ATTACK BY HITMEN FOR SOMALIA'S DIAMONDS / OIL/ GAS - AMERICA 2004 - 2005 ( EMAILS)

8/3/2019 ATTACK BY HITMEN FOR SOMALIA'S DIAMONDS / OIL/ GAS - AMERICA 2004 - 2005 ( EMAILS)

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RESIGNATION LETTER TO GM OF DISH NETWORK IN

GEORGIA FROM CENTRIVILLE,VA AUGUST, 2004

_______________________________________________

Dear Eddie Ramirez,

Id love to continue to work for your company. Im not sure if I can do that anymore,your tools will be returned to you soon. My best wishes and unconditional exculpationfor all the DNSC team!

Thank you,

Anwar Abdi

EMAIL TO HR MANAGER OF DISH NETWORK IN

GEORGIA AFTER WORK PLACE MOBBING

5th May 2004

Neki MckenzieHR manager

DISH Network Service L. L. C.

205 satellite blvd., Suite 500

Suwanee, GA 30024

I, Anwar Abdi, Automation Engineer by profession joined Dish Network on 5th May 04,as an entry level Field Service Specialist (FSS1).

The standard Dish Network instructor led training is normally a week long plus twoweeks hands-on riding with technicians. I attended one day of in-house training inKennesaw office. After which I was told to ride with senior technicians to learn handson.

What followed afterwards is a systemic discrimination and favoritism. Instead of gettingthe basics of Dish Installation; I was not treated fairly at all. My looks were ridiculed; Iwas called all kinds of abusive names. There was unfair treatment in job assignment aswell. Sometimes my name would be on the raw sheet with a senior tech and it waschanged two or three times. For example I rode with different technicians almost daily;Benitez and Dvaughn were riding with only one or two techs the whole time. The othernew techs were treated with preference. When I asked why, Brian Ellis said becausenobody wants to ride with you. I thought DNSC had strict policy on training new


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technicians and ensuring their fair and impartial treatment. There was no standardtraining. Field Service Managers, coerced the technicians to unplug me from the doingthe actual work and instructed them to do check switch on me.

Noticing the aura of impunity and how far spread the discrimination was, I had to report

it to Eddie Ramirez, the DNSC regional manager for the southeast.

For some reason, I was not given any tools to work with till early June. And when I wasgiven some tools, they were not enough to do the job. I had to buy belt and ratchet socketand other tools. When Worthy informed them that I had bought some, they gave me theratchet and the belt. This was more than a coincidence. My stripper and crimp tool werestolen when I was riding with Dvaughn. Till now I dont have the tools needed to do thejob. The standard procedure for providing new tools is broken down; literally you have tobeg for them. So far Ive signed for Signal level meter only. The new tools came in asdroplets one after the other with time gaps.

I was called to the office two times already, simply because: Ive asked for tools. I talkedto Larry, the warehouse guy, early in the morning; hed asked to come back later. When Icame to get supplies for the day, Larry told me to come back after loading the van. AgainI came back after loading the van and asked Larry if was possible to get the tools. AndLenox did not like the fact that I was getting tools so he had to come between me adLarry. I told him politely that I didnt need an interpreter, that my English was fine.Leaving him and Larry, Ive told Lenox that if he was concerned about my educationalbackground among other things, its never too late to go to tech school. The othertechnicians that were with me at the training have been on their own for two weeks now!

Ive been the subject of morning gossip on daily basis. On 23 June, 04, I was the subjectof the ATM although the topic was dog bites yet it was obvious enough to beunderstood by any fool. Among other speakers, worthy named two dogs, one of thembeing me I suppose, hed also talked about how to stop them from biting. Other speakersalso used cats to describe the subject.

I want to bring to your attention that discrimination based my nationality and religion isagainst the law. My job performance is better than some technicians that were herebefore me. I want to be transferred from the A shift to B shift to avoid this discriminationand aura of impunity. I will not get equal treatment from my supervisors under thepresent conditions.

Anwar Abdi

EMAIL TO COUSINS IN VIRGINIA AFTER THEY

LET ME DOWN

15/DEC/2004 FROM SAN DIEGO, CA15-Dec-2004


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AbdiAziz Awil AbdiAbshir Awil AbdiAbdisamad Awil Abdi

5553 Suly Lake Dr.Centreville, VA 20120

Tel. (703) 222 3936

Dear Cousins,

Im writing to express my gratitude for your hospitality during the short stayin Virginia. In Somali tradition the honor, blood and property of next in kinis respected and sacred. American family values and the Somali values are

very close. Even though, we didnt meet for two decades, I have to say youdid not respect our family relations. Every family has its problems, it is nottaboo to talk about the circumstance of my sister Shamiss death. Anddefinitely you did not have to pull my legs into shit hole, risking my freedomand safety.

Sometimes you need to take tough stand based on facts and whats right.Instead you went for the 5 grand and the schemes.Ahmed Mohamed Farah(Shoombe)said, Theyll kill him, dont kill yourselves. I also overheardyou say, We dont care where they take him, even if they kill him. Foryour information were not in Somalia where its so easy to take someoneslife. In the United States it is against law to deprive any person of life,liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor to deny any person theequal protection of law.

In October, you guys tried to set me up three times knowing quite well myinnocence. I heard Abdisamad lie to his over-the-phone supervisor and evenmake the suggestion to eliminate me. So you want my death for no reason?This is more than being disingenuous, Im sorry to say it is outright

cannibalism.

