What is the FBI Doing in Jordan?

27 November 2001

Dear Friends,

There is an incredible story here regarding Ghassan Dahduli, who lived in
America for 22 years, was harassed by the INS and FBI the last three, mostly
by the individual mentioned below, Donna Chabot who now finds herself in
Jordan.  At times she claimed to be FBI, then INS, then Police.  But many in
Dallas think she actually coordinates with the Mossad.  Now she appears to
be in Amman.  Ghassan was arrested the weekend after Sept. 11 events.  He
was arrested at home in front of his 5 American born children, and held in
prison since the deportation yesterday.  NO one knew when they would deport
him, it was secret.  Even his attorney, who sent me this email, did not know
until today.  The charges against Ghassan remain secret as well.

Arabs and Muslims in Dallas know Ghassan, his wife, and his children.  This
man has never done harm to anyone.  His crime from what can be figured out
is that he refused to work as an under-cover agent amongst his community.
His lawyer Karen Pennington tried unsuccessfully to prevent his deportation.

The scoop is Ghassan is being made a scapegoat in the Dallas community to
terrorize and "send a message" to all of the Muslim community in Dallas. The
news is he was asked to be an informant to the FBI and he refused. So he was
dragged out on public television here in Dallas and then deported to Jordan.

Please send letters of support to Karen Pennington (addresses below), and
letters of protest to the media and to the representatives of the Jordanian
and the U.S. governments.  Be aware that the Times of London said on October
22, 2001, that the FBI was considering the use of torture against Arabs and
Muslims arrested in the aftermath of September 11.  One of the methods of
using torture indirectly according to the Times report was to urge Arab and
Muslim states to 'extradite temporarily' some of those arrested in order to
force confessions overseas, without having the hands of the FBI dirtied
directly.

Respectfully,
Concerned Arab and Muslim Americans

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Letter from Ghassan's Lawyer:

Karen Pennington 
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:14:15 -0800 (PST)
From: Karen Pennington

Friends,

Ghassan Dahduli was deported to Jordan
yesterday and arrived in Amman today.  I have
been advised that he was immediately taken into
custody in Amman.  I also understand that Donna
Chabot of the Dallas Joint Anti-Terrorism Task
Force was seen in Amman.  The INS here has
confirmed that he was escorted to Amman by a
supervisory D & R officer, J.T. Lawson, that
Mr. Lawson is currently in Amman, and that he
will not be returning to the US for "several
weeks."

Mr. Lawson had told me last Wednesday that he
would only be accompanying Ghassan to Chicago
unless the Jordanian government asked him to
accompany Ghassan to Jordan.  I don't know more
about what happened right now, but I think the
take home lesson here is that the government
can't be trusted on what they say in these
cases.  Please let anyone know you feel
appropriate.

Niels suggested I write letters to the DOS
trying to assure that his rights under the
Convention Against Torture are not being
violated with the complicity of the US
government.  I'm going to try to prepare those
this evening, but I am not coping very well.  I
am scheduled to be in a training all day
tomorrow, but your advice and insights will be
much appreciated.

Thanks,




Karen H. Pennington
Attorney at Law
2501 Oak Lawn Ave., Suite 100
Dallas, TX  75219
214/521-6679
214/521-5690 Fax
penningtonlaw@yahoo.com

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