投稿者 佐藤雅彦 日時 2001 年 10 月 29 日 19:00:40:
●最新の報道によれば、９・１１事変が発生するやＦＢＩはただちに
電話盗聴を開始し、“喝采”を叫んだ人々を数百人規模で逮捕した
とのこと。
●これはまさに旧東ドイツのシュタージ（Stasi: Staatssicherheitsdienst
＝ State Security Service：国家秘密警察）顔負けであります。
●「恒久的な自由」って誰の自由なの？ 得票をごまかして大統領の
椅子を盗むような連中の、ヤリ放題のことなのでしょうか。（藁
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The New York Times
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/29/world/world10.html
FBI agents round up all the humorous suspects
（By Neil Lewis and David Johnston in Washington）
Within hours of the attacks on September 11, FBI agents intercepted
telephone calls in which suspected associates of al-Qaeda in the United
States were overheard celebrating.
In the following days, agents swept in and arrested them and have been
holding them since - some as material witnesses, based on the information
picked up in the phone calls.
These suspects are among hundreds of people detained after the attacks.
Agents made requests for the intercepts barely minutes after the aircraft
hit the World Trade Centre. They knew from past terrorist acts that Osama
bin Laden's followers often phoned to congratulate each other after a
successful operation.
While the precise contents of the intercepted phone calls have not been
disclosed, officials have said some were congratulatory, even gloating.
Yet it remains unclear whether the people involved in the conversations were
participants in the plot, or merely exulting in the audacity of the attacks.
None of the people arrested on the basis of the intercepts is co-operating
with the authorities, and none has been charged.
Law enforcement officials have said that before September 11 they did not
believe they had sufficient evidence to ask a court to authorise wiretaps of
people suspected of being al-Qaeda sympathisers. But after the attacks they
abandoned their reluctance, and the requests were quickly approved.
Among those arrested as a result of these intercepts and other information
are several material witnesses in the case, the officials said, though they
would not identify them or discuss the contents of the intercepted
communications.
They did say that the tone of the conversations was happy - laughing and
joking at the success of the attacks, a pattern of behaviour that
parallelled what occurred after the bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and
Tanzania in August 1998.
The officials would not say how many people were detained through the
telephone intercepts, nor would they discuss evidence that any of them
proved to be al-Qaeda members or other militants planning specific terrorist
actions.
The most that law enforcement officials said about the fruits of the
detentions arising from the telephone intercepts was that they believed they
had netted al-Qaeda sympathisers who might have been in the early stages of
terrorist plots.
The government's eavesdropping of bin Laden's followers in the US remains a
highly classified operation, one of the least known areas of the FBI's
counter-terrorism program.
Many civil liberties advocates are worried that the large number of arrests
may be improper. David Cole, a lawyer with the Centre for Constitutional
Rights, said: "It's remarkable how little information is available about
these people. It begins to feel like those countries where they lock people
up and don't tell anyone about it. That's not how this country was run until
September 11.''
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