HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- 350 revenge crimes after September
11
Duncan Campbell in Los
Angeles
Wednesday June 26, 2002 The Guardian At least 350 crimes, including bomb
plots, have been committed against people of Middle Eastern origin or appearance
in retaliation for the September 11 attacks, according to the US justice
department.
Eighty prosecutions have been brought in relation to the crimes, which also
include shootings and vandalism. In one case, two members of a Jewish extremist
group have been charged over an alleged plot to blow up a mosque, as well as the
office of an Arab-American congressman.
President Bush condemned the attacks when they first started to occur
immediately after September 11 and assistant attorney general Ralph Boyd told
the House of Representatives' judiciary committee yesterday that such crimes
were being closely monitored by federal agents.
"The incidents have consisted of telephone, internet, mail and face-to-face
threats, minor assaults, as well as assaults with dangerous weapons," Mr Boyd
added.
One Islamic group yesterday welcomed the official response to the crimes. "We
have found the government to be extraordinarily cooperative," Ibrahim Hooper, a
spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said. "They have
followed up on crimes we have reported and they often call us to check on
incidents that we put out information on in our public releases."
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