The NYPD slapped a terrorist organization label on mosques in order to put its members under surveillance, it was revealed Wednesday.
Cops opened at least a dozen “terrorism enterprise investigations” after the 9/11 attacks, The Associated Press reported.
A confidential NYPD document shows police wanted to place informants on the boards at mosques and other organizations.
Asked about the report, Mayor Bloomberg defended the tactics.
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Asked about the report, Mayor Bloomberg defended the tactics: “What we do is we try to keep this city safe, totally consistent with what the laws require. We believe that we are compliant with those laws.”
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“What we do is we try to keep this city safe, totally consistent with what the laws require,” he said.
“We believe that we are compliant with those laws.”
But irate Muslim-Americans were calling for a federal probe into the spying that included using informants to record sermons and spy on imams.
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Cheap College Football Jerseys New York Police Department surveillance tactics near police headquarters in New York on Wednesday. The New York Police Department has secretly labeled entire mosques as terrorist organizations, a designation that allows police to use informants to record sermons and spy on imams, often without specific evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
“This is a new level of low for the New York Police Department,” said Linda Sarsour, executive director of the Arab American Association of New York in Brooklyn.
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“As we were inviting Commissioner (Raymond) Kelly and his leadership into our mosques ―
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Sarsour, whose organization helps new immigrants, was among about a dozen Muslim community members calling for a federal probe outside police headquarters.
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"It’s their imagination,”
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“I literally saw that document and saw my organization’s name on it and I started crying,” said Sarsour. “I felt betrayed.”
The report was enough to make Ahmad Jaber, of
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