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A suspicious backpack left at a Muslim home should be treated as a hate crime, part of a possible backlash against the Boston Marathon bombings, the Council on American-Islamic Relations said Sunday.
"We will be asking the FBI and state law enforcement authorities to investigate it," said the group's spokesman, Ibrahim Hooper.
On Saturday, state bomb investigators responded to a report of a suspicious backpack left at a residence on Cass Avenue near Woonsocket High School.