FBI ‘apologises’ to Pak immigrant raided in bomb plot probe

The man from Long Island,located in southeastern New York,claims to have received an apology from the FBI after he threatened to sue the agency for racial profiling since it raided his house in connection with the case of terror suspect Faisal Shahzad,the NY Daily News reported.

“I don’t want my kids to be told their father’s a terrorist,” he was quoted as saying in the report.

Shahzad,who is also originally from Pakistan,attempted to blow up a section of Times Square on April 30 and the investigation is still ongoing to catch anyone who may have been involved in the case.

Iqbal accused the FBI of harassing him in front of his children. “They could have done it in a different way. My kids couldn’t sleep all night. My whole family’s so scared,” he said.

Iqbal,said that his nine-year-old son was afraid to leave the house for school. “People are going to ask me if my father’s a terrorist,” he told his father.

The FBI,however,had disputed Iqbal’s claims.

“The FBI doesn’t engage in ethnic or racial profiling,” FBI spokesperson Jim Margolin said.

“Our position is that he and the other occupants were treated properly.”

Iqbal asserted,according to the Daily News,that the FBI kept his house under surveillance. Over the weekend,there were five agents allegedly going through his trash. “It’s harassment,” Iqbal said.

Three other Pakistani men were arrested in northeast US last month under suspicion of giving Shahzad money. But so far they have not been criminally charged in connection with the terror plot because it appears they did not know how the money was to be used.

Pir Khan,a 43-year-old taxi driver from Watertown,Boston,was arrested along with his cousin,Aftab Khan,27.

Both are now facing deportation for violating immigration laws. A third man,Mohammad Shafiq Rahman,a 33-year-old computer programmer from South Portland,Maine,was also arrested.