-Caveat Lector-
Dec 30, 1999 - 09:58 PM
Armed Anti-Terrorist Teams Sweep Into
Communities Across U.S.
By Catherine Ivey
Associated Press Writer
BOSTON (AP) - With a police helicopter hovering overhead, FBI
agents, police, and immigration officials chased an Algerian man
through a city neighborhood Thursday.
As he was grabbed by authorities, Mouai Badredine yelled at
television cameras that he was "just a person that wanted to go
home to Algeria - that's it."
Meanwhile, in New York, heavily armed anti-terrorist teams were
raiding a working class Brooklyn neighborhood to arrest another
man.
"It was total chaos. There were SWAT teams, bomb sniffing dogs.
They were all here," said Joe VanDusky Jr., 25, who was just
arriving for work at an electrical supply store around the corner.
In cities from Boston to San Francisco, dozens of people were
detained Thursday in a nationwide sweep by federal agents trying
to build a case against Algerian Ahmed Ressam, arrested in
Washington state earlier this month and charged with smuggling
explosives into the country from Canada on Dec. 14.
Ramiro Escudero, an FBI spokesman in Los Angeles, said the
people being questioned there were those officials believed might
have information about Ressam.
"It does not mean they are involved in any terrorist activities," he
said.
A spokesman for the Washington, D.C.-based American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee said authorities were overreacting
to the possibility of terrorism and are treating some people
differently because of their ethnicity.
"We've sort of passed over from the stage of heightened vigilance
into the stage where people's ethnic identity becomes suspect in
and of itself," said Hussein Ibish. "People of Arab ethnicity who are
being held on routine visa violations - the most mundane types of
arrest - are being treated as potential terrorists."
Some of the individuals questioned were arrested on immigration
charges.
Badredine, 24, was one of five men arrested in Boston. He and two
others were held on civil charges related to their immigration
status; two were arrested on criminal charges, including having
false green cards and illegal entry into the United States,
according to federal officials.
The man arrested in Brooklyn, Abdel Ghani, was charged with
concealing his material support for Ressam. A criminal complaint
alleges he traveled to Seattle to meet with Ressam and had
planned to help him raise money.
Three other men detained during the Brooklyn raid were
questioned by authorities to establish their immigration status. It
was unclear if any of them would be charged with a crime,
authorities said.
New York and Boston officials said no specific threats had been
made, but that the operation was part of an aggressive campaign
to protect against terrorism.
"The FBI, in concert with other federal state and local law
enforcement agencies is aggressively pursuing all information and
leads we received in hopes of preventing any potential acts of
violence," said special agent Barry Mawn, who is in charge of the
FBI's Boston office.
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