Times Union columnist Fred LeBrun, who followed Aref’s trial closely, wrote, “Someday we’ll look back on the present national paranoia over terrorism and the excesses done in its name with the same national embarrassment that Americans feel for Senator Joe McCarthy’s communist witch hunts of the 1950s and our appalling treatment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.”

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