When I was about to go to Ohio with Mr. Mire, you tried to set me up so Idbe supposedly dealt with in January 2005 pending new anti-refugee laws.That attempt failed thanks to my lawyer John Lawrence. Im still figuringout what forced Abdisamad to tick and lie, was it cowardice or personalvendetta? No grudge on my part, understandably you gave in to your


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insecurities and Shombes whim. Shombe uncovered himself when he camerunning after the emails about Abdiaziz, Abshir as the Ethiopians, theclearance, and Abdisamad as the Isaaq guy. After few more trials I hadgood picture of who he was. And what about the stunt: the fake $ 3500receipt for Allen Eberts lip service. Abshir said to Mr. Hirad , We have tostop him, or else hell pass them. Mohamud Hirad is an honest man; hedidnt want to get involved. Intelligence and good judgment is a gift. If its

Gods will, I will prosper and succeed, despite the odds.

I dont care if its my cousins, the guys at Dishnetwork, Putin or others; nomatter how you instigate trouble between me and the U.S. government, youwill fail. Because when all's said and done the truth will prevail. There aremany adversaries, who would not like me to be successful, never had Ithought you would be amongst them.

I genuinely believe that America is the champion of liberty and humanrights. Somalia is unruly and failed state in the middle of civil-war. I came toAmerica legally as a refugee from Russia. I put my trust in God, good

people, laws of the United States, intl refugee law and international humanrights law.

Fortunately, in the U.S. there are hundreds of supporters and well-wishersincluding close relatives (minus 3) and friends, who knew me in Russia,UAE and as a child in Somalia.

My cousins, hope you have CONSCIENCE and change for the better,

Anwar

A good person is the one who keeps his/her tongue and hand from harmingother people.

THANK YOU EMAIL AFTER INTERVIEW AT

EMERSON/CORNERSTONE CONTROLS IN CINCINNATI,

OHIO IN JULY 2004

Kari Backen,Sr. Acc. Recruiting Manager,


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Aerotek,5181 Natorp Blvd.Suite 201Mason,OH 45040

Hi Kari,

Thank you for taking the time to meet with me at Aerotek.Ive enjoyed the meeting with Ian, Tim and Mark at Cornerstone. Iinquired about the time frame of the project, over all the interviewwent smoothly.

I certainly appreciate your time and look forward to hear from youin the near future.

Anwar Abdi_____________________________________________________

EMAIL TO NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD

REQUESTING LEGAL OBSERVER 2005

ANWAR ABDI1215 Khyber Lane NE | Columbia Heights | MN 55421 |

Tel: 1-612-2263763 [email protected]

Jordan KushnerNational Lawyers Guild Minnesota1360-F University Ave W #173Saint Paul, MN 55104

Dear Mr. Kushner,

Im writing to you to request legal guidance. Im a new refugee from Somalia whosharassed by the government and whose human rights are threatened because of somepolitical game.

My problems started last summer almost a year after coming to the United States. I leftSomalia in the 80s after civil-war started in some parts of the country. Previously, Ivelived in the Russian Federation for about 10 years, one year in Ukraine and finished high


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school in Abu-Dhabi. I was registered refugee with the UNHCR Moscow office sinceDecember 1993: UNHCR REG. # 96RF015252. In Russia, I studied and got a degree inAutomation and Control Systems.

Russian Federation would not integrate African refugees, so the UNHCR Resettlement

Unit helped us move to third countries namely Canada, Norway and US. In 2003, I wasadmitted to the United States after undergoing rigorous security and medical screening process. I was sponsored by the US State Dept. Refugee Resettlement Program andresettled in Atlanta through Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services: CASE # RS-101634. Alien # A 94544867.

In Atlanta I got a job as automation engineer and later as satellite dish installer. In July2004 in the run up to the presidential elections, I became the subject of intensegovernment (FBI, GBI) surveillance for no apparent reason. I was followed by agents inunmarked cars even at work. I got job offer in Cincinnati and went there for theinterview, I was followed. While away my room was searched, my car was searched.

On 30th July 2004 I went to change driver license at Lithonia DMVS. While waiting formy number to be called I was bombarded with psychological messages for five hours,like strangers would know personal and intimates things about me and speak so I couldhear it. It was a sophisticated psychological attack; I kept my cool and came back thenext day. I was followed by unmarked cars in a way that demonstrated I was beingheavily surveilled. I was singled out for special treatment and thought politics were themotive.

For no probable cause, on Monday 2nd and Tuesday 3rd of August 2004 attempts to arrestme were made. At that moment I spoke out and called different civil rights monitoringgroups: Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the United Nations. I alsocalled the office of a congress woman.

I left Atlanta for Washington DC to seek clarification and recourse.

In Northern Virginia, I stayed with relatives. They were pressured to turn me in as a madman or else I would be killed. They were so scared they could not even give a ride to seehuman rights lawyer. On 30th August, under police escort I was taken to Mt VernonMental Hospital in Alexandria, Va. I slept the night. In the morning, as I woke up guyswere working on the ventilation in the hall way in front of my room. Then theyd comeinside the room to work on the sockets and ventilation. At midnight strange smelling gaswas in the room. It was suffocating; I pulled the bed near the door and stayed awake allnight. I approached the nurse telling her about the bleach/chlorine smelling gas. The nextday, my blood pressure was abnormally high. One of the nurses said, We dont have togive him anything, he smoked enough. Because of irregular heart beat and abnormalhigh blood pressure I easily could have died of Cardiac Arrest and the reasons wouldhave been natural. I complained and was transferred to North Virginia Mental HealthInstitute in Falls-Church, Va., where I was psychologically abused further by undercover people; there were threats, shouts, cursing, and forceful medication of peoplea real


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production. I survived gas and other attempts to kill me. I kept cool and avoided irrationalresponse.

