FBI meets with Arab American leaders to quell spy allegations

by Santiago Esparza
Detroit News
April 30, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1638/fbi-meets-with-arab-american-leaders-to-quell-spy

Excerpt:

Federal law enforcement officers met with a group of Arab American leaders today to combat rumors the FBI is forcing people of Middle Eastern ties to work as informants.

Over the past six months, the rumors have intensified that FBI agents are coercing people across the country to spy for the agency at mosques and other meeting places where Arab Americans and Muslims gather.

But Andrew Arena, special agent in charge of the FBI's Detroit office, said the rumors are not true during the meeting, which was held at the Lebanese American Heritage Club.

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