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The Shame of American Racism

the Iraq Solidarity Campaign | 26.08.2005 13:54 | Anti-racism

This was publsihed on the front page of the 26/ Jordan Times 26/8/2005

Sami Habbas
Sami Habbas


Sami Habbas holds up a letter he recently received in the mail from JPMorgan Chase & Co.

in Corona, California, offering him a credit card. The stunned Palestinian-American opened the letter to find a salutation that said: `Dear Palestinian Bomber'.

Habbas, 54, a naturalised American citizen, was born in the West Bank, but moved to the US when he was 3 years old.

Chase Card Services, the Delaware-based credit card line of JPMorgan Chase & Co., was investigating the solicitation


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One cockroach?

26.08.2005 23:21

If this came from Chase (somebody at Chase mailing to Arab sounding names) we wouldn't expect just one person to have receved one and that person having been Palestinian by birth (ex Palestianians make up a relatively small fraction of people here in the US with Arab seemign names).

So something smells. My guess is that it didn't originate from Chase. Say somebody receives one of these solicitations, scans it in, then edits it and prints it out, sends it to Mr. Habbas (most likely somebody who KNOWS him). Maybe the envelope was saved? Maybe there is data left intact on the letter, some numbers, etc. that Chase might be able to use to determine who was the original intended recipient

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