News FBI Phone Calls Rattle Local Pakistani Community
posted by on January 10 at 16:08 PM
According to several members of the Arab American Community Coalition (AACC), the FBI has been attempting to contact members of the Pakistani community
Amin Odeh, of the AACC, says his organization started getting calls from members of the Pakistani community, asking for legal advice. “[There is] a sense of fear in the community,” Odeh says. “Whether you’re a Muslim or an Arab, or a white American it’s concerning when you get a call from the FBI.”
Odeh says he’s been in contact with the FBI, and has been given contradictory answers about the purpose of the phone calls. “[First they said] it was about Benazir Bhutto,” Odeh says. Later, Odeh says he was told the FBI was creating an outreach program.
“Its the FBI, do you believe them, or [not]?” Odeh laughs.
Odeh says many of the Pakistanis who were contacted refused to answer questions, or flatly refused to return the FBI’s phone calls.
What’s more troubling, Odeh says, is there doesn’t appear to be any logic to who the FBI is contacting. “They’re not just going through the phone book and calling every Pakistani,” he says. “[Some of] the people they’ve contacted are not even active in the Pakistani community.”
The AACC plans to have a meeting with the FBI, but no meeting date has been set. For now, the AACC is advising people to bring a witness to any meeting, and to meet in a public place.
The FBI could not be reached for comment.
Well, if they were wiretapped by the FBI, they probably would forget to pay the bill, and AT&T would probably drop the wiretap as a result.
So, if you're rattled, just switch to AT&T and the FBI wiretaps will not be a concern, just the phone calls.
I always text them, myself. And put their texts in my SPAM bucket.
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Please refer to Harborview Mental Health if you think that the FBI is calling you
kthx
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Meet in public and bring a witness...
That's some pretty sound advice, whether you're meeting the FBI or the SPD these days.
Sad how all these people are being frightened by their own government, I know how it feels and I know it is very frightening for them.
I hope they stop those seemingly random calls soon.
Are you sure this quote is correct? It doesn't seem to make sense:
What’s more troubling, Odeh says, is there doesn’t appear to be any logic to who the FBI is contacting. “They’re not just going through the phone book and calling every Pakistani,” he says. “[Some of] the people they’ve contacted are not even active in the Pakistani community.”
I recall seeing some American Moslem leaders on TV complaining that the feds weren't calling "the Moslem community" earlier on.
Look, we got feds. Are they supposed to call the community leaders, or ignore them?
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