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|TH I'- BATTALION Monday, September 16, 2002
[Terror arrests deepen uneasiness
among Muslims in New York
■LACKAWANNA, N.Y. (AP) —
Clinching a shortwave radio tuned to an
Aitabic music station in Kuwait, Hassan
M|ihsen talked at length about the lure of
immigrant life in the United States before
his mood suddenly darkened.
■ “Thank God we’re in America, the sys
tem is good and fair, but there is ignorance
also,” said the 53-year-old retired steel
worker. “Since yesterday I heard it three
times: ‘Go home!”’
■ Five men from Lackawanna’s Yemeni
community were arrested and accused of
aiding the terrorists who planned the Sept.
11 attacks. The men — all U.S. born —
were charged Saturday with providing sup
port and resources to foreign terrorist
organizations.
■ Now, the town’s Yemeni-Americans
must contend with suspicion and hostility
from some of their non-Yemeni neighbors.
■ “I had no suspicion before, not even
when 9/11 happened,” said Anne Vertino,
34, as she sat outside her mother’s house
across the street from a shuttered grocery
store where FBI agents arrested one of the
suspects in raids Friday night and early
Saturday.
I “But knowing what happened and
they’re your neighbors in a small city, def
initely you’re going to treat them different
and wonder what’s going on. It's not the
women I worry about or the children, it’s
the men,” she said.
Federal authorities say the five men
trained at an al-Qaida camp in Afghanistan
where Osama bin Laden spoke about his
anti-American beliefs before returning
home in June 2001 to Lackawanna, a sub
urb of Buffalo on the shore of Lake Erie.
Officials said they had no information the
alleged terror cell was planning an attack in
the United States.
Charged Saturday were Shafal Mosed,
24; Faysal Galab, 26; Sahim Alwan, 29;
Yasein Taher, 24; and Yahya Goba, 25. The
men all lived within blocks of each other in
Lackawanna.
Peter Ahearn, special agent in charge of
the FBI’s Buffalo field office, said he wor
ries the Yemeni community will be ostra
cized, but said hate crimes would not be
tolerated.
“The role of the FBI is twofold,” he
said. “One is that we're going to conduct
investigations of any terrorists, Muslim or
not. That’s our job. The other side of the
coin, and we dealt with this right after 9/11,
is that we investigate civil rights.”
About 1,000 Yemenis live in
Lackawanna, working mostly in the fading
steel industry at a galvanizing plant, a Ford
plant or an aluminum producer.
Crouching next to the Lackawanna
Islamic Center mosque, a 30-year-old man
who identified himself only as Abdullah
said the neighborhood has been relatively
free of ethnic tension since Yemenis first
moved here in 1922.
“We have a good relationship around
here — blacks, whites and a little
Hispanic,” he said. “We might not know
each other personally but we know each
other by our faces.”
The atmosphere has become tense, he
acknowledged.
“We’re going to have stares here and
there, maybe a couple of words,” he said.
“What are you going to do? Are you going
to fight, argue with people? You’ve just got
to be patient.”
Jim Hardwick, 70, who is black and has
lived among the Yemenis for a half-century,
said he hasn't changed his view of his
neighbors.
“That's five (men) out of thousands,” he
said. “I don’t have any opinion on the ones
that 1 don’t know. If I don't know ’em, I
don’t know ’em. The ones that I know, they
would never be involved in what happened.
“You can’t talk about anybody as a
group,” he added. “You have to talk about
individuals.”
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| WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Senate majority leader said
Sunday that Congress will pass
legislation before the November
elections creating a Homeland
Security Department despite a
dispute over the president’s power
to hire and fire agency workers.
I President Bush is threatening
to veto the bill, which the GOP-
led House passed and the
Democratic-control led Senate is
considering, unless it gives him
flexibility over the estimated
1|70,()0() employees that would
become part of the Cabinet
agency.
f “I can’t believe he’d veto a bill
over the issue of accountability,”
said Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D. “I
can’t believe he’d veto the bill
over the issue of politicization of
the federal work force.”
Daschle has called Bush’s pro
posal “a power grab of unprece
dented magnitude” that would
undermine the government’s non
political civil service system and
threaten labor union rights and
protections for one-third of the
workers.
[ The White House says the new
department needs broader powers
to hire, fire, promote or demote
and pay employees, and to waive
union rights in matters of national
security, to meet emerging terror
ist threats.
“We’ve put this in place for
good reason. The politicization of
the federal work force is not
something we should have, and
that’s all we’re saying now,”
Daschle said on ABC’s “This
Week.”
Despite the apparent impasse,
Daschle said: “It will get passed
before the election. I am confi
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