Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 10:49:04 -0500
Subject: Re: DUKE PROFESSOR REBUFFED PAKISTANIS (AP)


It's not a hoax. Even our local paper here in Gainesville, FL ran the story
a couple of days ago.
Malini










At 02:35 PM 12/23/01 -0500, you wrote:
>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)
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>DUKE PROFESSOR REBUFFED PAKISTANIS
>For full text:
>http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20011221/us/attacks_duke_1.html
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>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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