Transcripts For ALJAZ The Feeling Of Being Watched 20240713

Transcripts For ALJAZ The Feeling Of Being Watched 20240713

A day after more than 50 people were killed by Security Forces in one of the bloodiest days of violence since the antigovernment protests erupted in early october. It was just over a year ago that he was appointed Prime Minister as a consensus candidate between a rock political blogs. Throughout the streets on friday cheering singing even dancing optimism on full display oh shut up today the iraqi people are happy but we only consider this as a 1st step we demand the resignation of all lawmakers and we call on the judiciary to put them on trial immediately. The protesters making it clear that cosmetic changes will not suffice they are after a complete overhaul of the political system in iraq the mood here a general square has turned celebrates worry but all around us there are stronger reminders of those who have lost their lives during these protests here you see people who are praying for the memories of antigovernment demonstrators who were killed by Security Forces on a College Student told me he and his fellow protesters are more encouraged than ever to keep coming out on to the streets and risk their lives if you are going to do that either no doubt of that album isnt only. Just a cover he wants to topple the whole regime its been a corrupt system. For the last 16 years a corrupt system that negatively Impact Society and politics the economy and its even had a psychological impact on us some of the 2nd it. Brought her whole family so they could all witness a historic moment together. To show our day to day we have to come and participate because this iraq is our iraq this country is our country and this pain is our pain the youth whove been demonstrating are like all our children they have to take their rights because corruption wont last forever. Inspiring words that may help transcend the deep pain felt by so many in iraq these praying constantly not just for the dead but also the living. But that a man killed 2 people and a knife attack and Central London according to London Police and the suspect a 28 year old man was shot dead during the incident on was known to authorities and have been convicted of terrorism related offenses in 2012 he was released early from prison under unspecified conditions be an Opposition Leader keiko for more he has been released from jail she is the daughter of perus former president was he more he was servant serving an 18 month pretrial sentence for allegedly receiving bribes from Brazilian Construction Company. The women are a negotiation between the u. S. And the Afghan Taliban have resumed the taliban confirm the informal talks as u. S. President made it unannounced visit to afghanistan talks were canceled by trump in september after a u. S. Soldier was killed in an attack by the taliban the president of the south American Country sorry nami has been sentenced to 20 years in prison a panel of 3 judges convicted a terse a for the killing of 15 political opponents in 1902 when he became the de facto leader after a coup the decision was announced on friday while the president is on an official trip to china. Werth koreas state news agency has called the japanese Prime Minister an imbecile and warned tokyo could so witness a real Missile Launch the attack on sions comes after north korea fired 2 short range projectiles into the sea off its east coast on thursday japan described the test as a ballistic Missile Launch that poses a threat and violates u. N. Sanctions or so the headlines keep it here on aljazeera more news to come next witness the feeling of being watched kopitar. Check check check check switch. 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 all of them there are these 2 guys outside on the wall you are in there putting something theyre installing something at 3 am and we we should call the police i was really upset and disturbed them and i was like. You know its ok calm down the side effect alles probably just the f. B. I. Go back to sleep. Just dont dont dont want to 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 just his were in your bed as. And some want him running someones here 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 was a of course you should leave her here for one hour when you talk about her one hour you know you dont know them how the this is a question you dont answer there was in all the while and the end of the all the under thought their make you the make you the maker confused you sat there just saying stuff. They would pick how does them this is what 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 michel for the love bug exactly each morning. And look and then my table the next day i was maybe id see it i have to check again i would just look said no and the kids sense of mom stopped there when they said no i think its all so long that i couldnt see it how do you know the times when you were just being hurt or even times were really severe not excuse me because everyone in the community was seeing the came the came the came the k. All right here you go. And i 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 we decided we are new we need to do the story in. 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. The law. 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 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 our bags they act like theyre not in the car but we can see 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 going through it you know i should do a movie do respect their own is just great good. No spot and it. Was time he saw a car bomb it was before me. Every time i went for the groceries i saw the car i wouldnt top of the cafe saw the car and be kind of thought that the house was but to the somebody was looking into the house all the time and i could. Feel like someone suggests to me beating your life you know. I have a 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 my home this is my home its just starts to hunt you know. Its become to the point where i would call the lever cross the street or her support the learn to say this or that over the car like that. Its not your home its crazy do you think youre paranoid no do you. 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 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. 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 walls when you were trying to guess because often sees a journalist you want to know ok well we have seen these things but when 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. d 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 oh he is mosques and charities for just one big front cover for terrorism. I mean whats the 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 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 caught imperium out the window this weekend. That guy peering out the window of his own house that. 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 is 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 and 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 strength of spies case all the time because were just out of evidence. But if youre i think your question is would. Want to go deeper in that you are are you trying to say you think the investigation you know was as a result of. Islamophobia or prejudice. Susan i do not think 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. Well i cant see much. More since these are the i document 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 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 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 i was whats going on like i wasnt aware and i was just saying your father was on to be a f. B. I. They were just forcing the dollars Something Like this are part of the building i was so what they are doing said i think the attic people over the. Said. Your father told me said always start or maybe would be. I was out i was without a home in this so we have to think about having the and all that up last winter on this and that which is documented in these f. B. I. Documents basically led to us living in this house. With. 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 been doughy this is in response here remember that request 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 requests to 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 custom and strictly. To me is a how many differ. One way is they have sent me rejection letters but they dont have things that i know exists 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 the. 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 know much enough why we havent seen miles how does you know talk a mosque your dad was he gave the thought of me when i can when he was you know will continue on expecting about in a holistic ph the towel to theres no desire yet like it was a temporary thing yeah. I was having because i was close to the house 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 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

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