The FBI detained a sixteen-year-old girl as a suspected suicide bomber with no evidence.
Evidence
On March 24, 2005, Adama Bah, a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl, awoke at dawn to discover nearly a dozen armed FBI agents inside her family’s apartment in East Harlem. They arrested her and her father, Mamadou Bah, and transported them to separate detention facilities. A government document leaked to the press claimed that Adama was a potential suicide bomber but failed to provide any evidence to support this claim. Released after six weeks in detention, Adama was forced to live under partial house arrest with an ankle bracelet, a government-enforced curfew, and a court-issued gag order that prohibited her from speaking about her case. In August of 2006, Adama’s father was deported back to Guinea, Africa. Adama, who had traveled to the United States with her parents from Guinea as a child, also found herself facing deportation. She would spend the next few years fighting for asylum and struggling to support her family in the United States and Guinea [emphasis added]. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 565
Categorization
- XREF: Corroborates Aziz/Razack claims on unfounded post-9/11 detention; adds the concrete Adama Bah case as citable evidence. — connects to: A teenage Muslim girl was arrested and detained on an un-evidenced suicide-bomber claim
- ADDENDUM: Could support either the Islamophobia cluster essays — demonstrates preemptive detention reaching a minor with no evidence.