Four young Israelis who were arrested by American federal agents on 9/11 have filed a law suit against the Department of Justice in the United States District Court in New York.
The law suit alleges that law enforcement officers and officials of the Bureau of Prisons "unlawfully incarcerated them for an extended period of time and violated their civil rights during their more than two month imprisonment in the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in 2001." The four plaintiffs claim that they were held incommunicado without access to attorneys or family, subjected to rough interrogations, physically assaulted, deprived of sleep and subjected to racists taunting by guards.
The law suit seeks millions of dollars in compensation.
According to the suit, the Israelis were working for a New Jersey moving company when their truck was stopped by police near the George Washington Bridge. When it was discovered that they possessed foreign drivers licenses, the officers placed them under arrest as suspects in the 9/11 attacks.
They were handed over to federal agents for weeks of interrogations.
Following these arrests, there were claims that Israel was behind the 9/11 attacks. (albawaba.com)
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