Subject:  DUKE PROFESSOR REBUFFED PAKISTANIS (AP)
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 14:35:58 -0500


For those who were still wondering if it was a hoax. FYI, those who wrote
complaints to Reedy--including the original 3 students-- rec'd an apology.
Liz

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From: Dereka Rushbrook [mailto:dereka-AT-U.Arizona.EDU]
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Subject: [P_F_P] DUKE PROFESSOR REBUFFED PAKISTANIS (AP)



DUKE PROFESSOR REBUFFED PAKISTANIS
For full text:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20011221/us/attacks_duke_1.html

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - A Duke University professor rebuffed three Pakistani
students who inquired via e-mail about medical lab jobs, replying: “It is
not worth our trouble to try to determine if you are a well-disguised
terrorist.”

Michael Reedy, a cell-biology professor who has worked at Duke for 32
years, said Thursday that he regretted his reply. He said he has since
volunteered to help find the Pakistani students positions at Duke. “I was
distressed beyond words by the futility of the deaths of suicide bombers,”
he said. “My imagination was headed in a paranoid direction rather than a
healing direction.”

Reedy sent the e-mail reply Dec. 6, shortly after the country was placed on
heightened alert for further terrorist activity following the Sept. 11
attacks. In the e-mail, he told the students from Aga Khan University
Medical College in Karachi, Pakistan: “Your ethnicity and your age ... are
so similar to those of jihad-minded terrorists from the schools that
nurtured the Taliban and Al-Quaeda that it is not worth our trouble to try
to determine if you are a well-disguised terrorist or a real
learning-motivated medical student.”

Reedy and R. Sanders Williams, the medical school dean, apologized to the
students…

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