F.B.I. Is Accused of Bias by Arab-American Agent

The New York Times ^ | July 20, 2003 | DAVID JOHNSTON

[thegreatbeast]

The F.B.I.'s highest-ranking Arab-American agent has filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the bureau, charging that he was kept out of the investigation of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackings because of his ancestry.

The agent, Bassem Youssef, filed the lawsuit on Friday in Federal District Court for the District of Columbia. Mr. Youssef, a naturalized American citizen born in Egypt, said in his complaint that "no other non-Arab F.B.I. employee with similar background and experience was willfully blocked from working 9/11-related matters."

[thegreatbeast]

This frosts my buttocks. You target Middle Easteners and you are profiling. But in the FBI if you don't use every Arab agent on the War on Terrorism you are exhibiting prejudice against them! Nevermind, that this is tantamount to the agent declaring, "You no longer control this set of secrets! I demand access to them." Hoover didn't have to sit still for this nonsense. Rid-diddledy-diculous!

[xrp]

oh boy...a nation full of whiners (the FBI dude)

[buffyt]

He can just b*te me.

[PhilDragoo]

After he gets laughed out of court and countersued for his frivolous suit, by all means use him in the investigation.

We need to see what happens to a body when a person jumps from the 100th floor.

Use a helicopter.

Baddabing baddabang baddaBassem.

[Ronin]

All this lawsuit proves is that he never should have been hired in the first place.

[Bogey78O]

"no other non-Arab F.B.I. employee with similar background and experience was willfully blocked from working 9/11-related matters."

So we allowed non-arabs who were naturalized Americans from Egypt participate?

[evolved_rage]

This skank is just furthering the decay from within, all part of their plan.

[festus]

;The F.B.I.'s highest-ranking Arab-American agent has filed
;a racial discrimination lawsuit against the bureau,
;charging that he was kept out of the investigation of the
;Sept. 11, 2001, hijackings because of his ancestry.

I'd be upset if the FBI did it any other way. You generally don't put the fox, or any relatives of the fox, in charge of the henhouse.

Now what the story doesn't say is what else the FBI suspects that this "patriot" is into.....

[jocko12]

IF THE TOWEL HEAD DOSE NOT LIKE THE WAY THE FBI WORKS, HE CAN QUIT!!!!

[2rightsleftcoast]

Agreed. Sick of Middle Eastern whining!
F##k him!!!
I don't want him in the FBI
He can go back to Egypt if he thinks he
is being so unfairly treated.
Time for US to get tough. Profile,Profile, Profile!!!
Thanks for listening. Rant over.

[PLK]

Whatever. Pay him off. No one cares.

[FreedomCalls]

Is this the same FBI agent who would not wiretap a muslim suspect because "muslims don't rat on other muslims"?

[FreedomCalls]

Here it is:

Muslim Agent Refused to Record Fellow Muslim, Agent Says

Perhaps most astounding of the many mistakes, according to Flessner and an affidavit filed by Wright, is how an FBI agent named Gamal Abdel-Hafiz seriously damaged the investigation. Wright says Abdel-Hafiz, who is Muslim, refused to secretly record one of al-Kadi's suspected associates, who was also Muslim. Wright says Abdel-Hafiz told him, Vincent and other agents that "a Muslim doesn't record another Muslim."

"He wouldn't have any problems interviewing or recording somebody who wasn't a Muslim, but he could never record another Muslim," said Vincent.

Wright said he "was floored" by Abdel-Hafiz's refusal and immediately called the FBI headquarters. Their reaction surprised him even more: "The supervisor from headquarters says, 'Well, you have to understand where he's coming from, Bob.' I said no, no, no, no, no. I understand where I'm coming from," said Wright. "We both took the same damn oath to defend this country against all enemies foreign and domestic, and he just said no? No way in hell."

Far from being reprimanded, Abdel-Hafiz was promoted to one of the FBI's most important anti-terrorism posts, the American Embassy in Saudi Arabia, to handle investigations for the FBI in that Muslim country.

[Iscool]

Accused of bias? I certainly hope the FBI is bias...
Ahab, come and cry on my shoulder... I'll give you some advice...

[thegreatbeast]

It's that friggin' guy!!!!!!!!!! That's too much.
It would have to be proven of course but there is the capability to revoke a person's naturalization. I didn't know that until yesterday.
This guy's life should be torn asunder until we know EXACTLY what he is about. Something stinks and it ain't me.

[FreedomCalls]

It's that friggin' guy!!!!!!!!!!

No, it's a different guy. But it does show that you may need to take his religion into account as some other agent has already established the baseline that Muslims can't be trusted when investigating other Muslims. One of the other of them is in the wrong.

[TruthNtegrity]

I know there's something I want to say on this - something like the Arab airline pilot who was let go within the airline's one year probation - suing to get his job back. I don't want my pilot to be "Akbar Hussein" or whatever. We have a right to insist on absolute allegiance to America, and these guys? Their allegiance is to Allah and let's not forget that all of US are infidels!

Let 'em go home and get a job there. Not in my Country.

[Sawman from Phoenix]

I agree ! His loyalty to America is secondary to " the religion of peace ". He is indeed the " enemy within ".