[Desertdog]

They are still illegal immigrents. Control the illegals and eliminate most potential bombers. Dd

Paper: Two N.Y. Girls Held Over Terror
http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/4/7/121956.shtml

NewsMax.com Wires
Thursday, April 7, 2005
NEW YORK —- Two 16-year-old girls from New York City have been arrested on immigration charges after federal authorities said they planned to become suicide bombers, according to a published report.

The teenagers were arrested March 24 and were being held in a detention center in Leesport, Pa., The New York Times reported Thursday, citing a government document provided by a federal agent.

According to the document, the FBI found that the girls posed "an imminent threat to the security of the United States based upon evidence that they plan to be suicide bombers," the Times said.
The evidence was not described in the document.

Manny Van Pelt, a spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (search), a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, would confirm only that two juveniles had been arrested on "administrative immigration violations" and remained in custody.

The girls — one from Bangladesh, one from Guinea — were living in the United States illegally, the Times reported.

Adam Carroll, a community activist with the Islamic Circle of North America (search), told the Times one of the girls had been arrested after she stopped attending public high school in September. Federal immigration agents investigated her home and discovered an essay about suicide and Islam on her computer, Carroll said.

[whm1974]

ederal immigration agents investigated her home and discovered an essay about suicide and Islam on her computer, Carroll said.

And how is this by itself mean this girl is planning or has a desire to be a suicide bomber?

So if this was a boy and he had an essay on rape on his computer, is he now a rapist?

-Bill

[SJG26]

Great.........................next town just south of mine. It notes the girls are from NY - but the Leesport,PA facility is one of the Philly Metro INS Detention Centers. It will be very interesting to find out which school district these two were attending.

[Chipperman]

I hope there is a lot of information that we are not being told.
If they are basing their assertion of her desire to become a suicide bomber on an essay, then that's pretty lame.

If people looked at some of my computer files, they would probably faint.

Now they appear to be illegal aliens, and should certainly be held. But it's getting WAAAYYY to easy to label someone a "Terrorist" and lock them up until Doomsday.

[TrybalRage]

Umm. I sure would like to know where this detention facility is, must not be very big. I've lived in Leesport since '94 and this is the first I've heard of it.


SJG - Dauberville?

P.S. - the NY thing isn't much of a surprise either, read the paper and its always people from NY killing other people from NY in Reading.