I was under intense pressure. My relatives were given money and pressured to turnagainst me to save themselves even as we lived in the same house. In September and

October 2004, with a relative I used to go to Borders, Barnes & Noble and Starbucks, wewere followed everywhere. I was bombarded with psychological messages. There werethreats to arrest and deport me from the country.

After November 2nd 2004 presidential election, I wanted to leave for Ohio, for no reasonagain under police escort I was taken to Mt. Vernon Mental Hospital in Alexandria. I waskept there for five days. On discharge, I flew to San Diego, California where my sisterlived.

In San Diego, I was under surveillance. In early December 2004 I came to Minnesota torebuild my life since theres a large Somali community here. Again I was the subject of

surveillance.

There has been heavy surveillance on me in five States: Ohio, Georgia, Virginia,California, and Minnesota. I wondered why the government brought me here in the firstplace. What if I was killed and it was made to appear natural? I was humiliated andfrustrated at St. Paul DMV when I went there to change my driver license.

In order to publicize the truth and to leave a trail in case something happened or Idisappeared, I created a website. There were many funny commercials on Super-bowlgame and afterwards about the story. This resulted in my emails beingblocked/intercepted and filtered in clear violation of rights of privacy or correspondence.

Can't happen in a "land of liberty" that supposedly opens its arms to "huddled massesyearning to breathe free"? Unfortunately, my rights under articles 2, 3, 5 and 12 of theUniversal Declaration of Human Rights are seriously violated.

I need the help of the National Lawyers Guild Minnesota to defend my civil rights as arefugee under U.S. law, Universal Declaration of Human Rights and 1951GenevaConvention and 1967 Protocol relating to the status of refugees.

1) What recourse would a refugee have if he/she was chosen to be framed andparaded in media circus for political gain in a presidential election, and when themission failed, he/she was forcefully medicated and labeled insane person? Andwhat if attempts to eliminate that refugee continue? What protection can such arefugee have under international and U.S. laws?

2) What recourse would a refugee have if law enforcement assumed a refugee'sguilt and then bombarded that refugee for months with psychological messages-- from coworkers, friends, and relatives -- in an attempt to coerce a "confession"of a crime unspecified? And if law enforcement also had that refugee followed


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daily in marked or unmarked cars and vans, and demonstrated through messagesthat the refugee was being heavily surveilled, even in the refugee's car and home?

3) Is it possible to correct distorted medical records, and who could be liable forattempts to kill a refugee and psychological abuses that he/she had suffered at Mt.Vernon Mental Hospital and North Virginia Mental Health Institute in the guiseof forced psychiatric help?

4) How will an internationally protected person be able to clear his/her name afterbeen labeled communist or terrorist by law enforcement without any evidenceto substantiate such claims except religion or ethnicity? And if disinformation isspread in the community and general public so as to make it impossible forhim/her to find a job for livelihood?

5) What remedy would a refugee have under United States and international lawafter suffering attacks on his/her personal life, health, honor and reputation?What could be done to stop government harassment of a refugee thats supposedto be protected?

Whats happening to me is against everything that America stands for; Im the victim ofpolitical theater. Please help me with a lawyer to give me legal guidance.

Thank you for your consideration and understanding.

Yours sincerely,Anwar Abdi

ATTACKS BY MONEY HITMEN FORDIAMONDS /OIL IN SOMALIA

ANWAR M. ABDI | SOMALIA| 2005

BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND EXPLANATION

BACKGROUND:

My name is Anwar M. Abdi, was born on Dec. 30th

in Somalia. In the mid80s there was fighting and curfews were placed in the parts of the countryand there was sense that civil-war was looming near. I was a child when

parents concerned for security arranged for me to live in Abu-dhabi UAEwith relatives. Full-blown civil-war broke out in Somalia in 1991, my familymembers were displaced as refugees and many relatives killed.


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In 1992, after completing high school, it was difficult for relatives to supportme. I was worried that if I stayed in UAE, Id have problems as UAE wasnot accepting Somali refugees and may deport me to Somalia where therewas war. In that same year, I came to Kiev Ukraine with the prospects ofgoing to Western Europe. However I was afraid to travel with smugglers asit was dangerous adventure and there was war in Somalia.

I approached and registered with UNHCR office in Moscow in Dec., 1993.While in Moscow I studied at Moscow Power Engineering Institute,Academy of Oil and Gas before graduating from Ufa State PetroleumTechnological University in Ufa, Russia in 2001. I changed schools becauseof insufficient funds.

I did not want to return to Somalia because I feared reprisals from feuding

militias. With so many killings and the tradition of collective punishmentand revenge, I would be easy target in a country in civil-war where I had notlived since my childhood.

In July 2001, my case was passed to UNHCR Resettlement Unit in Moscow.The Resettlement Unit passed cases to the embassies of U.S., Canada and

Norway. In 2003, I was one of those resettled in the U.S.

