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>Crowd protests at Illinois mosque
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>By MELANIE COFFEE
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>Sept. 13, 2001 | BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. (AP) -- 
>
>A perhaps predictable backlash hit several communities as federal 
>officials said there was mounting evidence that radical Muslims planned 
>and carried out the terror attacks in New York and Washington. 
>
>Police turned back 300 marchers -- some waving American flags and shouting 
>"USA! USA!" -- as they tried to march on a mosque in this southwest 
>Chicago suburb late Wednesday. 
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>Three demonstrators were arrested, said Bridgeview Police Chief Charles 
>Chigas. There were no injuries and demonstrators were kept blocks from the 
>closed Muslim worship place. 
>
>"I'm proud to be American and I hate Arabs and I always have," said 
>19-year-old Colin Zaremba who marched with the group from Oak Lawn. 
>
>Federal authorities said they had identified more than a dozen hijackers 
>of Middle Eastern descent in Tuesday's attacks and gathered evidence 
>linking them to Saudi-born terror mastermind Osama bin Laden and other 
>terrorist networks. In all, perhaps 50 people were involved in the plot, 
>government officials said. 
>
>In Chicago, a Molotov cocktail was tossed Wednesday at an Arab-American 
>community center. No one was injured, and there was little damage. 
>
>"The terrorists who committed these horrible acts would like nothing 
>better than to see us tear at the fiber of our democracy and to trample on 
>the rights of other Americans," Gov. George Ryan said. 
>
>In Huntington, N.Y., a 75-year-old man who was drunk tried to run over a 
>Pakistani woman in the parking lot of a shopping mall, police said. The 
>man, Adam Lang, then followed the woman into a store and threatened to 
>kill her for "destroying my country." 
>
>In Gary, Ind., a man in a ski mask fired a high-powered assault rifle at 
>the gas station where Hassan Awdah, a U.S. citizen born in Yemen, was 
>working, the Gary Post Tribune reported. Gary Police are investigating it 
>as a hate crime. 
>
>"I lived in the Middle East for most of my life and have never seen 
>anything like this," Awdah said. 

>"You feel the pain twice: Once because of what has happened and once 
>because of the looks you get," said Sami Al-Arian, an engineering teacher 
>at the University of South Florida. 

>Abu Nahidian, director of the Manassas Mosque in Virginia, said his 
>congregation has been the target of insults and hate messages left on the 
>office answering machine. 

>"We have some recordings in our tapes that say, 'We hate you so-and-so 
>Muslims and we hope you die,"' Nahidian said. 

>A mosque in Lynnwood, Wash., was vandalized and no one showed up for 
>afternoon prayers at the Islamic Center of Spokane. 

>"We must not hurt or terrorize Americans of Arab descent or Islamic 
>faith," Gov. Gary Locke said Wednesday during a memorial service at the 
>Puyallup Fair. Issam Koussan told the Detroit News he bought large U.S. 
>flags to fly in front of his home and outside his supermarket after men in 
>a car pulled into his parking lot and yelled threats and racial slurs at 
>his customers. 

>"I just feel I needed to show my loyalty to this country," he said. 

>Associated Press






>George W. Bush:
>"Tomorrow, when you get back to work, work hard like you always have.
>But we've been warned. We've been warned there are evil people in this world."