21 July 2003




FBI Prejudice or Sour Grapes?

Bassem Youssef, who was born in Egypt and is now a naturalized citizen, has filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the FBI. He claims that he has been frozen out of the 9/11 investigations despite his superior qualifications.

The article doesn't give us much to go on. I'd like to know how long Bassem has been a citizen, if his family is Egyptian (or Palestinian or . . .), if he's Coptic, how much of his life he spent in the Middle East, etc. Without these factors, I cannot make a judgement as to whether some sort of careful treatment might have been justified.

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