FIRST JOB:

I had to find job and pay my bills from January 2004. I worked for EmersonProcess Management through a home based business Indagro till March 04.The arrangement was not standard and Emerson employees obviously didnot like it since some paperwork was omitted. They kept complaining thathiring procedures were not met. While I was there, Ive completed twotraining courses, DeltaV Implementation in Austin TX and DeltaV Batch inAtlanta GA.

Igor Berkovich, the vice president, had some trouble with John Haideman, a

project manager with Emerson. Apparently John had trouble managing hisproject in Puerto Rico. I was given a room next to John who did not like thatarrangement. He saw this as a move to irritate him. John Haideman ralliedhis colleagues against me. Wade Stewart, project manager along with DarylBrown the LAN administrator and Nathan Camp were instrumental in thecampaign. Brian Callahan a project manager asked me t to sketch design ofTHE PENTAGON HVAC system from blueprint since he was working on


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a project to modernize the system there. Ive told him that I was notauthorized by my manager and that it needed some kind of approval. Thesecond pretext was to send me to Indianapolis to work on a pharmaceutical

project as technical writer. I was trained to do DeltaV implementation anddid not quite understand the point since there was no bargain onaccommodation and other details. On Wednesday 3rd March 2004, my

project manager Bob Bowers and Indagro president Jack Luxardo broke the

bad news that there was no project to work on and they had to let me go.Two Emerson employees were transferred from Mumbai India to replace mein January.

Jack Luxardo had asked me to help him with a pilot test unit to treatindustrial affluent from Siemens plant in Decatur GA. I helped with settingup the skid frame for the filters. The Siemens plant manufactures boxes for

electric switches. The affluent comes from painting and plating processes.The waste was treated in confined area with little ventilations and there weresubstances like cyanide and other poisonous fumes. I had to tell Jack that Icould not continue.

Igor Berkovich and Jack Luxardo helped me in a big way to get the training

and related me to sacrifice filter to annoy John Haideman and Wade Stewart.After two months there was no room for me at Emerson thanks to office

politics. I wanted to develop professionally with EMERSON and still callIgor once in a while.

The second job was with a land development company Paramont Grading, Iworked there as rod man/land survey technician helper for about 10 days. Ihad to leave because I had to go far into the country with only one personwho I didnt trust that much. I felt alarmed after hearing stories aboutForsyth County GA were the company was based.

THIRD JOB:

In early April I applied for a job at a temp agency Hire Dynamics inSuwanee GA. HD offered me a temp warehouse position at Echosphere -Dishnetwork. I worked in the warehouse for one day after which thesupervisor told me that I needed to call before coming the next time.

I directly applied for a field service specialist FSS/ Installer position atDishnetwork. Few days later I got a call from Thomas and he arranged for


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interview. I was interviewed by a guy named Victor who works at DNSCwarehouse. I submitted recent motor vehicle report, resume and drug test

before starting work on 5th

May 2004.

The first day with Dishnetwork was orientation and introduction to companypolicy. Second day I went to DNSC Kennesaw office. I attended one day ofin-house training after that I had to ride with technicians that were there

before me.

Shortly after that I was the odd man out. Ive been verbally harassed manytimes and every attempt was made to get me out. A small group of seniortechs, Sean- Gibbs- Rock Sam- Brian B Worthy- Lenox- Arnold- Brentstarted this campaign and they went to Chris Rhone GM to fire me. I resistedthe harassments and reminded them that it was against the law to

discriminate me based on my nationality and/or religion. I was confrontedwith difficult choices but I had to pay my bills, so I had to hang in there till Igot another job.

Eddie Ramirez, the regional manager was in their way for a while. However,he changed his mind after I had accident falling through the ceiling of a

customers house on 27th

June 2004. One of the techs said the insurance iscancelled. Things got worse after that day, and harassment increaseddramatically. I got frustrated and wrote to the HR manager Nneki Makenzie.She was out of town. On Sundays only the installers worked, the managerson duty took advantage of that and searched my car without my permission.

THE TERRIBLE INCIDENT:

I assume they made false allegations against me and reported it to theauthorities. On the fifteenth July, there was this guy, George Smith, whoclaimed to have come from Dishnetwork corporate office to inspect theinstallation of dual tuner 322 model receivers. George trailed theDishnetwork van and came with us to every customer we visited. I had a

suspicion that he was from investigative agency as he had Clayton CountyGA tag. I was not bothered by his presence; in fact I was relieved thinking atlast someone was going to unravel the whole secrecy about Dishnetwork.

About the same I received an email from Sarah Butler, the employmentmanager at LIRS inquiring how and where I got jobs. I answered her emailtelling her the job websites. Shortly after that I received email from Aerotek.


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Kari Backen, employment agent, she arranged for an interview withCornerstone Controls, an Emerson Process Management representative inCincinnati Ohio. I also visited Columbus Ohio before and after theinterview. My perception is that I was trailed all the time in Ohio. When inColumbus, I called my friend Obo whos a postgraduate student at RussianState University of Oil and Gas, Moscow. We talked about the interview and

plans to attend the Society of Petroleum Engineers conference which was to

take place in September in Houston. Our telephone conversation was tapped.

Back in Atlanta, I was trailed all the time. I reported it to LIRS, and theSomali Community. The first week of August, it went from trailing toexplicit action to coerce and inducement of Somali and others to tell aboutmy whereabouts. I did everything possible to avoid arbitrary detention basedon false allegations.

