http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-na/2006/aug/17/081705335.htmlThe date was Sept. 12, 2001, but Benemar "Ben" Benatta was clueless about the death and destruction that had unfolded a day earlier.
About a week before, Canadian officials had stopped Benatta as he entered the country from Buffalo to seek political asylum. On that Sept. 11, he was quietly transferred to a U.S. immigration lockup where a day passed before sullen FBI agents told him what the rest of the world already knew: Terrorists had attacked the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
It slowly dawned on Benatta that his pedigree - a Muslim man with a military background - made him a target in the frenzied national dragnet that soon followed. The FBI didn't accuse him of being a terrorist - at least not outright.
But agents kept asking if he could fly an airplane.
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