US pays 9/11 lawsuit
U.S. agrees to settle 9/11 detainee lawsuit
By Nina Bernstein The New York Times
NEW YORK The U.S. government has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by an Egyptian who was among dozens of Muslim men swept up in the New York area after Sept. 11, held for months in a detention center in Brooklyn, and deported after being cleared of links to terrorism.
The settlement, filed in federal court late Monday, is the first the government has made in a number of lawsuits charging that noncitizens were abused and their constitutional rights violated in detentions after the terror attacks.
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