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Having a terrorist for a neighbor

1:40 pm on Friday, May 28, 2004

Check out this article by a man who lives down the street from Abu Hamza.

“Your family is not in danger.” Though strictly true, this reassurance does not reassure me at all. The threat from al-Qa’eda is so all-encompassing that it justifies extraordinary measures. Surveillance and denunciation, the knock on the door in the small hours, indefinite detention without trial: all these are methods that we once associated with police states. But they have been forced upon us by the most urgent of necessities.

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