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There's an article in the Village Voice by a young woman who reported her cab driver to the FBI for seeming foreknowledge he had of the 9/11 attacks. In July 2001, the author took a cab driven by "Aseem", who preceded to tell her he was thinking of leaving the country in August or September because he heard from friends in Egypt that Osama bin Laden was planning major attacks on New York and Washington for that time. He also told her in passing that he was a trained air traffic control and was going to apply to work at LaGuardia airport.
So, if you heard all of this in July 2001, and then the events of September 11th happen, what would you do? Would you report this guy to law enforcement, even though you have no proof of any real illegal activity on his behalf?
For our purposes, would your answer differ if:
(A) you knew that he would likely be deported after being held without legal counsel, as so many have since 9/11, if he was an illegal immigrant.
(B) the process for investigating these matter functioned as a "regular" criminal investigation does.
For my part, I can't fault the actions of the author. If such a chilling coincidence (the driver says at a later interview that "everyone in the Arab world knew") happened to me, I'd probably have done the same thing.
What would push you over the edge to inform? Possible idle chit-chat as above? or would it take seeing bomb plans or anthrax filled envelopes in someone's apartment? Or is your distrust of the government so great that you'd never call? |
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