News ID: 1346
Publish Date: 04 February 2012 - 13:50
Document shows police secretly eyed Muslims based on religious sect
Imam Malik Sakhawat Hussain, left, leads prayers at the Al-Mahdi Foundation in New York, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. As it canvassed the Northeast looking for Iranian terrorists, the New York Police Department recommended increasing surveillance of thousands of Shiite Muslims and their mosques based solely on their religion, according to interviews and a newly obtained secret police document. The document offers a rare glimpse into the thinking of NYPD intelligence officers and how it drove the departments aggressive spying operations. The Associated Press has reported for months that the NYPD infiltrated mosques, eavesdropped in cafes and monitored entire Muslim neighborhoods with plainclothes officers.


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