NYPD built secret files on NJ, Long Island mosques
Photo credit: AP | Mohammed and Nagiba el-Sioufi are seen in their office as they are interviewed by the Associated Press about the New York Police Department's surveillance of the Muslim community in Newark, N.J. (Feb. 15, 2012)
Bloomberg Defends NYPD Monitoring Muslim Groups
NYPD Monitored Muslim Coeds All Over Northeast
Americans living and working in New Jersey's largest city were subjected to surveillance as part of the New York Police Department's effort to build databases of where Muslims work, shop and pray. The operation in Newark was so secretive even the city's mayor says he was kept in the dark.
For months in mid-2007, plainclothes officers from the NYPD's Demographics Units fanned out across Newark,...
