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Document shows NYPD eyed Shiites based on religion (AP)

A woman walks past the Al-Mahdi Foundation in New York, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. As it canvassed the Northeast looking for Iranian terrorists, the New York Police Department recommended increasing surveillance of thousands of Shiite Muslims and their mosques based solely on their religion, according to interviews and a newly obtained secret police document. The document offers a rare glimpse into the thinking of NYPD intelligence officers and how it drove the department’s aggressive spying operations. The Associated Press has reported for months that the NYPD infiltrated mosques, eavesdropped in cafes and monitored entire Muslim neighborhoods with plainclothes officers. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - The New York Police Department recommended increasing surveillance of thousands of Shiite Muslims and their mosques, based solely on their religion, as a way to sweep the Northeast for signs of Iranian terrorists, according to interviews and a newly obtained secret police document.


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