bY ALFONSO CHARDY
Knight Ridder Newspapers
Posted on Tue, May. 10, 2005

MIAMI - (KRT) - Samir J. Hussain, an Iraqi national, was detained by Border Patrol agents when the Greyhound bus that he was traveling on stopped in Fort Lauderdale on July 24, 2003.

Hussain was taken to the Krome detention center in West Miami-Dade where he was held for months while his case was resolved.

While in detention, he says, he was "harassed and taunted" by other detainees, "labeled a terrorist" and "blamed for the 9/11" attacks. [...] Read the rest at the Lexington Herald-Leader at kentucky.com: http://tinyurl.com/blvmj


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