Transcripts For ALJAZ The Feeling Of Being Watched 20240712

Transcripts For ALJAZ The Feeling Of Being Watched 20240712

The Prime Minister of the office of the Prime Minister of the im told is that other things besides that they will resume talks immediately on a technical level i was repeatedly heard statements from the 3 sides saying that 95 percent of the issues have been resolved and that theres only remaining 5 percent as well as the legal aspects. The number of new covert 19 infections in the u. S. A surged to another high for the 3rd day running sensing a worsening situation the government held its 1st Coronavirus Task force briefing in 2 months all over as president like pence remained upbeat the top Infectious Disease expert warned there is a serious problem as alan fischer reports rise in cases after almost 2 months away its back this moment in the coronavirus pandemic is different and faced with a surge in cases across the country the white house Coronavirus Task force faces a renewed threat were in a much stronger players the truth is we did slow the spread we flattened the curve recent days have brought a Record Number of infections 16 states are seeing a rising number of cases and infection rates states like texas which had started to reopen no bringing back all distractions after a 145 percent rise in cases in just 14 days bars closed restaurants cutting capacity Public Gatherings Limited houstons mayor calls it a crisis the numbers are jumping exponentially and rising fast and we are quickly moving in the wrong direction arizona has no more cases per head of population than brazil 88 percent of the states intensive care beds are full doctors see a Health System on the edge and as has been experienced in trying to make for each other at some point theres a Tipping Point and were hoping we dont already actually say this is tender waiting to explode but im thinking that some of that has already been let and that is concerning the man who has played a major role in the white house response had this warning to young people the thing that you really need to realize that when you do that you are part of a process so if you get infected you will infect someone else who clearly will infect someone else we know that happens because the reproduction element of the virus is not less than one so people are infecting other people and then ultimate. You will infect someone whos vulnerable the task force met at the department of health not here at the white house put it see that she was the president s level of engagement with the crisis no the president also said the virus would start to go away in the warmer weather it hasnt one expert saying this isnt the 2nd wave its still the fastest alan fischer out is either at the white house brazils government has counted almost 47000 new infections over the past 24 hours and close to 1000 deaths covert 19 is spreading 1st through rural areas where Health Workers say theyre not equipped to handle the outbreak but this could bring the disease back to urban centers and socalled boomerang effects overall 54000. 00 are known to have died in brazil and its the hardest hit country in latin america which remains the global epi center of the pandemic mexico citys police chief has been injured in an attempted assassination but omar garcia her bodyguards were killed garcia is blaming one of mexicos most powerful drug gangs and the u. S. Government has been ordered to by a federal judge to release children held in 3 Immigration Centers due to covert 930 s. The order applies to those whove been held for more than 20 days at centers in texas and pennsylvania where there have been some cases those where the headlines here on our back with more in half an hour next its witness do stay with us. Trying to check check check since. I was must have been 16 and i remember like waking up 3 am and seeing the light outside and got up and i looked outside and there were 2 men on the telephone pole and they were doing something on the wires and rely its shining on them it was really strange to see it at 3 am so i freaked out i went across the hall to my moms room and i will karate and her and i was like love and there are these 2 guys outside on the wall you are in there putting something there installing something at 3 am and we really should call the police i was really upset and disturbed let my mom was like. You know its ok calm down the side of pigtails probably just see f. B. I. Go back to sleep. Just dont dont dont run and you are ok so long. Can you tell me about that time you have to be i came to the door and im 99. Well. I guess you must have your dad passed away. And some want him running za someones year asking for you i went to the door i found already people inside my house by the door to 2 it was like 33 i think you will see a man. With a black suit i recognize them it was a real cause you should leave her here for one hour when you talk about her one hour you know you dont know them how the decision question you dont answer there was in a little while and the end of the all the still go under so there make you the make you the maker confused you said theyre just saying stuff. They would pick how does name is one it was my and my husbands friend how is your relation with that. Talk about him you know that what they call it they put like a microphone or how the cord it bug exactly each morning i wake up and look and then my table the next day i was maybe i did see it i have to check again i would just look said no and the kids have said mom stop there when they said no i think its also more that i couldnt see it how do you know the time is money we were just being her good times were really something not excuse me because everyone in the community was saying they came they came they came the k. All right here you go. And i can never. Reach you is a really tight knit neighborhood Everybody Knows everybody else were doing a documentary i. Couldnt move that started in the ninetys till now so in the side of the army we need to do the story gone again in my view. A lot of people in my neighborhood have stories about being watched but most of them are afraid to talk out