On Tuesday 3rd

of August, there was sting operation to arrest meI couldnot believe that so many cars and people were out to get me. It wasincredible that such a thing would happen in United States- the champion ofhuman rights and liberty. I called Human Rights Watch, AmnestyInternational, Lawyers for Human Rights and the office of a congress

woman telling them Im only a Somali refugee and that the exercise wasfor political purposes and an attempt to get publicity in view of the fact thatit happened just days after the Democratic National Convention. I requestedthem to pass the message to the average American and the truth be known.The mission to arrest me failed but surveillance continued

The false allegations against me though, not official, were rather veryserious - a threat to the national security of the United States of America. Ifound these false allegations as unjustified, despicable and the worst kind ofdiscrimination based on my nationality and religion simply because I happento be a Muslim. And above all it was politically motivated for publicity inelection year.

WASHINGTON DC:

When it became too much to bear by myself I had to come to WashingtonDC area to get legal assistance from human rights defenders.

The incident in Atlanta made me want to seek out clarity and legal help. InDC area, there were three of my cousins; Abdisamad 40, Abdiasis 43 and


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Abshir 68. Theyve been in the US for more than 15 to 21 years. I thoughttheyd be in a position to help. After telling them what happened and thereason for coming, they seemed to be at lost and terrified.

There was also Ahmed Mohamed Farah Shombe, who worked forinvestigative agency as interpreter, a friend of Abdiasis. Shombe was thereto sabotage any efforts to resolve the problem. They insisted on me seeing a

doctor, I on the other hand wanted to see a human rights lawyer and getmeans of transportation. Shombe and Abdiasis staged a stunt; they talked toAllan Ebert, a lawyer, to give lip service and try to persuade me. Allan Ebertsaid he would try to find out facts through his liaisons and friends in thecongress using backdoors. I was mindful of their scheme to discredit mystory since it was embarrassing in election year as Mr. Ebert put it. Ioverheard them whisper they will kill him. I immediately called my sister

Safi in San Diego and briefed her about the situation.

Abdisamad and Abshir called the Police on me one night and under TDO Iwas taken to Mt. Vernon Mental Hospital. It was uncalled for, and probablydone to get reward. At night strange smelling gas was in the room. I couldnot sleep and had to stay awake all night. The next day, there were people in

the unit saying theyre going to kill him. I called Amnesty Internationaland gave them my name and what was going on. Few hours later, Amnestystaff called back to check if I was alive. I also called Abdillahi M. Mirre,second cousin and former Somali Education Minister.

In the afternoon I was relocated to Northern Virginia Health Institute. Iwent to a unit where undercover agents disguised as mental patients shoutedthreats like this is war..this is war. It was coincidental, as Bill Clinton wasundergoing operation on his heart, someone freaked out and shouted, damnyou Clinton..damn you Clinton. After staying there for five days, I wasdischarged. While leaving in the hall way, there were about 30 people withone person sitting on a chair and head covered with a black garbage bag. I

believe this effort was an act of intimidation to silence me.

THREAT OF RETALIATION:

Im a refugee and believe should not be exploited for political purposes. Iwas prescreened before entering the U.S. I had to yell and scream to the

public that I pose no security risk. For that Im now facing the threat ofdeportation to Somalia, where civil-war has made conditions so dangerous


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that the US and the international community will not send their ownemployees there.

The incident was the subject of ridicule on late night and standup comedyshows in the months leading up to the election. In the media it was discussedin a subtle way.

Despite the risks I face, Im willing to stand up for my human rights andseek relief. Im frightened by the attempts to pass anti-refugee laws thatwould target selected people based on religious and ethnic backgrounds. Imconcerned for the protection and relief provided by U.S. and internationallaw.

WHY I MUST SPEAK THE TRUTH?

WINTER / 2005

In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act- George Orwell

Introduction:

It is imperative to speak the truth as a natural reaction to the forces that wantto silence it. Truth is a very powerful and meaningful word. When an issue

becomes controversial, it means that somewhere the truth is being resisted;

the more controversial things get, the more the resistance is mobilized todeny or block the truth.

The United States was formed by refugees who fled religious persecution.The America has housed so many refugees and been so generous in the past.

Being a refugee is having all control taken away from you, with little or nooptions.

When clan violence in 1992 threatened international relief efforts in

Somalia, U.S. President George Bush sent in American troops to providerelief for thousands of Somalis who were caught in the deadly civil-war. Forthat most Somalis including myself are grateful. We were disheartened whenthe military withdrew before establishing central government.


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Friends tell me that theres more hostile attitude among many people in theU.S. toward refugees lately. Unwarranted suspicion is cast over large pool of

people including refugees.

In the beginning of 2004, a senior U.S. official whod recently left officegave an interview on TV. He quoted another senior official saying, Theyrereproducing faster than were killing them. Then he went on to ask, is this

genocide? I believe the official was Richard Clarke. Do you kill peopleafter getting to know them... the script in a scene from the movie Collateral.

In order to build a better world, America should defend and integrate young progressive refugees and not alienate them. Refugees should not bepersecuted, preyed upon and/or criminalized without breaking the law.

Background Information:

My name is Anwar Abdi, was born in Somalia in the 70s. In the mid 80sthere was fighting and curfews were placed in the parts of the country andthere was sense that civil-war was looming near. I was a child when parentsconcerned for security arranged for me to live in Abu-Dhabi UAE with

relatives. Full-blown civil-war broke out in Somalia in 1991, my familymembers were displaced as refugees and many relatives killed.

