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FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2012, file photo, Ismael el-Shikh stands in a prayer room at the Islamic Culture Center in Newark, N.J. Americans in New Jersey’s largest city were subjected to surveillance as part of the New York Police Department’s effort to build databases of where Muslims work, shop and pray. The special unit that conducted the program has been disbanded, the NYPD confirmed on Tuesday, April 15, 2014. The surveillance program by the NYPD Intelligence Division had come under fire by community activists who accused the department of abusing civil rights. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2012, file photo, Ismael el-Shikh stands in a prayer room at the Islamic Culture Center in Newark, N.J. Americans in New Jersey’s largest city were subjected to surveillance as part of the New York Police Department’s effort to build databases of where Muslims work, shop and pray. The special unit that conducted the program has been disbanded, the NYPD confirmed on Tuesday, April 15, 2014. The surveillance program by the NYPD Intelligence Division had come under fire by community activists who accused the department of abusing civil rights. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

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