The Forgotten Government Plan to Round Up Muslisms (Politico)

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Politico: The Forgotten Government Plan to Round Up Muslisms

 

So many good passages here. Great reporting from Politico. Just an interesting, worthy read.

 

In the early morning hours of January 26, 1987, federal agents across Los Angeles charged into the homes of seven men and one woman and led them away in handcuffs. More than 100 law enforcement officerscity, state and federalwere involved. War on Terrorism Hits LA, read the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner.

 

...The case quickly became a mess, and in the end, 20 years of legal wrangling would pass before a judge would call the case an embarrassment to the rule of law. But in the first days of the defense, the lawyers for the men who would become known as the LA Eight were turning over a greater puzzle: why their clients had been targeted in the first place.

 

And then the document arrived.