In 1992, after completing high school, it was difficult for relatives to supportme. I was worried that if I stayed in UAE, Id have problems as the countrywas not accepting refugees. In that same year, I came to Kiev Ukraine withthe prospects of going to Western Europe. However I was afraid to travelwith smugglers as it was dangerous adventure and there was war in Somalia.

I approached and registered with UNHCR office in Moscow in Dec., 1993.While in Moscow I studied at Moscow Power Engineering Institute,Academy of Oil and Gas before graduating from Ufa State PetroleumTechnological University in Ufa, Russia in 2001. I changed schools because

of insufficient funds.

I did not want to return to Somalia because I feared reprisals. With so manykillings and the tradition of collective punishment and revenge, I would beeasy target in a country in civil-war where I had not lived since mychildhood.


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In Russia xenophobia and racism were rampant. The problems of Russia intransition from Soviet-era were many: the mafia, violent neo-Nazi groups andcorrupt police who would all target foreigners, especially Africans, Asians andLatin Americans.

Russia, coping with its colossal domestic crisis, could not officially accept orintegrate refugees from outside the CIS, even though its signatory to the

Geneva conventions. And its for this reasons the United Nations had toresettle African refugees in a third country so they would not be targeted onMoscow streets. More than 100 Somalis died during my stay. The last onewas a friend, he was attacked on the way to his home; I buried him inDecember 2002 outside Moscow.

In July 2001, my case was passed to the Resettlement Unit in Moscow. The

Resettlement Unit would process cases and pass on to the embassies of U.S.,Canada and Norway or UNHCR HQ in Geneva, Switzerland. I wassponsored by the U.S. State Dept. refugee resettlement program. I cameunder intense scrutiny and background check before entering the UnitedStates in 2003.

In Oct. 2003, I applied for my first job at Emerson Process Management. Iwrote an email to my reference person at the UN office in Moscow, in whichI said that almost everyone was for me except one person, the VP of thecompany. I had to go there on Fridays to persuade him and to check thestatus of the application. In January I got the offer, two months later I waslaid off. Was it deliberate attempt to fail me?

In May 2004, I got email from ex-colleague, in it he mentioned about megoing to Angola for a week, sometime in August. I had no plans to go toAfrica. I kept thinking about it, perhaps he meant the notorious Angola inLouisiana. I assumed he was warning me of something.

Then one weekend, I went to have lunch at the Golden Corral restaurantwith friends, and there was this couple next to us. The man asked thewoman, Where does he work now? And she replied, he works for a cablecompany as installer. How did these folks know me? At the time, I wasstruggling with a small job as satellite dish installer. I mistakenly gave myresume with the application. The installers ganged up on me.


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The local manager was in cahoots with the other installers. I guess they hadsome deal to filch stuff. In June, the harassment was too much; I emailedEddie, the regional manager for the southeast.

On 27th

June 2004, I had accident falling through the ceiling of a customershouse. One of the installers said the insurance is cancelled. Things gotworse after that day, and harassment increased dramatically. I got frustrated

and wrote to the HR manager Nneki Makenzie. She was out of town. OnSundays only the installers worked, the managers on duty took advantage ofthat and searched my car without permission.

They, Eddie and Chris Rohne, made malicious false report to the authoritiesin order to destroy me. The installers would say, trust but verify, Ianswered back that there was nothing to verify, that I did not fall from the

sky. So there was serious slander campaign going on.

On 15th

July, George Smith, who claimed to have come from Dishnetworkcorporate office, said hed ride with us. George trailed the company van andcame with us to every customer we visited. I had a suspicion that he wasfrom investigative agency as he had Clayton County GA tag. I was not

bothered by his presence though; in fact I was relieved thinking at lastsomeone was going to unravel the whole secrecy about Dishnetwork.

About the same I received an email from Sarah Butler, the employmentmanager at Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, the resettlementagency, inquiring how and where I got jobs. I answered her email telling herthe job websites.

Shortly after that I received email from Aerotek, employment agency. KariBacken, employment agent, arranged for an interview with CornerstoneControls, an Emerson Process Management representative in CincinnatiOhio. They wanted me to work on a pharmaceutical project for Ely Lilly.

Before the interview, I visited children of extended relatives at the hospital,they had car accident in Columbus, Ohio. Two guys were waiting near theelevator, one of them said, its going to be hard to arrest him. My view isthat I was trailed all the time in Ohio.

When in Columbus, I called my friend Obo Okeffe, a Nigerian, whos a postgraduate student at Russian State University of Oil and Gas, Moscow.


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We talked about the interview and his plans to attend the Society ofPetroleum Engineers conference which was to take place in September inHouston, Texas. Our telephone conversation was tapped. How did I know?

Nokia phone has features that show when its is tapped. So we cracked somejokes, like where am I? Is this Congo, Somalia or the United States?

Why would the United States bring a refugee all the way from Russia and

basically destroy him? There was no immediate logical answer, except it hadto be the elections.

I remembered the email about the notorious Angola. Igor Berkovich ofEmerson, Eddie and Chris Rohne of Dishnetwork, Ian of CornerstoneControls would apprise one another of my movement and situation.

The trip was a sucker-trap. No wonder I was denied reimbursement for thetravel expenses, I got very upset. I was setup and almost got pushed over thecliff.

To lose the tail, I woke up early, put on music from Top Gun, set up theGPS system on the laptop and drove down I-75 at speed limit. There was fogin the mountains between Kentucky and Tennessee but drove at speed limitanyway stopping only once to refuel.

