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Anser Mehmood, his wife, Uzma Naheed, and their four children—Umair (15), Uzair (14), Harris (12), and Hassan (1)—used to live in Bayonne, New Jersey. They had moved as a family from Pakistan in 1994, and Hassan was born in the United States in 2000.
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Emily Colborn, “Staging the Home Front: Spectacle, Spectatorship, and Post-Pearl Harbor Raids” (Paper presented at the Dokkyo International Forum on Performance Studies, Japan, December 2002). Many scholars, including Emily Colborn, have discussed the theatrical performance that the FBI created through raids of Japanese Americans during World War II for anxious neighbors, outraged politicians, and sensation-hungry journalists.
Also see Steven Stalinsky, “Arab Press Says Jews Perpetrated 9/11 Attacks,” New York Sun, http://www2.nysun.com/article/38781/article/38781 (accessed April 2, 2008).
Debbie Lang, “The Story of Uzma Naheed,” The article refers to Harris Anser speaking at a February 20, 2002, National Day of Solidarity with Arab, Muslim, and South Asian immigrants. The children also spoke on a television program, Now with Bill Moyers, aired on PBS, March 15, 2002.
see Human Rights Watch, “List of ‘Ghost Prisoners’ Possibly in CIA Custody” (List of Detainees Published by Human Rights Watch, updated December 1, 2005), http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/11/30/usdom12109_txt.htm (accessed March 27, 2008).
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Office of the Inspector General, The September 11 Detainees: A Review of Aliens Held on Immigration Charges in Connection With the Investigation of the September 11 Attacks (U.S. Department of Justice, April 2003), 76.
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Also see Sarah Ferguson, “A Peaceful Movement Emerges,” Village Voice, October 7, 2002.
Also see David Cole and Jules Lobel, “Are We Safer, a Report Card on the War on Terror,” Los Angeles Times, November 18, 2007.
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Mehmood, A., Naheed, U. (2011). Uprooting Immigrants, Uprooting Families. In: Detained without Cause. Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230118096_4
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