loud about it especially when theres a camera around. Ok no worries i think if i want to talk to you know. We got some bread were no interview. Come this way if you can get an angle a little bit more but it would work yeah right there and the damn car is always parked right there. Its like how you see in the movie as cycles pizza fans that are just sitting staked out from your house when you pass the van by like they pull up of most of our bags they act like theyre not in the car but we can see them you know. They would take on an aisle at the corner so they watch all the area. So what coder steps right next to go to the computer and theyre going through it you know i should do a movie deal but their home is just great good. Noise but when it. Was time we saw a car bomb that was before me. Every time i went to the groceries i saw the car i would have top of the cafe saw the car and be kind of thought that the house was bugged to the somebody was looking into the house all the time and i could. Feel like someone stressed invading your life you know. I have a feeling that there is a cat right there is something watching you dont feel afraid you dont feel safe. But i remember how it felt to just know that im free my home this is my home its just starts at a house. Its become to the point where i would call the labor cross the street or her support to learn to say this or that over the car like that. Its not your home its crazy. Do you think youre paranoid no. No im not im not not i dont know i just think every everything is its happening its going on and its its in real life its not an imagination is not paranoia be and be. Rich you mosque leaders have been under surveillance for years indictments may be forthcoming. The f. B. I. Has had problems going into the mosque during the week they have people out on the corners doing countersurveillance its a very insular community. A decade old federal investigation. So since 93. 00 b. The. Federal authorities are investigating mosques foundation in bridgeview and its leaders for possible involvement in terribly Good Movement the house of worship one of the largest Islamic Centers in chicago has been under f. B. I. Surveillance for years. When we found this article it was one of the 1st confirmations for me at least that there was this surveillance that was going on for 911 you know nobody thought anyone was building bombs in the basement but what they did thing was that there was money being funneled through supposedly legitimate charities. To hamas to have a law for the most part almost all of these investigations and without any indictments and the ones that did result in indictments were for things like tax fraud so you were getting a lot of wall when you were trying to guess because i havent seen as a journalist you want to know ok well guessing these things well then why what is right why what is it based on and time and again the actual legal argument that was presented was to even discuss the reasons for doing what we are doing would violate National Security. Since august of 9099 ive been working to legally expose the very real forseeable middle eastern terrorist threats to american citizens at home and abroad. The successful investigation which was told me vulgar betrayal vu l. T. A. Our betrayal. To the 998. 00 seizure of 1400000. 00 of middle eastern terrorists funding. The goals of this investigation include identifying organizations involved in the Money Laundering conspiracy and tax from. The list is here and these are the major muslim organizations in America Today so basically they thought all these mosques and charities for just one big front cover for terrorism. I mean with such justification for this. This is the order saying in june of 98 were going to seize that assets of an organization and a person. Of the things they see as was the house i lived in so thats whats wanted out here. Of syrias neighbor who was the 1st american citizen ever designated a terrorist and we were neighbors living downstairs from him at the time. In a middle class suburb of Chicago Living in this house a man the u. S. Government calls a designated global terrorist his name Mohammad Salaam and b c news called imperial out the window this weekend. That guy peering out the window of his own house. Thats how much. Hes publicly known as the 1st american citizen ever put on the terrorist watch list but i knew him best as im a dad my big hearted upstairs neighbor. 102. 00 was a trusted man in our community when there was a humanitarian crisis in palestine in the ninetys our mosque sent him to the west bank with thousands of dollars in donations in the Israeli Occupied west bank today 2 american citizens of palestinian descent are being held without charge in any Israeli Military prison while the government here describes the 2 chicagoans as agents for the fundamentalist group hamas they have not been charged with a crime nor have they been allowed to see you know turney when he was arrested by the israelis accused of collecting money for terrorism our community took to the streets to protest his arrest. While in israeli the tension meant to us tortured and forced to sign a confession in hebrew a language he didnt speak. The information collected by israeli agents during interrogation was sent to f. B. I. Agents in chicago and became one of the foundations for the vulgar betrayal investigation so law a naturalized u. S. Citizen was convicted in israel but after 5 years in prison there he was allowed to return to the u. S. Despite protests from the lead f. B. I. Agent on the case who says so law remains a threat he and a number of others should have been arrested should be behind bars should have their citizenship stripped should have been diverted from this country here you see the old saw about a shoulder a lot yes to it not guilty verdict of being a terrorist organization it didnt matter that abu ahmed was found not guilty in court it didnt matter that the government eventually removed his name from the terrorist watch list once youre labeled a terrorist that red paint never really comes off. Can you talk to me a little bit about the investigation that you worked on that