Teachers and Classmates Express Outrage at Arrest of Girl, 16, as a Terrorist Threat

[2pac Shakur]

At Heritage High School in East Harlem, where the student idiom is hip-hop and salsa, the 16-year-old Guinean girl stood out, but not just because she wore Islamic dress. She was so well liked that when she ran for student body president, she came in second to one of her best friends - the Christian daughter of the president of the parent-teacher association, Deleen P. Carr.


Now Ms. Carr, a speech pathologist who calls herself "a typical American citizen," is as outraged as the girl's teachers and classmates, who have learned that the girl and another 16-year-old are being called would-be suicide bombers and are being held in an immigration detention center in Pennsylvania.

"They have painted this picture of her as this person that is trying to destroy our way of life, and I know in my heart of hearts that this is bogus," said Ms. Carr, who welcomed the Guinean girl to her house daily and knows her family well. "I feel like, how dare they? She's a minor, and even if she's not a citizen, she has rights as a human being."

According to a government document provided to The New York Times by a federal official earlier this week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has asserted that both girls are "an imminent threat to the security of the United States based on evidence that they plan to be suicide bombers." No evidence was cited, and federal officials will not comment on the case.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/09/ny...09suicide.html

With that 16 year old girl in jail, I feel so much safer.
I bolded the most important part.

[The Drunken Actuary]

Originally Posted by 2pac Shakur

With that 16 year old girl in jail, I feel so much safer.

Dude, she probably has friends they haven't found yet. I won't feel safe until I go buy some duct tape and remain vigilant.

[2pac Shakur]

I wonder if they'll raise the terror alert level?

[The Drunken Actuary]

If they just have us all tape and plastic sheeting we wouldn't need to bother with that terror alert thingy.

[whisper]

Of course - all the times a major psycho killer gets caught, the friends and neighbors never express shock that the person was a killer.

[The Drunken Actuary]

Originally Posted by whisper

Of course - all the times a major psycho killer gets caught, the friends and neighbors never express shock that the person was a killer.

BTK's neighbors didn't seem that surprised.

[Traci]

Originally Posted by The Drunken Actuary

BTK's neighbors didn't seem that surprised.

Actually most of them did.

[Malik Shabazz]

Originally Posted by 2pac Shakur

With that 16 year old girl in jail, I feel so much safer.

I know how you feel. I felt so much safer when Martha Stewart was off the streets. I've started locking the doors and barring the windows since they let her out.

[The Drunken Actuary]

Originally Posted by Traci

Actually most of them did.

The reports I read all said the neighors thought the guy was a major freakazoid.

[Malik Shabazz]

Originally Posted by whisper

Of course - all the times a major psycho killer gets caught, the friends and neighbors never express shock that the person was a killer.

"He was always such a quiet boy. He always kept to himself. Never caused any trouble."

"By the way, have you seen my cat? She seems to have run away. I can't seem to find her anywhere."