Jun. 17th, 2005

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16-year-old Muslim girl from Queens thought to be potential suicide bomber; forced to leave America

It is not known what prompted the authorities to investigate Tashnuba, who says the accusations are false. But in a series of interviews - her first - she said the government had apparently discovered her visits to an Internet chat room where she took notes on sermons by a charismatic Islamic cleric in London, a sheik who has long been accused of encouraging suicide bombings.

An F.B.I. agent, posing as a youth counselor, first confronted Tashnuba in her bedroom, going through her school papers and questioning everything from her views on jihad to her posterless walls, she said. Sent to a center for delinquents in Pennsylvania, Tashnuba said she was interrogated without a lawyer or parent present, about her beliefs and those of her friends, mainly American girls she had met at city mosques.


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But Tashnuba says that she opposes suicide bombing, that her interest in the cleric was casual, and that the government treated her like a criminal simply for exercising the freedoms of speech and religion that America had taught her.

As she tells it, F.B.I. agents tried to twist mundane details of her life to fit the profile of a terrorist recruit, and when they could not make a case, covered their tracks by getting her out of the country. In fact, the court order of "voluntary departure" that let her leave requires a finding that the person is not deportable for endangering national security.

Tashnuba said she believed she was singled out precisely because she is a noncitizen - allowing investigators to invoke immigration law, bypassing the familiar limits of criminal and juvenile proceedings.


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Jun. 17th, 2005 01:39 pm
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So, I was trying to think of a title today. Walking in to work early (8:30), I was very tired, so I couldn't come up with much of anything. About the best I could come up with was Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, but unfortunately, that's already been taken. (I'm betting that, even without copyright infringment laws, it would be too funny/silly/obvious to use, anyway. You know. Souls for tea and all.)

However!

I was bored, and typing things into Google (esp. Amaranth), and I got to a page that had recipes with Amaranth (the flower) in them. This got me thinking about food and eating, which of course led to such silliness as Recipe... for DISASTER!!!

Yeah. I'm not so good with the titles.

However, I thought to myself, 'well, why not call it Slaking the Thirst? That has drinking/eating connotations.' So, curious if anyone else had used it, I put it through Google.

The third or fourth link down is to various translations of Baudelaire's La Fontaine de Sang.

So, I think I'll keep it (liek whoa).

I am also up to 1100 words, although I'm kind of iffy about them. Will send it to myself for editing in Waterloo.

The synopsis is fine, it's everything else I'm going "meh" on...

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