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Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick pleads guilty, resigns
Sep 06, 2008; Anonymous ... DETROIT - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to felony charges Thursday in a sex scandal and will step down after months of defiantly holding onto his job leading the nation's 1 Ith-largest city. He was ordered jailed for four months and fined $1 million. The plea deal brings to an ...
Muslim charities negotiate a minefield
Sep 06, 2008; Fisher, William ... NEW YORK (IPS) - As Muslims begin one of their most important holidays the month of Ramadan - charitable organizations serving the American Muslim community are taking what some observers believe is a desperate last step to keep the U.S. government from shutting them down. Muslim ...
Syria sets basis for peace talks
Sep 06, 2008; Jazeera, Al ... Damascus has sent a proposal to Israel laying out the basis for direct peace talks, Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, has said. "We are awaiting Israel's response to six points that we have submitted through Turkey," he said on Thursday. "Our response would be positive, ...
Stretching the truth at the GOP
Sep 06, 2008; Kuhnhenn, Jim ... Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth. Some examples: PALIN: ...
The Saudi Arabia of solar energy
Sep 06, 2008; Pentland, William ... In the wake of the first Gulf War, the U.S. Army assessed Saudi Arabia's solar energy resource potential in a classified effort to determine how oil fires had affected the region. The results were clear and surprising. In addition to being a vast petroleum repository, the desert nation ...
Iraq says all troops out by 2011
Sep 06, 2008; Porter, Gareth ... WASHINGTON (IPS) - Iraqi Prime Minister Noun al-Maliki signaled last week that that all U.S. troops - including those with non-combat functions - must be out of the country by the end of 2011 under the agreement he is negotiating with the George W. Bush administration. That ...
'Switzerland of the Middle East' looks for revival
Sep 06, 2008; Alami, Mona ... BEIRUT (IPS) - Lebanon was long dubbed the 'Switzerland of the Middle East1 for its advanced banking sector. It lost its status 23 years ago at the dawn of the 1975 civil war, which lasted 15 years. The country has since been unable to regain the title, in spite of the brief economic revival ...
Israel of the Caucasus
Sep 06, 2008; de Borchgrave, Arnaud ... WASHINGTON (UPI) - NATO guarantees that an attack against one member country is an attack against all are no longer what they used to be. Had Georgia been inside NATO, a number of European countries would no longer be willing to consider it an attack against their own soil. For Russia, ...
Israel pushes ahead with settlement expansion
Sep 06, 2008; Frykberg, Mel ... JERUSALEM (IPS) - Israel has published tenders for the construction of 1,761 illegal housing units for Israeli settlers in occupied east Jerusalem alone, according to the Israeli rights group Peace Now. The expansion plans come despite promises by the Israeli government at last year's ...
Religious accommodation in universities
Sep 06, 2008; Amdur, Reuel S ... Muslim students at McGill and the University of Montreal have been battling for prayer space, facing the contention of the schools that they are non-sectarian and not obliged to provide space for religious practices. Besides, they say, the space is simply not available. Students have complained ...
Our twenty-fourth year
Sep 06, 2008; Anonymous ... With this issue of The Arab American News, we head down the stretch to our Silver Anniversary. That momentous event will occur September 7, 2009. Twenty four years ago, not many people believed it would ever happen. Over the past year, we have strengthened our outreach to and coverage of ...
Neither respected nor feared
Sep 06, 2008; Wheatcroft, Geoffrey ... In an exalted phrase, the keynote speaker at the Republican convention reviewed the record of the administration, and asked, "When have we rested more secure in friendship with all mankind?" That wasn't in St. Paul, where the Republicans are gathered this week, but at the 1904 Republican ...
Sarah Palin's frontier justice
Sep 06, 2008; Williams, Patricia J ... Long before any of us knew about Sarah Palin's daughter's baby-daddy, the stage was being set. And the narrative that preceded her apotheosis was one of life and death. The Palin family "chose not to murder that beautiful soul," said an evangelical friend, as she closed her eyes and lifted her ...
Al-Arian finally free; ex-professor released on bail
Sep 06, 2008; Youmans, Will ... Dr. Sami Al-Arian, the Palestinian professor at the center of a terrorism case, was jusf granted a release on bond after five-and-a-half years in government detention. He will await further legal proceedings with his family in Virginia. His many supporters around the country are relieved that he ...
Bully-Cummings retires as Detroit Police Chief
Sep 06, 2008; Anonymous ... DETROIT - Detroit Police Chief Ella Bully-Cummings, who was appointed by Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, announced her retirement Thursday through a news release minutes after Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to two felonies and agreed to resign. Assistant Chief Ralph Godbee and Assistant Chief Robert ...
Nader to rally in Detroit
Sep 06, 2008; AlHajal, Khalil ... After two weeks of intense media focus on the Democratic and Republican parties, independent candidate Ralph Nader intends to have his voice heard as he tours the Midwest gathering support for his anti-war, anti-corporate message. Nader, who is Arab American, is scheduled to travel to ...
Auto leases suspended for most vehicles
Sep 06, 2008; Meyer, Nick ... DEARBORN - After a pricing competition that has hurt dealerships' bottom lines, GM and Chrysler have suspended leasing programs for many cars across the country. Local sales consultants say that the problem has become as big in Michigan as it has anywhere else, if not worse, because of ...
Peace team members arrested at Republican National Convention
Sep 06, 2008; Anonymous ... MINNEAPOLIS, MN - Late Wednesday, September 3, while working to keep people out of harm's way outside a concert at the Republican National Convention, Rev. Peter Dougherty of Michigan Peace Team and three members of the Minnesota Peace Team were arrested, handcuffed, detained for almost five ...
Ghamloush brothers corner the market
Sep 06, 2008; Meyer, Nick ... DEARBORN - Many people dream of getting a chance to travel across Europe. But it took a nightmare for Joe Ghamloush to get that chance. Ghamloush, owner of three businesses on the comer of Warren and Chase roads in East Dearborn including Arabica Bistro and Coiffure D'Elegance Salon, was ...
ACC celebrates 29 years of service
Sep 06, 2008; Anonymous ... DETROIT - The Arab American and Chaldean Council (ACC) will host its 29th Annual Civic and Humanitarian Awards Gala at the Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center, 100 Renaissance Center, at 6 pin. Sept. 13. ACC is dedicating its annual fundraiser this year to honoring foundations that have ...