Four young Israeli men arrested as terror
suspects on the George Washington Bridge on Sept. 11, 2001, have filed
a multimillion-dollar suit against the Justice Department. The
plaintiffs - ages 22 to 26 - say they were held for two months without
access to lawyers or family at the Metropolitan Detention Center in
Brooklyn, where they were roughly interrogated, assaulted, deprived of
sleep and subjected to racist taunts from guards. The suit alleges
civil rights violations. The Israelis were working for a New Jersey
moving company when their truck was stopped by cops near the bridge
hours after terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center. When cops
found the men had foreign driver's licenses, they were arrested.
Authorities were apparently concerned about any attempt to blow up the
bridge. The four were eventually cleared and released. [more ]
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