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 \nfrom speakers.The crowd booed,jeered,andhissed,and some even cried out,\"Shame!Shame!Shame on Ashcroft!\"  \nProtester Vernon Supreme got dressed upfor the occasion.He wore a rainbow-coloredwig,red nose,and rubber butt and paradedaround telling Ashcroft jokes.But he wasn'tclowning around when he told reporters hethought Ashcroft was a \"fascist,\"or dictator.  \nProtester Andrea Dourenus was moreserious.She thinks the goverment is usingthe Patriot Act to limit Americans'constitu-tional rights.\"Tt's an insidious distortion andmanipulation of the war on terrorism toattack basic civil rights,\"she said.  \n口U.S.Attorney General John Ashcroft defends  \nthe U.S.Patriot Act in a speech last August.Congress passed the law afterthe 9/11 terrorist attacks that brought down the World Trade Center (right).  \non the government's ability to obtain searchwarrants,which are court orders that allowlaw enforcement officers to search a sus-pect's property;  \nWhat's It All About?Some local lawmakers were out-Whoa!What's all the fuss about?Congressside protesting rather than inside listen-passed the Patriot Act on October 26,2001,ino.Boston City Council member Chuckabout a month and a half after the deadly1.ner plans to introduce a measure in9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City,opposition to the Patriot Act at a city coun-Washington,D.C.,and Pennsylvania.Withcil meeting.If passed,the resolution wouldGround Zero still smoldering,the law passedbe among more than 60 anti-Patriotquickly and easily and gave the govemmentAct resolutions passed by local govern-sweeping new powers to fight terrorism.ments.Three states—Hawaii,Vermont,andThe law is more than 300 pages long,Alaska—have also passed resolutions Here are some of the more controversialdenouncing the federal law.  \n■ allows the government,in somecases,to notify subjects of a search afterthe search has taken place,insteadof before;  \nprovisions:The law  \n■ eases restrictions  \n■ Youcan  \ndeclaring a jihad  \nQUEST  \nrun,but you  \n(religious war)  \ncan't hide.The  \nagainst America  \nPatriot Act is  \nand its allies.  \ndesigned to  \neliminate the ability ofterrorists to hide from thelaw.That may work inside the UnitedStates,but it hasn't worked overseas.Despite years of intense searching,U.S.forces have yet to find America'snumber-one terrorist enemy,Osama binLaden.AI Qaeda,the terrorist networkcontrolled by bin Laden,is said to bealive and wll,with units in 60 countries.  \n■On the morning of  \nSeptember 11,2001,  \nal Qaeda terrorists hijacked four U.S.airliners.They crashed two of the planesinto New York City's World Trade Centertowers and one into the Pentagon,nearWashington,D.C.A fourth hijacked planecrashed in a Pennsylvania field afterpassengers stormed the cockpitand fought the hijackersMore than  \n3,000 people died in the attacks.  \n■AI Qaeda,which means the base”in Arabic,originatedin the 1980s duringthe Muslim uprising against the Sovietoccupation of Afghanistan.Thousandsof devout Muslims from throughout theworld—including Osama bin Laden,the son of a Saudi billionaire—cameto Afghanistan to fight alongside AfghanMuslims against the \"godless\"SovietUnion.After the defeated Soviet armywithdrew from Afghanistan in 1989,binLaden turned his attention to fightingthe United States.In 1998,he issueda fatwa,or Islamic religious decree,  \n■ On October 7,2001,the UnitedStates and Great Britain began airattacks against the Taliban governmentin Afghanistan,which was protecting binLaden and al Qaeda.By earlyDecember,the Taliban had beendefeated and bin Laden,along withhis top al Qaeda operatives,had fledinto hiding.Today,from his hideout,the al Qaeda leader periodicallyreleases video-and audiotapespromising further terrorist attacks onthe United States.  \nmallows the government to detain non-U.Scitizens suspected of terrorism for up toseven days without specific charges andallows those charged to be held 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