Back in Atlanta, I was trailed all the time. I reported it to LIRS and membersof the Somali community. I watched TV as the Heritage Foundation

presented some anti-foreign student lectures. David Kay gave passionatespeech about Somalis and people from that region of the world, and why its

necessary to deny employment of such people at pharmaceutical andchemical plants.

Authorities would not contact or interview me for honest dialogue; insteadthey contacted members of the Somali community in Atlanta. The localinvestigators intentionally overlooked or didnt put into equation the petty

tribal politics of the Somalis. Tragically Somalis are handicapped byignorance and hatred to see anyone, outside of the tribe, as would-be foe.The local mosques were also contacted. Tribal conservatism and extremismwere mutually reinforcing to my disadvantage.

Ive rented the basement room of a home owned by a Somali family. While Iwas away for the interview in Cincinnati, my room was searched for


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incriminating items and possibly bugs were planted. Theyd even knowwhen I sneeze. I only read this kind of thing in novels.

The first week of August, it went from trailing to explicit action to coerceand induce Somalis and others to tell about my whereabouts. I dideverything possible to avoid arbitrary detention based on slander and Godknows what.

On 3rd

August, there was sting operation under way. I could not believe thatso many cars and people were out to get me. It was incredible that such athing would happen in the United States- the champion of human rights andliberty.

Alertness and survivor instinct that saved me in Russia came in handy. I had toyell and scream to the public that I pose no risk whatsoever, not even to ants.I called Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the UN, Lawyers

Committee for Human Rights and the office of a congress woman tellingthem, Im only a refugee, and what theses folks are doing is inhumane!

The exercise was for political purpose and an attempt to get publicity inview of the fact that it happened just days after the Democratic NationalConvention. I requested them to pass the message to the averageAmerican and the truth be known.

I knew that 9/11 attacks generated some backlash and Islamphobia in theUnited States. That said I never thought I would be targeted for religionand/or for having a technological degree: control systems. In some Faustian

bargain, perhaps someone calculated that refugees are defenseless- easysacrifice

Only ethnical background and resume was enough to get me in trouble bigtime. The other refugees who came with me are spared the trouble, because

they lacked English with agricultural or medical degrees.

When it became too much to bear by myself I had to come to WashingtonDC area to get legal assistance from human rights defenders. The incidentmade me want to seek out clarity.


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In DC area, I had three cousins; Abdisamad 40, Abdiasis 43 and Abshir 68.Theyve been in the U.S. for a while. I thought theyd be in a position tohelp or at least give a ride. After telling them what happened and the reasonfor coming, they seemed to be at lost and terrified.

Ive requested the cousins to give me a ride to down town Washington to seehuman rights defenders. They refused. I bought a printer and fax machine to

telecommunicate with human right groups. As a refugee, I was NOTinterested in the elections and its outcome, rather I was preoccupied withsurvival and how to stay away from persecution based on bogus accusations.

Controlling the fall-out:

On 10th

August, Abshir and Abdisamad insisted that I see a doctor to help

me cope with depression. We went to Ziad Khalil, MD a familypractitioner. After talking with me, he said I was ok that cousins were justconcerned. He suggested me to leave the South and go to Michigan. ZiadKhalil also referred us to Woodburn Center for Community Health.

Ahmed Yassin, Shombe, who I think works for the FBI as interpreter, and a

friend of Abdiasis, frequently visited the home. He said to Abdiaziz, theywill kill him, dont kill yourselves. I wanted to believe that this wasnthappening.

On 23rd August, Abdiaziz, Abdisamad and I visited Dr. Cornet at WoodburnCenter for Community Health. Dr. Cornet, a Haitian, said he understood the

problems facing Somalis. He asked me to think about taking medicine tocalm me down. Ive told him that more than anything I needed human rightsadvocate.

When we came out from the center, the cousins went ballistic. We arguedfor a while, I told them that I knew the consequences of been forced intodrugs. That something fishy was going on and they were not forthcoming.

Ive warned them someone was trying hard to drive wedge between us. Theygave reassurances that Ill be left alone if I took the pills. I knew right thenthat my cousins were only functionally literate, not enlightened, or they werehypocrites beyond imagination.

On 24th

August, I visited Dr. Pastor at Woodburn Center for Communityhealth. He prescribed Abilify. Two cops came in the center; they took a look


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and went back. As I was coming out from the center there were six policecars waiting. The cops looked at me as to intimidate me.

I did little research and bought the medicine the next day. Abilfy is forschizophrenia patients. Im not schizophrenic but took the 5mg pill anywayin the hope that Id be left alone. I threw up and could not sleep at night. Inthe morning, I caught Abdisamad talking to his over-the-phone

supervisor/handler that the fallout is under control. He went on to say,hes going to tax the system, throw him out. I confronted him but hedavoid me.

On 25th

August, Ahmed Yassin Shombe and Abdiasis staged a stunt; theytalked to Allan Ebert, a lawyer, to give lip service and try to calm me. AllanEbert said the story was embarrassing in election year; he would try to find

out facts through his liaisons and friends using backdoors. Allan also said,We need to save faces here.

As I was in the basement watching TV, the three cousins would meetupstairs and discuss the situation. I sneaked up. They said, We dont carewhere they take him, even if they kill him. They said, If he was Ali (their

brother in Ohio), we could have defended him. They went on and ontalking about how the Russians are involved in the case and the elections.

