On Sept 27, 2005, 16 year old Munir Mario Rashed was pulled out of his computer class & sent to his school's main office where two FBI agents were waiting to question him about terrorism. What sparked the FBI's interest in this young Arab-American student?
The Sacramento Bee reports that:
After the June arrest of suspects in a terrorist investigation in Lodi, the FBI received a complaint alleging not only that Rashed had the letters "PLO" on his binder, but that there were pictures of suicide bombers on his cell phone.
That prompted the FBI to act, said Karen Ernst, a special agent with the Sacramento office.
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The agents asked him a series of questions, Rashed said, including whether he was born in the United States, whether he knew what "PLO" stood for and whether he was aware of the arrests in Lodi.
"I said of course I know. I said, 'If you watch the news, you know.' I told them in that school we read the newspaper every day," he said.
He said Thursday the only pictures he has on his cell phone are ones of a mosque.
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