-Caveat Lector-
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Urgent Updates! Third Racially Motivated Murder Since S11!
Urgent Updates! Third Racially Motivated Murder Since S11!
[For more Information, please check www.ActionLA.org/S11]
Indian man shot dead in US in apparent backlash to terror attacks
Sunday September 16, 2001
WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (AFP) - An Indian man who moved to the United States 10
years ago was shot dead on the weekend by an unidentified assailant, The
Arizona Republic newspaper reported Sunday, in what looked like a misplaced
incident of revenge for the attacks on New York and the Pentagon.
Balbir Singh Sodhi, 49, was killed Saturday when a gunman driving a black
pick-up truck drove into the Mesa, Arizona service station he ran and fired
three shots. The assailant then drove on to another service station where a
Lebanese-American employee was working and to a house, firing shots but
injuring no one else.
Sodhi's brother, Harjit, told the newspaper his sibling was killed because
his dark skin, beard and turban made him look Middle Eastern, like the men
US authorities say hijacked the planes used in Tuesday's devastating
attacks. "Some people don't understand because we are different, because we
look like (Osama) bin Laden," Harjit said. "But we are not Muslim." The
Sodhis, originally from Punjab in India, belong to the Sikh religion.
The newspaper said police were trying to trace the killer. One officer,
sergeant Mike Goulet, said the murder was not being considered a racist
crime.
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A 2nd "Backlash" MURDER!
by Stop Racist Hate Crimes 1:26am Mon Sep 17 '01
A second "backlash" murder... this one involving a Pakistani immigrant in
Texas.
Published in the U.K. Independent
http://news.independent.co.uk/
September 17 2001 Asian man murdered in suspected race-hate shooting Revenge
Attacks
In Pleasant Grove, a middle-class suburb of Dallas, Waqar Hassan Choudhry,
40, was shot dead at a convenience store shortly after 10pm on Saturday
night. There was no evidence of a robbery, and local detectives told Mr
Choudhry's family they believed his killing was motivated by blind revenge.
Officially, the police were saying little. "We don't know who did it or why,
it's too early in the investigation," Sergeant Gary Kilpatrick of the Dallas
police homicide department said. "At this point, we can't prove or disprove
anything. We're looking for witnesses and checking the evidence."
But the victim's cousin, Mazhar Rehman, said yesterday he was almost
certainly killed because of his race or religion. "We feel this is more
likely to be backlash than robbery," Mr Rehman, a businessman from Glasgow,
said. "My cousin was saying that there have been other incidents in Dallas,
with people being abused or beaten up."
Mr Choudhry, married with four girls, was from Karachi and had been in
America for 10 years. He had recently moved to Dallas from Edison, New
Jersey, home to one of the east coast's largest Pakistani communities, to run
the petrol station with another immigrant.
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Egyptian Grocer MURDERED in L.A.!
by Stop Racist Attacks 9:42am Tue Sep 18 '01
A 3rd. "backlash" murder has taken place. An Egyptian Grocer in San Gabriel
is the latest victim to fall to hate.
KCBS (Channel 2)
Tuesday September 18 2001
Grocer's Murder Investigated As Hate Crime
The fatal shooting Saturday of a neighborhood grocer of Egyptian descent in
San Gabriel will be investigated by the FBI as a possible hate crime, an
agent said Monday.
"We are going to be opening that case as a hate crime," Matt McLaughlin, of
the FBI's Los Angeles office, told news wires. "If they haven't already
started the investigation, it will be soon."
Adel Karas, 48, of Arcadia, was fatally shot about 3:15 p.m. Saturday at
International Market, 1381 E. Las Tunas Drive. Although Karas' family told
reporters they feared he was killed because his attackers thought he might be
Muslim -- he was a Coptic Christian from Egypt.
McLaughlin said he was not familiar with the evidence that prompted the FBI
to get involved, but speculated that the bureau wanted to "err on the side of
caution." FBI Director Robert Mueller told reporters in Washington that since
World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, there have been dozens of
retaliatory hate crimes directed at members of the Arab-American community
nationwide.
Sheriff's deputies are seeking three suspects, two of whom entered the store,
confronted the owner and shot him in the upper body, Bottomley said. The
suspects fled in a copper-colored Honda driven by a third suspect.
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