Caught Spying on Student, FBI Demands GPS Tracker Back

[Zah]

[QUOTE=evilking1;25309424]"Six months ago, a former roommate of his was visited by FBI agents who said they wanted to speak with Afifi. Afifi contacted one agent and was told the agency received an anonymous tip from someone saying he might be a threat to national security."

"One of the agents produced a printout of a blog post that Afifi’s friend Khaled allegedly wrote a couple of months ago. It had “something to do with a mall or a bomb,” Afifi said. He hadn’t seen it before and doesn’t know the details of what it said."

"The agents also knew he was planning a short business trip to Dubai in a few weeks. Afifi said he often travels for business and has two teenage brothers in Egypt whom he supports financially. They live with an aunt. His U.S.-born mother, who divorced his father five years ago, lives in Arizona."

All islamic people are reported to FBI?

So, roommate posting "something to do with a mall or a bomb", frequent visits to the middle east, money-transfers to Egypt, no wonder he was flagged, even though he (most likely) didn't do anything.

Usually reading the second page is useful too.[/QUOTE]

I had a neighbor a few years ago that was 'flagged' as well. Not sure on his nationality (he did have Arabic like features), but my father received a call from some government agency telling him to keep an eye on the neighbor for national security reasons because someone alerted them of him speaking to someone and mentioning something that was supposedly "against the government".
The dude was an awesome neighbor. too bad he had to move out because of financial issues.

[Aquaphonic]

[QUOTE=Lust;25309515]Wait, so they're putting expensive GPS devices to track EVERY Islamic person in America now?[/QUOTE]

No, just people who are suspected of being a national threat.

[benjojo]

To be honest I would of thought that this:
[img]http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2010/10/GPS-Tracking-Device.jpg[/img]
would be a bomb.

[marticus]

[QUOTE=Kalibos;25310360]uh

99.8% of facepunch doesn't know how to make a good news pun[/QUOTE]

Sometimes I think that's the point nowadays.