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The U.S. Army sent intelligence agents to investigate a conference about women and Islam at the UT School of Law.
UT law student and organizer Sahar Aziz was shocked at the Army's interest and methods.
"It was not a terrorism related conference. It was very benign ? The reason why we put it together is there had been a lot of debate on campus about these issues due to the burka [face-covering mask worn by Muslim women] in Afghanistan and Iraq," she said.
A few days later, two U.S. Army intelligence agents showed up and wanted a list of all the people who attended the conference.
They approached Jessica Biddle, who helped Aziz get funding for the event.
"[I said] that he was intimidating me and is there a problem? His response was 'no, no problem, we're investigating a couple of people who attended the conference and we need to see the list,'" Biddle said.
Friday, February 13, 2004
Stifle It
This is lovely: