USA 2 Teenage Girls - Suicide Bombers

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Saturday April 09, 2005 19:36

by mise

NEW YORK -- Two 16-year-old girls are suspected of planning suicide bombings in the United States, according to a newspaper report.

The New York Times reported that the girls were arrested March 24 on immigration charges and remain in custody in Pennsylvania. One is from Bangladesh and the other is from Guinea, and they were living in the country illegally.

The Times reported it obtained a government document that described the teens as being an imminent threat to the United States "based upon evidence that they plan to be suicide bombers."

A spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement will only confirm that two juveniles are in custody on "administrative immigration violations."

An Islamic community activist said one of the girls came under investigation for skipping school. When federal agents searched her home they found an essay about suicide and Islam on her computer.

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09/04/2005
By NINA BERNSTEIN

Published: April 9, 2005

At Heritage High School in East Harlem, where the student idiom is hip-hop and salsa, the 16-year-old Guinean girl stood out, but not just because she wore Islamic dress. She was so well liked that when she ran for student body president, she came in second to one of her best friends - the Christian daughter of the president of the parent-teacher association, Deleen P. Carr.

Now Ms. Carr, a speech pathologist who calls herself "a typical American citizen," is as outraged as the girl's teachers and classmates, who have learned that the girl and another 16-year-old are being called would-be suicide bombers and are being held in an immigration detention center in Pennsylvania.

"They have painted this picture of her as this person that is trying to destroy our way of life, and I know in my heart of hearts that this is bogus," said Ms. Carr, who welcomed the Guinean girl to her house daily and knows her family well. "I feel like, how dare they? She's a minor, and even if she's not a citizen, she has rights as a human being."

According to a government document provided to The New York Times by a federal official earlier this week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has asserted that both girls are "an imminent threat to the security of the United States based on evidence that they plan to be suicide bombers." No evidence was cited, and federal officials will not comment on the case.

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