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Bodies pile up as Haiti quake toll rises
January 16th, 20100 PORT-AU-PRINCE - Troops and planeloads of food and medicine trickled in to Haiti on Thursday to aid a traumatized nation still rattled by aftershocks from the catastrophic earthquake that flattened homes and government buildings and buried countless people. A Haitian reacts after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince January 13, 2010....Suicide rate among veterans surges
WASHINGTON (IPS) - Suicides among United States military veterans ballooned by 26 percent from 2005 to 2007, according to new statistics released by the Veterans Affairs (VA) department. U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion 4th Marines walk by their vehicle during sunset at base Delaram in Nimroz province, southern Afghanistan,...
Hamtramck man to be deported, leaving behind six U.S.-born children
January 16th, 20100 A Hamtramck man who's been in the U.S. for 27 years is set to be deported next week unless a U.S. Congressman intervenes. Anees Sous, (second right), a Hamtramck business owner who's been in the U.S. for 27 years, is set to be deported to Jordan on Wednesday, leaving behind six U.S.-born children, unless a U.S. Congressman...
Dubai debts prompt review of Islamic finance
January 16th, 20100 BEIRUT (IPS) - 'The World’ is a manmade archipelago off the coast of Dubai. Developed by the Nakheel real estate company - which partly relied on the issuance of Islamic bonds, or sukuk, to finance the ambitious project - it has come to symbolize for many the vulnerability of the Islamic financial market. “The World”...Israel declares war on peace NGOs
JERUSALEM (IPS) - One year after the devastating attack on Hamas in Gaza a new wave of reports castigating Israel for war crimes has emerged. Now, Israel is fighting back with a report on the reports, picking on international NGOs such as Amnesty, Christian Aid, Oxfam, Trocaire, Finn Church Aid, Diakonia and Cordaid. The...Only psychiatrists can explain Israel’s behavior
Our wild world of crime has recently been sent for observation. From the bodyguard of the IDF Chief of Staff to the killers of their own children - all have been sent for observation. The time has come, as is the custom around here, to send the country for observation, too. Maybe with ongoing treatment from specialists, the diagnosis...Letters to the editor: Dearborn School Board meetings heat up over contract negotiations
Contract negotiations should not be in the press To the editor: It is unbelievable that a member of the Board of Education would discuss contract negotiations in the press. ("Weathering the storm at schools," by Aimee Blackburn, The Arab American News, December 12-18, 2009). The step increases Ms. Blackburn refers to have not been...We need a new flight plan
Nothing sums up the pointlessness, the prejudice and the unfairness behind profiling better than the following incident, which the Council on American-Islamic Relations reported in an action alert: "A Muslim woman traveler taking a flight Tuesday from Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) to Los Angeles (LAX) reported that...An odyssey for justice in Gaza
The recent actions of people from around the world in support of the Palestinian people in Gaza have arguably represented the closest manifestation of international solidarity since the International Brigades against fascism during the Spanish Civil War. A bold assertion? Palestinian children stand in an abandoned car in the...Muslims march against alleged Christmas terorrist
DETROIT - About 150 people gathered in front of the Theodore Levin Courthouse in downtown Detroit on Friday, January 8, waving American flags and wearing t-shirts bearing the slogan of the day, "Not in the Name of Islam," in response to the attempted bombing of Flight 253 to Detroit by Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab....Suit alleges wage violations, discrimination
DEARBORN - Employees of Andiamo Dearborn filed a federal lawsuit against the restaurant on Tuesday for minimum wage and overtime pay violations. Labor activists demonstrate outside Andiamo Dearborn in support of restaurant workers who filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the Italian eatery, claiming wage violations and...Muslims meet with Macomb sheriff on bizarre death, genital mutilation of inmate
Mount Clemens - Mohammed Abul-Fazal Chowdhury Authorities have called the death a suicide. Chowdhury was being held in Macomb County Jail after being charged with murdering his wife. His attorney has asked for an independent investigation of the death. Macomb officials have said no evidence was found of the involvement of...Gaza activists return more determined than ever
When six Michigan Peace Team members booked trips to Egypt, they did so with the hope of crossing into Gaza and being part of a defining moment in the struggle to help free the besieged territory. An international peace activist waves to Palestinians upon his arrival at Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, December...
