Gore Decries Treatment of Arabs Post 9-11

[in_cog_ni_to]

Gore Decries Treatment of Arabs Post 9-11
By JIM KRANE, Associated Press Writer
Mon Feb 13, 6:10 AM

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia - Former Vice President Al Gore told a mainly Saudi audience on Sunday that the U.S. government committed "terrible abuses" against Arabs after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and that most Americans did not support such treatment.

Gore said Arabs had been "indiscriminately rounded up" and held in "unforgivable" conditions. The former vice president said the Bush administration was playing into al-Qaida's hands by routinely blocking Saudi visa applications.

"The thoughtless way in which visas are now handled, that is a mistake," Gore said during the Jiddah Economic Forum. "The worst thing we can possibly do is to cut off the channels of friendship and mutual understanding between Saudi Arabia and the United States."

Gore told the largely Saudi audience, many of them educated at U.S. universities, that Arabs in the United States had been "indiscriminately rounded up, often on minor charges of overstaying a visa or not having a green card in proper order, and held in conditions that were just unforgivable."<snip>

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[Missy M]

1. and the abuses continue to this day. How many innocent ...

Arabs are being held in prison and being detained with no counsel? We will never know.

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

:kick:

[in_cog_ni_to]

3. Thanks Uncle Joe! I thought this would be a big hit here today.

Gore is ON FIRE lately. I'm hoping he's planning a run in '08 and that's why he's being so public.