Government has approved a law to dismantle the regime of former president Omar Al Bashir the countrys Prime Minister says the decision was not a matter of of the news but aimed at preserving the dignity of the sudanese people bashir was removed from office in april after months of antigovernment protests. Iraqi Security Forces have opened fire on crowds in a Southern City as antigovernment protests worsen at least 33 people are reported dead after the protest in nasiriyah and another 11 deaths in the jeff. On wednesday the iranian consulate in the job was set on fire. Death. In at uk a dramatic escalation hundreds of antigovernment protesters storming the compound of the iranian consulate Late Wednesday in the Southern City of najaf setting parts of the Diplomatic Mission on fire replacing an iranian flag with people instead of how to go when the consulate was set on file all the broad police in the job and the Security Forces started firing and as if we were burning a rock as a whole the riot police fired tear gas canisters intensively on the Security Forces ranges heavily with live bullets the protesters say iran is exerting too much power in at off and they want their government to take action to limit it according to analysts its not just this attack that significant but also the symbolism of where it took place this is the city where the Ayatollah Khomeini used to live its considered to be you know the heart of the shia muslim world and iran thought that it had the population the iraqi shia population on its side in terms of its you know regional policies clearly thats not the case in the this is the 2nd time this month that an iranian consulate in a shiite majority city has been targeted by the demonstrators 3 weeks ago Security Forces killed 4 demonstrators who stormed the consulate in the city of karbala both attacks feed into the wider antigovernment protest movement thats engulfed iraq since october hours later violence in yet another shiite majority Southern City dozens killed or wounded in nasiriyah when Security Forces opened fire with live rounds and tear gas to disperse crowds of protesters. Military announced the troops would be dispatched to southern iraq to restore order. Antigovernment demonstrations have been raging in iraq since early october with protesters accusing the government of corruption and demanding a complete overhaul of the countrys political system since the unrest began at least 350. 00 people have been killed and thousands wounded. Political analysts say the only way for the government to find a solution is by pushing for reform. To issue a new electorial role for the best of the people to hold early elections off to the rocky parliament dissolves itself and the government resigns but many protesters say much more needs to be done day after day the demonstrators that we speak with be they in baghdad or other cities tell us they dont feel the government is taking their demands seriously they say that no matter the risk they will continue to come out and press for the rights and opportunities they say they deserve. But that. Dozens of yemenis are going to welcome back home from jail in saudi arabia as part of a prisoner swap 128 men who have flown into sanaz International Airports on board red cross planes u. N. Special envoy motm griffiths welcome the swaps that come during a new push to end the 5 yet wolf. That was what headlines continued say on aljazeera after witness statement thats a watching ive. Tried to check check check since. I was must have been 16 and i remember like waking up 3 am and seeing a 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 they 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 wire and theyre putting something theyre installing something at 3 am and we wish to call the police i was really upset and disturbed lemon mom was like. You know its ok calm down the side of pigtails probably just see f. B. I. Go back to sleep. Just you know dont go dont run and youre ok so long. Can you tell me about that time you have to be i came to the door and im here and you know i. Was. Like few miles the steps were you have that as a way. And some want him running 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 silly 3 i think you will see a man. With a black suit i recognize them it was a close you should be fair 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 thought their make you the make you the maker confused you sat there 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 pretty like microphone or how to call it love bug exactly each morning. And look and then my table the next day i was a baby i did see it i have to check again i would just look said no and the kids sense of mom struggle with that said no i think its also more that i couldnt see it how do you know other times learning we were just being her little hands were really not excuse me because everyone in the community was saying the came the came the candy k. All right really go. Ridgeview is a really tight knit neighborhood Everybody Knows everybody else are doing documentaries. One will move that started in the ninetys till now so in the side of young we need to do that in oregon it has been my children. I thought 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 but were no interview. Haria. Hung the law. Come this way if you can get an angle a little bit more but a bit more yeah right there and the damn car is always are great there. Is like how you see in the movie as i post pizza fans that are just sitting staked out from your house when you pass the van by like they pull up of months or a bag and they act like theyre not in the car but we can see you. They would take on an aisle and the car down so they washed all the area. So what coder steps right next to go to the computer and going through would know i should do a movie do home respect their home is this great good. No spot on it. Was time he saw. It was before with me. Every time i went to the groceries i saw the car i wouldnt top of the kid this other car and be kind of odd that the house was bugged to the someone he was looking into the house all the time you could. Feel like someone stressed invading your life you know. I have the feeling that there is a camera there is something watching you dont feel afraid you dont feel safe. But i remember how it felt to just know that im free in my home this is my home. Just starts i dont know how. Its become to the point where i would call the leader cross the street of course part of them say this or that over the car like that. Its not your mo its crazy do you think youre paranoid no do. No im not im not not i dont know i just think 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 the Mosque Foundation in bridgeview and its leaders for possible involvement and terribly did move on to 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. 2 hamas 2 has 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 obviously as a journalist you want to know ok well getting these things moving 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 on. d the goals of this investigation including 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. 00 were going to seize that assets of an organization and a person and one of the things they seize was the house i lived at 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 caught imperium out the window this weekend. That guy peering out the window of his own house that had. 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. Who 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 an attorney 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 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 defected from this country here you see the old saw about a shoulder. Yes to it not guilty verdict of being a chair restore going to say 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 mohammad 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 ah 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 squads because all the times are just out of evidence. But if youre i think your question is would. 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 but that certainly was not my world view certainly certainly is not. And had 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 murders its really f. B. I. Wow i cant see 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 while going to try out one of the most interesting documents on june 9th 9098. 00 the assets of blink were 6 percent to warrants based on civil forfeiture complaint filed in the United States court rather than district of 09 so im june 9th 1908 we lived in that house that was seized by the f. B. I. So mom i gotta tell your story well i think shopping Something Like that is where we came and we always saw this bunch of woman in men in suits or in the car with you i think yeah it was all schooling gone like i wasnt aware of them i was just saying your fathers and be a f. B. I. They were just forcing the dollars Something Like these are part of the breeding i was so what they are doing said the attic people over the. City out of the debate. Your father told me he said always sort of maybe would be. Without home was without a home in this so we have to think about having the and all the apartment this and that which is documented in these f. B. I. Documents basically led to us living in this house. The. The. 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 relief. If. You will think. It was. Dear mr know if this is in response here remember racial progress basement mission or provided we conducted a search of the records system we were unable to identify main file records responsive to the foyer be live near acknowledgment of such records existence or nonexistence wouldnt of itself trigger harm to National Security be please be advised that unusual circumstances apply to the processing of your requests be heard advised that the records were not in their expected location i could not be located after a reasonable search. Therefore we are closing your custom and strictly. To be exact how many different ways they have sent me rejection letters 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. Dearman spandau a this is in reference here freedom of information act requests on operation volcker 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 holidays and bridge we have to see see 1st thing that you as the cigar go yeah wow well the shock and fear already know much enough why we havent seen one. How does you know talking lost your dad was even the father me. He had when he was you know. Im expecting about it a whole slew ph the towel tears are desired yeah like it was a temporary thing yeah. I was happy because i was close to them all 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 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 i am 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 violence 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 gazes how i see myself and how i see myself through the eyes of others through the eyes of a world that vie