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Monday, August 01, 2005

Another Wisconsin Appearance on the Grapevine.

This time Brit Hume mentions the little storm about the Fond du Lac Reporter's report.

Apparently a man of Pakistani origin was arrested in Fond du Lac for some sort of marriage scam. The Fond du Lac Reporter than reported a DHS official called the man a 9/11 plotter.

Comments made by a federal immigrations enforcement agent at a Fond du Lac City Council meeting Wednesday night gave the impression that anti-American activity was going on in Fond du Lac, according to some people in attendance at the meeting.

Some comments by Special Agent Jeff Stillings were misunderstood by local media present at the meeting, according to a statement released Thursday by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The Reporter and radio stations KFIZ and WFDL all reported Stillings' comments in the same way.

However, Stillings, who has an accent common to the northeastern United States, told audience members that Faryad Hussain, the instigator of a 2002 marriage fraud operation in Fond du Lac, was "an applauder" of 9/11, not "a plotter," according to the ICE statement.


See for the complete story as reported by the Fond du Lac Reporter.