FBI Apologizes to the “Evansville 8″:
As part of a national roundup in the weeks after the terrorist attacks, the “Evansville 8″ were among 50 people held as material witnesses in maximum security jails without being charged with a crime. Thousands of more men from Middle Eastern countries were questioned, some arrested and detained, allegedly for links to terrorism, only to be let go or deported on immigration violations. Civil liberties groups protested that the arrests amounted to racial stereotyping.As part of a national roundup in the weeks after the terrorist attacks, the “Evansville 8″ were among 50 people held as material witnesses in maximum security jails without being charged with a crime. Thousands of more men from Middle Eastern countries were questioned, some arrested and detained, allegedly for links to terrorism, only to be let go or deported on immigration violations. Civil liberties groups protested that the arrests amounted to racial stereotyping.
In the Washington Post.
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