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To: Richnorth who wrote (79878)	12/11/2001 12:55:52 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116753

OT And to think, some(even those on this thread that claim a love of justice & freedom) would find these actions acceptable: sltrib.com Dad, Son Held For Weeks as Terror Suspects Tuesday, December 11, 2001 BY TOM WELLS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LABELLE, Fla. -- To the north of this tiny rural town, the Glades Inn motel has signs asking guests not to clean fish in their rooms; there's an extra charge if they do. To the south, road signs advise "Panther Crossing." Country boys spend a lot of time hunting and fishing here, and the big deal of the year is the crowning of the Swamp Cabbage Festival queen. And this is where Fathi Mustafa settled, a Palestinian-born shopkeeper who became a U.S. citizen. A hand-lettered sign above Mustafa's shop on Hickpoochee Street proclaims it the LaBelle Department Store. The place is about as big as a four-car garage. Mustafa, 66, and his family have lived and worked in LaBelle for seven years. His son runs a grocery-gas station on the edge of town. People here like the hardworking family. And many locals did not like what happened to their neighbors after Sept. 11. "They stereotyped people in this just because they're from the Mideast," said Steve Crews, who runs a septic tank business. "They were done wrong." The Mustafas were indicted, jailed, held in isolation and threatened with deportation even though both are U.S. citizens. They went to Mexico a few days before Sept. 11 on a trip to buy stock -- work boots, Western wear, belt buckles and so on. On Sept. 15, Mustafa and the oldest of his five sons, Nacer, 29, were returning through Bush International Airport in Houston. Federal authorities at the airport were on high alert. They accused the Mustafas of having put an extra layer of lamination on their passports. "My dad and I were taken to separate rooms and questioned about why we had altered our passports," Nacer Mustafa said. "The worst part was when I heard my dad pleading, crying in the next room. The poor guy has never had so much as a parking ticket. I was scared he was going to have a heart attack. "Some anti-terrorist task force guy tried to get me to admit I had laminated my passport. He said that in case I was deported, he wanted to know what country I would want to go to. I told him I was a U.S. citizen, but that didn't faze him." Before and after court appearances -- four times in all -- father and son had to undress and undergo body cavity searches, Nacer Mustafa said. When the older man was released on bond after 11 days, he had to wear an electronic bracelet used to keep track of criminals. His son was released after 67 days. Charges against both were dropped. Laboratory analysis established that neither passport had been altered. Nacer Mustafa remains angry at those who arrested him, saying they lied under oath. But he adds, "I'm not mad at the American people over this."