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Two bodies (Afghanistanis) found in Broad Brook (reservoir)
Danbury News-Times [Connecticut] ^ | April 18, 2002 | AP

Posted on 04/18/2002 10:41:37 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough

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1 posted on 04/18/2002 10:41:37 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
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To: LurkedLongEnough
"According to police.....neither knew how to swim.."

Dontcha just love comments like that?....like how did the police know....

2 posted on 04/18/2002 10:46:48 AM PDT by ken5050
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To: LurkedLongEnough
Very interesting--thanks for posting this.
3 posted on 04/18/2002 10:49:55 AM PDT by syriacus
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To: LurkedLongEnough
An update - I just can't let the name "Gumshuda" go unnoted:

(East Windsor-AP Apr. 18, 2002 UPDATED 1:50PM) _ The bodies of a man and a woman from East Windsor have been pulled out of a town reservoir.

The bodies of the couple were pulled from the reservoir at East Windsor Park on Reservoir Avenue this morning.

The bodies have been identified as 53-year-old Mohammad Gumshuda and his wife, Simmer Hader, both of East Windsor.

Police said Gumshuda drove for an airport taxi service and was reported missing yesterday by another woman also identified as his wife. Police say the female victim is another wife.

The man's taxi was discovered in front of the gate to the park this morning around six-thirty. A park official says after finding the taxi he searched the beach and found shoes, the keys to the abandoned vehicle, and a cell phone.

According to police, neither Gumshuda nor Hader knew how to swim.

Police say Gumshuda has been in Connecticut since at least 1995. They don't have an age or immigration status of the woman.


4 posted on 04/18/2002 10:53:29 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
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To: ken5050
Come on - the police must have first researched the couple's swim test results with the Red Crescent back in Afghanistan before stating this "fact". LOL!
5 posted on 04/18/2002 10:55:31 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
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To: ken5050
like how did the police know.... They asked the wife of the deceased, for instance.
6 posted on 04/18/2002 10:55:45 AM PDT by TopQuark
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which wife?...LOL
7 posted on 04/18/2002 10:59:00 AM PDT by ken5050
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To: LurkedLongEnough, decarlo, racebannon
This is strange. The reservoir sits adjacent to some ratty apartment/condos where the police set up road blocks just about every other day for revenue enhanc- er I mean "seat belt" checks.
8 posted on 04/18/2002 10:59:03 AM PDT by Wm Bach
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Looks like Broad Brook is a Superfund Cleanup site...

"...EPA and the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection are currently proposing to defer consideration of the site to the State of Connecticut for cleanup, rather than finalize its listing on the NPL. EPA, CT DEP and the Town of East Windsor outlined the initial steps for deferral consideration at a public meeting on September 10, 2001; additional public meetings will be scheduled as the process progresses.

9 posted on 04/18/2002 11:13:12 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
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To: Wm Bach
Police say the female victim is another wife.

Seems to me they'll be looking for 'Another Husband' soon?

I've swam here, it is a placid pond more than a reservoir. Plus, I think he would have to jump a fence, too, hevent been there in about 20 years!

10 posted on 04/18/2002 11:33:10 AM PDT by RaceBannon
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To: RaceBannon
it is a placid pond more than a reservoir.

That's a nice euphemism for algae-beslimed open sewer. It's not like they could have been plotting to poison it, as that would be redundant. Still, the sheer speculative post 9-11 in me wonders whether they were playing hosts to some distant relations visiting from the old country who have decided to make some nefarious little terrorist moves and do a little house cleaning to cover their trails in the process.

"Thanks for the room, but we have some business to attend to, sorry Uncle Fez and Aunt 'Rina." *gurgle gurgle gurgle*.

11 posted on 04/18/2002 11:48:01 AM PDT by Wm Bach
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That's a nice euphemism for algae-beslimed open sewer.

I don't understand -- I used to swim in that reservoir as a kid, and it was a public park with a beach, floats, etc. I was there maybe 7-8 years ago and that was still the case. Am I thinking of the same place?

12 posted on 04/18/2002 12:53:56 PM PDT by WL-law
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CT Bump!

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13 posted on 04/19/2002 5:02:24 AM PDT by LoneGOPinCT
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To: WL-law
The place I'm thinking of has an overflow right across the street from the old abandoned red opera/playhouse. That's the only large body of water I know of in Broadbrook, but I'm an out of towner.

The Afghani deaths didn't get much attention in the mainstream media because of the many more dramatic drownings all over the state yesterday.

14 posted on 04/19/2002 6:12:44 AM PDT by Wm Bach
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To: LoneGOPinCT; All
Great post Lone! Thanks for the laughs, All. And I hope that res doesn't flow directly into my River! LOL &;-)
15 posted on 04/19/2002 6:33:35 AM PDT by 2Trievers
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To: Wm Bach
"The reservoir sits adjacent to some ratty apartment/condos where the police set up road blocks just about every other day for revenue enhanc- er I mean "seat belt" checks. "

I got bagged by one of those seat belt "checks" four doors down from my house last week. I would have been buckled, but the sight of four cruisers and flashing lights distracted me from my routine as I was getting set to pull out of the driveway.

I wish the police possessed the same scrupples as the fire department, and stood out in the road with a boot to collect donations, rather than resorting to fascist road block tactics to raise revenue. Personally, I think they should all be tarred and feathered.

18 posted on 04/20/2002 11:27:28 AM PDT by Critter
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To: syriacus; WL-law; Wm Bach; critter
Broad Brook, CT is mentioned in today's New York Times article on prejudice against Muslims in America. Is it just coincidence? Is this Pakistani playing on sympathies for the "victim" / underdog?

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April 25, 2002
For Many American Muslims, Complaints of Quiet but Persistent Bias
By SUSAN SACHS

In ways large and small, from perceived prejudice in the workplace to a heightened sense of anxiety at home, the events of Sept. 11 continue to reverberate in the lives of American Muslims....[snip]...

"What we have now is a feeling of insecurity, a feeling that I can't really describe in words," said Zaheer Sharaf, a grocer and service station owner who immigrated from Pakistan six years ago.

His own sense of anxiety deepened four months ago, when some family friends visited from Pakistan. They stepped outside Mr. Sharaf's grocery store, on Main Street in Broad Brook, Conn., to snap a few photographs. Someone who saw them called the police to report suspicious foreigners with cameras. "The police came to the store, and I explained the situation," Mr. Sharaf said. "They were very nice, but I felt so embarrassed. I'd like to be part of society here, but minor things like these make me feel excluded." ....[article continues]


19 posted on 04/25/2002 7:19:35 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
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To: LurkedLongEnough
Who knew that the tiny little burgh of Broadbrook would be a hotbed of terrorism? I'm sticking with the theory that established muslim Americans are knowlingly or unknowlingly playing host to terrorist relatives who just happen to be visiting from the old country.

Maybe if joe-muslim-on-the-street wasn't so busy cheering 9-11 on, Americans wouldn't be so quick to cast them the flinty eye.

20 posted on 04/25/2002 8:07:56 AM PDT by Wm Bach
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