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IP: Nation of tipsters answers FBI's call
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 10:05:14 -0500
Seems to me Nazi Germany and Stalin USSR used tipsters extensively with great success djf
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 00:44:32 -0500 To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu> From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com> Nation of tipsters answers FBI's call Citizens offer good leads, but is U.S. now society of snitches? By Ann Davis, Maureen Tkacik and Andrea Petersen THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Nov. 21 - Maybe it was something, maybe it was nothing, thought Himanshu "Bobby" Shah, manager of the Best Western Maryland Inn in College Park, Md. On the very day that terrorists staged attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Shah noticed that a hotel guest had abandoned his folding suitcase and backpack outside Room 157 on the ground floor. The man, who had paid $77 cash for his room and shown an Egyptian passport as I.D., had checked out a few hours earlier. SHAH WALKED PAST the bags, sitting in a covered outdoor walkway, several times. "You don't just leave your luggage outside half a day," he thought to himself. After a maid and a groundskeeper also mentioned the bags, the 28-year-old native of Gujarat, India, began to worry: What if his employees doubted his patriotism? "I want them to understand that I care for their safety. They might be thinking, 'Bobby's a foreigner. Why isn't he taking the right step?' " Taking the right step has become a lot more complicated in the weeks since Attorney General John Ashcroft asked Americans to report any suspicious activity that might involve terrorism. Law-enforcement authorities have fielded 435,000 tips as of Nov. 6, and detained more than 1,100 people. The Justice Department recently drew up a list of 5,000 Middle Eastern men it wants to question further. ... http://www.msnbc.com/news/661366.asp
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