the very large one the name of the state was called polgar betrayal there was a. Individual who was targeted that muhammad salada he was ultimately convicted of a very very minor offenses and i didnt try to tease that or you up thats right you left there 2000 yeah ok do you think that this long investigation was justified. If there are had been crimes uncovered. Or crimes prosecuted that would have been justified. If the reason nothing ever came of the investigation because there was indeed nothing they are then i mean its not a matter be justified the f. B. I. Declines cases all the time with your stretch of spiciness all the time because theyre just out of evidence. But if youre i think your question is would. You want to go deeper in that you are you trying to say you think the investigation you know was as a result of. Islamophobia or prejudice. Susan i do i do not think that certainly was not my world view certainly certainly is not. And have i ever thought that that was what was happening i would have not been part of it because that is not obviously who i am maybe not so obvious with his new idea of i mean even if its a bigger question here which it is or is or. Islamic for we are in this country of course the rivers its really its really f. B. I. Wow i cant see very much. More since these are documents. So i found a 1000 pages of declassified f. B. I. Documents. About an investigation they were doing in chicago in the ninetys called operation vulgar betrayal one of the most interesting documents on june 9th 1008. 00 the assets of blink were 50 percent to warrants based on civil forfeiture complaint filed in the United States court rather than district of 09 so im june 9th 1008 we lived in that house that was seized by the f. B. I. So mom i gotta tell your story we were shopping Something Like this when we came and we always saw this bunch of women and men in suits were in the car with you i think yeah i was whats going on like i wasnt aware and i was just so your father was and b. A and b. I they were just forcing the dollars Something Like this are part of the building i was says what they are doing said the attic people over the. City out of the debate. Your father told me said always start or maybe would be. I was out i was out home in this so we have to think about having the and all that i passed into this and that which is documented in these f. B. I. Documents basically led to us living in this house. The. I want to find out everywhere that our name is on a list and theres a way to do that you can find a privacy waiver and i can submit it to the f. B. I. And tell them anywhere your names exist to release. If. You will think. It was. Real. Near miss pondar a this is in response here remember the ration of progress based on the mission or provided we conducted a search of the records system we were unable to identify main file records responsive to the foyer ramiro acknowledgment of such records existence or nonexistence wouldnt of itself trigger harm to National Security be please be advised that unusual circumstances applied to the processing of your request be heard by is that their records were not in their expected location i could not be located after a reasonable search therefore we are closing your request administrative way. Its amazing how many differ. One way is they have sent me rejection letters but they dont have things that i know exist that i know where they are. The. Search 2 days ago i got a letter from the f. B. I. You know like these letters that weve been getting lately. Dear miss been doughy this is in reference here freedom of information act requests on operation of all creepy trail the federal bureau of investigation has located approximately 33120 pages of records. 33120 pages of record. Just the amount of information you have to collect about people to get to 33000 is enormous and knowing like the end result knowing that these 33000 pages of records never resulted in convicting anyone of terrorism. Its shocking just the number i can imagine within this. Theres a Mosque Foundation bridge we have to see see 1st thing that he was going to see cargo yeah wow what a shock and fear already not much enough when we had 3 months how does you know talk a mosque your dad was he gave the thought of me. Can i when he was you know. Expecting about to the whole us to teach the towel to use our desired. Yes mike there was a time her you think yeah. I was having because i was close to the last and you know i have a lot of. Problems. In 1980 when my little brother and the 5th kid in our family was born my father decided that we should move to a bigger house and bridge view. While the new house was being built and my dad was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer. And a few months after we moved in he was gone. I remember for weeks after he died my house was full of Family Friends and neighbors cooking and cleaning and keeping my mother company. At my fathers funeral hundreds of people from around chicago came to the mosque the community to make a donation in memory of my father to help pay off the remainder of our mortgage. In less than an hour the community donated more than 200000. 00. We paid off our home and 1000 years later were still here. Its really easy for me to talk about my family in my community but its a lot harder to talk about myself. I feel like i cant even begin to tell you who i am without getting into who im not. I was 10 years old when i became aware that everyone looks at us like were all a bunch of terrorists. It started with cartoons all the bad guys in the movies had accents like my parents i had to diffuse but i got we kids were constantly bombarded with images of arabs and muslims as radical backwards violent villains. And so i became aware of how others see me and i learned how not to come off to people not a terrorist not an alien not a traitor. Dont talk too loud in arabic at the mall dont argue with your parents in public dont talk with an accent dont fail in school dont ever break the rules dont look an american. I am constantly juggling within me 2 conflicting gaze is how i s

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