U.S. Says It Did Not Target Muslims

[MountainLaurel]

Faced with angry complaints, U.S. officials defended an anti-terrorism program yesterday that secretly tested radiation levels around the country -- including at more than 100 Muslim sites in the Washington area -- and insisted that no one was targeted because of his or her faith.

One official knowledgeable about the program explained that Muslim sites were included because al Qaeda terrorists were considered likely to gravitate to Muslim neighborhoods or mosques while in the United States.

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No indications of radiation were found at the businesses, homes, warehouses or mosques that were included in the program. The official said that radiation monitoring of the Muslim sites started after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and lasted through 2003.

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Most of the testing was apparently done from nearby streets. But, according to U.S. News & World Report, in as much as 15 percent of the cases, officials had to go onto private property, such as mosque parking lots and private driveways, to get accurate readings.

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U.S. News & World Report said that some officials believed the program, which involved property occupied or owned by U.S. citizens, was legally questionable. It quoted one unidentified source as saying that participants who complained "nearly lost their jobs."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/28/AR2005122801520.html

So, following the firebombing of the women's clinic in Shreveport, did the ATF go poking around churches in that area with bomb-sniffing dogs?

[BushOut06]

1. They're following the WWJD philosophy

What would Jack Bauer Do?

[MountainLaurel]

3. Is Jack Bauer a neocon security expert? n/t

[BushOut06]

4. I dunno, but he does show a propensity to ignore rules

If you've watched any of the shows, his character is often bypassing rules that "get in the way".

[MountainLaurel]

5. Shows?

Help a girl out here: Who is he?

[BushOut06]

6. It's the show '24' on FOX

Jack Bauer plays a counter-terrorism agent in the show. In previous seasons, he's stopped a presidential assassination, biological attack, and nuclear attack. In the last season, he and his strike team illegally broke into a Chinese consulate in order to 'extract' a Chinese citizen who had information about the wherabouts of a nuclear missile.

[MountainLaurel]

7. Thanks!

I don't do much TV except for cooking shows, some occasional CSI, and PBS. Sounds like he's a busy guy, fighting all those baddies who hate us for our freedoms.

[warrior1]

2. they have

lost any credibility they had. Well they never had any with me, so it's way in to negative zero territory.