CNN.com - Officials: Muslim sites subject to secret monitoring for radiation - Dec 24, 2005:
"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Since 2002 the U.S. government has been monitoring for suspicious radiation levels outside more than 100 predominantly Muslim-related sites in the greater Washington, D.C., area, as well as various sites in other cities, several government officials with knowledge of the program confirmed to CNN Friday.
One government official said the authorities don't obtain warrants because the testing is conducted from outside the buildings on what they consider public property.
An official with the Federal Bureau of Investigation said that none of the FBI's programs target gathering places of any specific segment of the population and that non-Muslim sites were also monitored for radiation. (Watch how sources say the monitoring took place nationwide -- 1:31)
A Muslim advocacy group has said that the program is 'misguided' and targets 'the wrong people.'
'It is a waste of time, it is a waste of resources and it is causing us to be concerned about our citizenship, our constitutional rights,' Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told CNN.
Several sources said the covert program is legal because the authorities conduct the testing in areas like parking lots."
Too bad the article doesn't mention that the Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR, has had terrorists and terrorist sympathisers as members, leaders, and visitors, and doesn't renounce all forms of terrorism. Some terrorism is justified they claim. People affiliated with the organization have been arrested and deported in the past as well. They are the first to pop up and say that Muslims are being harmed however, despite the fact that the American public, admirably, has refrained from anti-Muslim violence since 9/11. Many Muslims are fine people, but some support terrorism, and that's bad.
"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Since 2002 the U.S. government has been monitoring for suspicious radiation levels outside more than 100 predominantly Muslim-related sites in the greater Washington, D.C., area, as well as various sites in other cities, several government officials with knowledge of the program confirmed to CNN Friday.
One government official said the authorities don't obtain warrants because the testing is conducted from outside the buildings on what they consider public property.
An official with the Federal Bureau of Investigation said that none of the FBI's programs target gathering places of any specific segment of the population and that non-Muslim sites were also monitored for radiation. (Watch how sources say the monitoring took place nationwide -- 1:31)
A Muslim advocacy group has said that the program is 'misguided' and targets 'the wrong people.'
'It is a waste of time, it is a waste of resources and it is causing us to be concerned about our citizenship, our constitutional rights,' Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told CNN.
Several sources said the covert program is legal because the authorities conduct the testing in areas like parking lots."
Too bad the article doesn't mention that the Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR, has had terrorists and terrorist sympathisers as members, leaders, and visitors, and doesn't renounce all forms of terrorism. Some terrorism is justified they claim. People affiliated with the organization have been arrested and deported in the past as well. They are the first to pop up and say that Muslims are being harmed however, despite the fact that the American public, admirably, has refrained from anti-Muslim violence since 9/11. Many Muslims are fine people, but some support terrorism, and that's bad.
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