Cancer – the deadly legacy of the invasion of Iraq
January 16th, 20100 Reprinted from New America Media Forget about oil, occupation, terrorism or even Al Qaeda. The real hazard for Iraqis these days is cancer. Cancer is spreading like wildfire in Iraq. Thousands of infants are being born with deformities. Doctors say they are struggling to cope with the rise of cancer and birth defects, especially in...Cooking classes at mosque big hit
DEARBORN - An enthusiastic group gathered at the Islamic Center of America on Ford Road in Dearborn on Wednesday to share their love of cooking as part of the masjid's Maa-koul al Hanna event series. Wanda Fayz (third from left) leads a group of women during cooking classes at the Islamic Center of America on Wednesday. PHOTO:......
A second Gaza war around the corner?
January 16th, 20100 Moathe Abu Rabeeh (R), a 13-year-old Palestinian boy who lost his leg during the three-week offensive Israel launched last year, uses his laptop at his house in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip December 22, 2009. December 27 marked one year since the start of a three-week offensive Israel launched in Gaza during which more...
Dearborn students need us
January 16th, 20100 As the budget crisis in Dearborn schools deepens, as tempers flare and public debates intensify, we must remind ourselves how important it is to stop the bickering and the finger pointing and focus on working together as one city to find a viable solution to this crisis. After all, it is about our kids and our future. Dearborn schools......
New bill edges comprehensive immigration reform back on the legislative agenda
January 16th, 20100 After months of discussion and strategy meetings with immigrant advocates, labor unions, civil-rights groups, and others, a number of House Democrats have introduced the first immigration reform bill in the 111th Congress. The Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America's Security and Prosperity Act of 2009 (CIR-ASAP) bill,...U.N. faces its own major tragedy in Haiti
UNITED NATIONS - The major earthquake that struck Haiti Tuesday, causing death and destruction in the capital of Port-au-Prince, may also turn out to be a veritable disaster for the United Nations, which has over 9,000 personnel, including peacekeepers, international staffers and local civilians, scattered throughout the...
Last chance for MLK scholarship essay submissions
January 16th, 20100 Martin Luther King Day is Monday, Jan. 18. Seniors in high school have one last weekend to write essays for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee's annual Martin Luther King Jr scholarships. Applications must be submitted to the ADC Michigan office, 13530 Michigan Ave., Suite 329 in Dearborn, by Tuesday, Jan. 19. A...
675 million added to terrorism list
January 9th, 20100 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) undated handout image shows a composite of 4 separate scans, a female in the left two and a male in the right two, from a whole body scan machine, or millimeter wave machine. REUTERS/TSA (Transportation Security......
Renowned boxing trainer sees potential champions in Arab American community
January 9th, 20100 The historic Kronk Boxing Gym’s new location in Detroit’s Warrendale district, home to many recent Arab American immigrants, particularly from Iraq. If there's anyone in the state of Michigan or the United States for that matter who knows a good boxer when he sees one, it's Emanuel Steward. The Detroit native,...
U.S. poised to increase aid to Yemen
January 9th, 20100 WASHINGTON (IPS) - In the wake of a botched Christmas Day airliner bombing claimed by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the direction of what used to be called the "global war on terror" settled on Yemen this week, with the United States slated to escalate economic and military assistance to the country's beleaguered......
Burj Khalifa is tallest building in the world
January 9th, 20100 DUBAI - The world's tallest building was unveiled this week to an estimated on-site crowd of over 400,000 and the rest of the world, in a crescendo of fireworks, lasers and fountain displays. A general view of the Burj Dubai, the world's tallest tower, in Dubai January 3, 2010. REUTERS/Mosab Omar The official height of the...Yemeni detainees caught in bomb backlash
NEW YORK (IPS) - In the wake of the failed attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas day, legal experts and human rights advocates are pushing back against calls from politicians to halt the planned release of prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to their home country, Yemen. Yemeni Saleh Al Zoba (C), 60, a former......