Islam in America

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Spying Program May Be Tested by Terror Case

By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: August 26, 2007
The New York Times
The case of two men convicted of supporting terrorism is central in a push to challenge an eavesdropping program.

"ALBANY, Aug. 22 — After a bloody raid by American military forces on an enemy camp in Rawah, Iraq, on June 11, 2003, a Defense Department report took inventory. Eighty suspected terrorists killed. An enormous weapons cache recovered. And, in what the report called “pocket litter,” a notebook with the name and phone number of the imam of a mosque halfway around the world, here in the state capital."

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