Nasser Ahmed is a victim of anti-terrorism laws. He's an Egyptian living
in Brooklyn for more then a decade. A husband and father who worked as
an electrical engineer, he was arrested by the INS on the basis of secret
evidence that neither he nor his lawyers were allowed to see. Ahmed was
held without being charged for three and a half years, mostly in solitary
confinement, in a federal prison in New York City until late 1999, when
the government was ordered to release him by an immigration judge. Soon
after more than two dozen others held in immigration jails on secret evidence
were also released. Ahmed maintained that the FBI was desperate to use
him as an informant in the Muslim community where Agents admits they have
few assets.
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