This may be another one for our Keystone Kops Department, but there are more questions than answers in this update of this story. From the New Duranty Times, with thanks to EPG.
It began with two 16-year-old immigrant girls arrested at dawn, detained far from home, and, in a chilling government assertion, called would-be suicide bombers who posed "an imminent threat to the security of the United States."But now, after holding the girls for six weeks in a Pennsylvania detention center, the government has quietly released one of the girls and is allowing the other to leave the country with her family.
One girl, an immigrant from Guinea, was back in her East Harlem high school yesterday among the jubilant friends and teachers who have insisted all along that the accusation was absurd. The other girl, who grew up in Queens, was still in detention, but was granted an order from an immigration judge that will allow her and her parents to return to their native Bangladesh as soon as the trip can be arranged.
Many questions remain unanswered in a case that has been marked from the start by secrecy, including closed hearings, sealed F.B.I. declarations, and orders barring the lawyers from disclosing government information. James Margolin, an F.B.I. spokesman, did not return calls seeking comment on the latest developments, and earlier had said he could not discuss the cases...
"One girl, an immigrant from Guinea, was back in her East Harlem high school yesterday among the jubilant friends and teachers who have insisted all along that the accusation was absurd. The other girl, who grew up in Queens, was still in detention, but was granted an order from an immigration judge that will allow her and her parents to return to their native Bangladesh as soon as the trip can be arranged."
As I recall the facts of this one, both families were in the US illegally. Why aren't both families being extradited?
My guess is that a reason for such secrecy is that the girls, when nabbed, may have fingered the ones who recruited them. Perhaps the next episode is another useless be-kufi'ied beardie with a terminal case of what the Thais call "men khaek" fingering his worry beads as the judge reads an indictment for possibly capital crimes.
I think this is a positive story. The point is being made that this type of "free speech" is taken seriously and will be investigated by the US government.In a related story a terror cell was uncovered in Seattle after neighbors overheard a child of one of the cell members praising the murder of 3000 Americans on 9/11. Alert neighbors contacted the FBI about the family who were then put under surveillance.It's unbelievable that anyone would praise suicide attacks and mass murder so that type of "speech" raises red flags.This case sends a message to wannabe "holy warriors" that no one is safe not even a teenage girl and that the government will come down hard on those with Jihad sympathies.It will be interesting to see how this girl adjusts to life in her native Bangladesh.