Downstairs, I did some soul-searching looking back at my past in Russia. In2002, there was a group of retired Russian military officers, some Indiansand two Somalis at the embassy who set up a Fund, a charity to export armsto Somalia. I reminded them that it was in violation of a 1992 UN resolution,arms embargo on Somalia. I maybe wrong but one of the Indians involved isin U.S. custody since August 2003. One of the Somalis was on FSB payroll,as were some of the others. They might want to settle score for spoiling their

party. There was another Russian in Ufa, a FSB agent, who did not like myclose friendship with fellow students, American teachers and Mormons. Hefroze my tuition fees from extended relatives in the bank for a month and

almost got kicked-out from school for the delay. Other than that I had noproblem with the Russian secret service.

Intimidation at Mt. Vernon/ North Virginia Health Institute:

On 30th

August, Abdisamad and Abshir called the Police on me. It wasuncalled-for, probably done to get reward as Id later find out. While doing


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the paperwork, the police officers joked, the chicken has been runningwithout headlights. Under TDO I was taken to Mt. Vernon MentalHospital.

I slept the night. In the morning, as I woke up guys were working on theventilation in the hall way in front of my room. Then theyd come inside theroom to work on the sockets and ventilation. During the day, I called

relatives.

At midnight strange smelling gas was in the room. It was suffocating; I pulled the bed near the door and stayed awake all night. I approached thenurse telling her about the chlorine smelling gas.

The next day, my blood pressure was abnormally high. One of the nurses

said, We dont have to give him anything, he smoked enough. (Gasp!)After food break, I saw two men wearing slick suits go into the room. I wentin and asked them what they were doing, just inspecting repair work theyreplied. I went to the head nurse and demanded the names of the men in casesomething happened to me. She refused, and the men slipped away.

There were people in the unit saying theyre going to kill him. And oneperson said the reason is because he wrote something about population.

I called Amnesty International and gave my name and told them what wasgoing on. Few hours later, Amnesty staff called back to check if I was stillalive. I also called Abdullahi M. Mirre, the former Somali EducationMinister.

In the afternoon I was transferred to Northern Virginia Health Institute. Iwent to a unit where undercover agents disguised as mental patients shoutedthreats like This is war. This is war.

It might been coincidental, as Bill Clinton was undergoing operation on his

heart, someone freaked out and shouted, damn you Clinton..Damn youClinton.

After staying there for five days, I was discharged. While leaving in the hallway, there were about 30 people with one person sitting on a chair and headcovered with a black garbage bag. This effort was an act of intimidation.


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Dr. Coburn diagnosed me to have something called severe culturaldistortion. Yeah right! He prescribed Zyprexa to slow my thought

processes, to relax. I was in hibernation for days! Then I stopped taking it. Iwas not sick or anything, why take tranquilizer that would make me

brainless when I needed to be observant to stay alive.

At home Id keep myself busy cooking spaghetti and watching the Athens

Olympics.

Onslaught in the Media:

In August and months leading up to Nov. 2, people would come onTV/Radio and basically destroy me with their comments. In DC the host on

an NPR program took a non-scientific poll of the listeners in which 59% saidhe should be killed while 30 % said he should be protected. The listenerscondone extrajudicial murder (gasp!). In subtle ways theyd systematicallyattack me by slander and name-calling such as these: Commie, Fascist, Anti-Semitic, Pig, Queer, Terrorist, Cockroach, and Frankenstein etcetera.

I am NOT a communist, nor have I ever been one. Its way-wrong to smearme as commie when the Russians are no longer commies themselves. Iwas victimized and harassed by neo-Nazi skinheads on Moscow streets;does that make me a fascist? I dont think so.

I am not anti-Semitic either, Ive lived with Arabs and my teachers wereJews.

In my understanding terrorism is a new phenomenon, associated with Arab-Afghans such as the 9/11 terrorists and others namely Islamic radicalextremists, ETA, warlords etcetera. These days, the easiest way to obliteratea progressive knowledgeable Muslim is to brand him/her a terrorist, theargument stops right there because of bandwagon.

Terrorists distorted and hijacked my religion. Branding innocent refugee aterrorist is a wrongdoing of the highest order. I find this cynical branding asunjustifiable, despicable and the worst kind of discrimination based onethnicity and religion.

Whipping the boy for yelling:


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As a result of the smear campaign, Im now facing the threat of being

fished-out-in-broad-daylight and of expulsion to Somalia where civil-warhas made conditions so dangerous that the United States and theinternational community will not send their own employees there.

I pose no threat to United States security interests. Facts are obscured and

reduced to side issue in the name of security. In reality the U.S. shoulddevelop and educate new leadership for Africa in order to counter realterrorism and extremist organizations. It would be a tragedy if the UnitedStates kills or alienates by discrimination its future trade partners.

Im alarmed by the attempts to pass anti-refugee laws that would targetspecial group of people based on religious and ethnic backgrounds. Im

concerned for the little protection and relief provided by U.S. andinternational laws to refugees.

The surveillance and witch-hunt continue to this very day. In the TwinCities, I went to Super America convenient store to buy something and therewere two police men talking, theres a new Somali guy in town, teasing

police. Just before Christmas at the mall, a Somali said to me, watch outfor yourself, brother and walked away.

This witch-hunt without probable cause and persecution ought to stop astheres nothing to investigate.

I have hope and believe in Americas traditional hospitality to the refugees ofthe world, as BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA said, Hope in the face ofdifficulty, hope in the face of uncertainty, the audacity of hope: the hope of askinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has place for him,too.

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