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...points: a new measure that allows the government to listen in on conversations between some suspects and their attorneys, the detaining of more than 500 people nationwide without publicly revealing their identities or the charges against most of them, and the ongoing interrogation of 5,000 people within the Arab-American or Muslim communities...
...police chiefs have said they?ll do it - anything to help crack down on terrorism. Others, like Detroit Police Chief Charles Wilson, have asked the feds to sit down with him and figure out an effective way to do this without upsetting the Muslim community. Thursday, Wilson met with Arab-American community leaders, an Arab-American deputy in his department and the local assistant U.S. attorney. His goal was to find the best way to ease the community?s fears while helping the feds do their job. He's training his officers how to handle this sensitively. Still...
...attorneys in Michigan, a state with one of the largest Arab-American populations in the country, have tried to ease fears by sending letters to all the men on their list inviting them to the interviews and saying it can take place wherever they choose. But in Oregon three cities have refused or are considering refusing, saying the whole thing smells of racial profiling. "Give us some legitimate reason to talk to the people - other than that they're from the Middle East - and we'll be glad to," Eugene police spokeswoman Pam Alejandere told reporters. The feds are starting...
...refuse to believe that the Justice Department has no better means of investigating the attacks than blanket canvassing. This measure will be successful only in alienating and offending the Arab-American community by presuming, without any investigative efforts to determine whether such suspicion is warranted, that all Middle Eastern young men should be questioned about terrorist activities. Is the next step a letter to all Muslims...
However, the policy could be more than merely ineffective—it could make the Justice Department’s job in investigating terrorism even more difficult. Collins’ letter may cause the Arab-American community to become more insular. By setting a blind ‘witch-hunting’ tone to the handling of the cases, the U.S. Attorney’s Office will offend recipients and make them less likely to respond or to cooperate with authorities...