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Article: The strange odyssey of Jean-Toney Oulai
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- The New York Beacon
- Article date:
- August 21, 2002
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Kauffman, Kelsey
New York Beacon, The
08-21-2002
On Sept. 14, 2001, Jean-Toney Oulai was removed from a Southwest Airlines
flight as it sat on the tarmac at the international airport in Jackson,
Florida. He was a Muslim from an Islamic country whose luggage contained a
stun gun, flight manuals, and anti-American writings in Arabic.
He was sent to a county jail in north Florida where he was interrogated,
then shipped to a federal prison in New York. Every few weeks after that,
he was moved from prison to prison around the country. Now back in
Jacksonville, he faces trial nest week on charges of lying about his
immigration status. Whether found innocent or guilty, he will be deported.
And the ...