Suspended Muslim Safety Expert Sues DHS

[Eugene]

Suspended Muslim Safety Expert Sues DHS


Friday September 15, 2006 1:01 AM

By WAYNE PARRY

Associated Press Writer

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - An Egyptian-born aviation security expert is suing the U.S.
government, claiming he was wrongly suspended from his Transportation Security
Administration job based on a classified FBI file the government won't let him
see.

Wagih H. Makky filed the lawsuit Thursday in federal court in Newark, alleging
he was harassed and discriminated against at work after the Sept. 11 terror
attacks based on his nationality and his Muslim religion.

The lawsuit claims Makky is one of the world's leading experts in designing and
evaluating technology to prevent explosives from being smuggled onto airplanes
and rail cars. Makky, 55, a U.S. citizen, most recently worked at the TSA
aviation center outside Atlantic City.

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According to the lawsuit, a new supervisor in 2002 asked Makky during their first
meeting about his ethnic background. When the U.S. invasion of Iraq began in March
2003, the supervisor placed him on administrative leave, based on the classified
file, according to the lawsuit.

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Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6081122,00.html

[HuffleClaw]

1. disgusting

the 'new supervisor' has some explaining to do. 'during their first meeting'. yuck. and next they'll claim he can't sue because the evidence is a 'security matter'.

[MADem]

2. It isn't disgusting, it's the way it is--and has been since Nahn Wun Wun

Believe me, if you have LIVED in the middle east, have friends from the region, understand the cultures...you're fucked. Unless you're a heavy GOP donor, or better yet, a Ranger or a Pioneer.

It does not matter if you are a fat Baptist black woman, a midwestern Rastafarian Native American, a short Lutheran German-Norwegian or a tall Catholic Irishman, if you've done any time over there--even on official business--you're screwed. You are ON THEIR LIST, and subject to harassment for the rest of your natural life, or until we get a real government back again.

This guy 'hit the trifecta' by being of Egyptian ancestry and being Muslim as well. But he could be a Church of England Scotsman, and if he'd spent any time over there and had friends from there, they'd find an excuse to get his ass gone.

It's how they're working it, nowadays.

[gWbush is Mabus]

3. it's kind of like the new "gold star"