Muslim commercial pilot placed on no-fly and terrorist watch lists |
| Published: August 20, 2008, 10:12 am |
| Tags: social news, technology, american civil liberties union, civil liberties union |
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Erich Scherfen, a commercial pilot was put on TSA’s no-fly list and his wife, Rabina Tareen, on the terrorist watch-list for reasons that no one will disclose, apart from them being Muslims. A Gulf War veteran and his wife say they’ve been unfairly placed on a federal list that limits their commercial flight access and threatens his job as a commercial pilot. To fight back, the couple, who are Muslim, filed a lawsuit today against a host of U.S. government agencies. “We don’t know why they’re on the list. They don’t know why they’re on the list. The government won’t tell us why they’re on the list,” said Amy Foerster, an attorney with Saul Ewing, who is providing pro bono counsel and working with the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and the Schuylkill County couple on the case, which was filed in U.S. district court. The suit filed against the U.S. departments of Homeland Security and Justice and the FBI, among [ Full article ] |
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