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Nov 16, 2006 10:41 am US/Pacific

Islamic Leaders Want Answers In Stun Gun Incident

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Southern California Islamic leaders are calling for an independent investigation into Tuesday night's incident at the UCLA library where campus police apparently stunned a student with a "Taser" gun.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations urged "state and national authorities, including the FBI" to investigate the
incident involving the 23-year-old Mostafa Tabatabainejad.

A camera phone captured Tabatabainejad being stunned after he allegedly refused repeated requests to show his student I.D. and would not leave a campus library.

Campus officials were investigating the incident, but the American-Islamic relations group said an outside probe was
needed to make sure the case's "civil rights aspects" are taken seriously.

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