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Are we sure the 'police' are Americans at all? They didn't identify themselves. (My first thought was that it was Turkish agents)
by Kim_Bruning 2y ago
Are we sure the 'police' are Americans at all? They didn't identify themselves. (My first thought was that it was Turkish agents)
- esafak 2y agoThey're DHS agents, according to her lawyer.
- Kim_Bruning 2y ago"The lawyer, Mahsa Khanbabai, said Wednesday afternoon that she still does not know where her client is being held and has not been able to contact her." Hence my question. We'll see!
- esafak 2y agoI responded based on information in another article: https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-03-26/tufts-international-graduate-student-taken-into-ice-custody https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-03-26/tufts-internation...
- Kim_Bruning 2y agoAnd indeed looks like DHS confirms they have her. The reason I was a bit reserved was because that's not how I expect US officials to behave.
- bananapub 2y agohave you not seen the news the last couple of months? this is exactly how US officials are behaving.
- perihelions 2y agoThe Turkish government doesn't care about this kind of stuff. If Turkish agents black-bagged anyone in the US, it'd be either Gulen or a Kurdish separatist. (Michael Flynn discussed black-bagging Gulen as a favor to Erdogan during the first Trump administration, but that proposal went nowhere [0,1]). [0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41947451 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41947451 ("Ex-Trump aide Mike Flynn 'offered $15m by Turkey for Gulen'" (2017)) [1] https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/jury-convicts-flynn-intel-group-founder-conspiring-act-undisclosed-agent-turkey https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/jury-convicts-flynn-... ("Jury Convicts Flynn Intel Group Founder of Conspiring to Act as an Undisclosed Agent of Turkey" (2019))