Doris Meissner, have said in recent years.
"I haven't heard any controversy over his remarks," he said. "Commissioner Ziglar was recognizing the long-standing reality. The priorities for our 1,950 internal enforcement agents are deporting criminal aliens, combating trafficking. ... We don't have the resources to pull those agents away from those priorities."
The Arizona Daily Star, the only newspaper to report Ziglar's comments, paraphrased the INS director as saying that deportation of all illegal aliens would "have too severe an impact on the U.S. economy."
Spokesmen for congressional Republican leaders on immigration - House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., House immigration subcommittee Chairman George Gekas, R-Pa., and Senate immigration subcommittee ranking member Sam Brownback, R-Kan. - had no immediate reaction to Ziglar's comments during Memorial Day week, which Congress took off. The spokesmen were not aware of Ziglar's comment.
Barragan said at the press conference, "The mobility of people has been a reality throughout human history. Only by recognizing that reality, through agreements, through laws, can we avoid what is happening."
Ziglar said that he wanted to make policing the border more efficient to free up resources to focus on the most serious threats to the United States.
"We need to set up a regime where we don't have to spend so much of our time and effort in enforcement activities dealing with people who are not terrorists, who are not threats to our national security, who are economic refugees," he said.
Ziglar discussed the installation of six 30-foot beacons in the Yuma area that illegal migrants can see from up to 5 miles away. The beacons would allow the illegal immigrants to call for help from the Border Patrol - which could then deport them. Though the beacons have been up for several months, no one has yet used them. Since Oct. 1 of last year, the Border Patrol has discovered the bodies of 124 dead migrants in the mostly desert regions of its Yuma and Tucson sectors.
Ziglar also announced the use of pepperball launchers by Border Patrol agents. The weapons are supposed to disable violent migrants without hurting them, he said.
The next day, at an appearance in San Ysidro, Calif., Ziglar said that the INS would establish more commuter lanes to help people who make daily trips across the border. "If it's hard for people to move across the border fluidly, that is going to have a severe economic impact on the economy of this community," he said. He said that a system of rapid entry, with minimal inspection times, for Mexican trucks would be expanded around the country.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27813
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WEED AND SEED |
by IT HAS COME HOME TO US
(No verified email address) |
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04 Jun 2002
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WHAT DID U EXSPECT THE U.S. IS RUN BUY THE FASCIST CORPORATIONS
PRETTY SOON THEY BE ROUNDING UP ALL THOSE WHO THREATEN THEIR BOTTOM LINE, THEYVE ALREADY STARTED MAKING THE LISTS
ITS NO JOKE ITS HAPPENING
ITS TIME TO GO UNDERGROUND
FORM SMALL CELLS TO GATHER DATA ON THE MO OF THE FASCISTS AN FIND WAYS TO COUNTER THEIR OPPRESSION
TRUST NO ONE UNLESS YOU HAVE GOOD REASON TOO |
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Good Work |
by James Midgett
jray55 (nospam) hotmail.com (unverified) |
Current rating: 0
16 Jul 2002
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The website is a good idea. Governments do their most heinous deeds in secrecy. Keeping this case visible is Ahmed's best protection.
The Bush Administration is trying to keep Americans confused about the difference between activism and terrorism
This confusion is being used all over the world to silence activists.
Many many of us are not fooled. Hail to the friends of Ahmed
and the friends of people who have differing opinions. |
