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...police department of Portland, Ore., was the first to refuse to cooperate, arguing that its state laws do not allow officers to ask about anything other than a person's knowledge of criminal activities; the Justice Department memo requested interviewees to give their families' phone numbers, their reaction to terrorism and their travel history. Police departments in several other Oregon cities also refused to participate, and those in most cities in California's Bay Area say they probably won't cooperate if asked. "We would not do INS interviews or roundups given the facts we have now," says San Jose...
...certain unease about assisting federal authorities in such an undertaking. While they want to fulfill their patriotic desire to assist the investigation of the Sept. 11 attacks, the police do not want to overstep their moral boundaries by violating our civil liberties. In fact, the police department of Portland, Ore. was the first to refuse to cooperate with federal officials when it decided not to participate in the interviewing of Middle Eastern immigrants because of the racial profiling it entailed...
...enforcement officers in at least one U.S. city have taken a stand against what they consider a breach of the state constitution. The Portland, Ore. police department told federal agents last week its agents will not participate in a systematic inquisition of local residents or visitors of Arab descent, although the state attorney general has announced that state police officers are not barred from taking part in the interviews...
...Mohamed Atta, the suspected ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks, fly the day before from New York to Portland, Maine? The answer may be getting clearer in the wake of the feds' domestic shutdown last week of Al-Barakaat, a financial network based in Dubai--with at least six U.S. storefronts--accused of financing Osama bin Laden. The purported purpose of the U.S. sites was for Somali emigres to wire money back home. But two senior Bush Administration officials tell TIME that bin Laden was an Al-Barakaat founder and that Al-Barakaat's chief, Ahmed Nur Ali Jamale, steered...
...where does Atta fit in? Investigators say an official of Al-Barakaat's Boston outlet opened an account last year at a Key Bank in Portland and later sent $920,000 overseas. Now they are trying to determine whether Atta had access...