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October 07, 2011

AP: Ex-worker sues US intelligence agency, blames anti-Islamic bias for lost security clearance

by Matthew Barakat
The Associated Press

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) - A former employee has sued one of the government's most secretive security agencies, alleging he lost his security clearance because his wife attended an Islamic school and worked for a Muslim charity.

Mahmoud Hegab filed the discrimination lawsuit this week in U.S. District Court in Alexandria against the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency at Fort Belvoir.

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