They were soccer players as well [:O] Arab, soccer-playing Democrats. You can't get more un-American than that.
Terror Arrests Baffle Steel Town
U.S.-Born Yemenis Gave Few Hints of Radicalism Before Trip to Pakistan
By Michael Powell
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 17, 2002; Page A14
LACKAWANNA, N.Y., Sept. 16 -- It's the riddle for which few in this old company steel town have an answer: How did the six thoroughly American Arab boys wind up indicted as al Qaeda soldiers?
Yasein Taher was a [b]star soccer player[/b] at Lackawanna High School, and Sahim Alwan was a chatty fellow who talked of Allah but also made the girls laugh. Shafal Mosed watched over his younger brothers with a paternal eye. They had many friends, black and white friends, and Alwan and Yahya Goba counseled young children over meals of barbecued chicken wings.
[url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A26575-2002Sep16?language=printer[/url]
Gee what swell guys. They had busy social lives and still made time to visit Osama Bin Laden's terror camps in Pakistan.