The Arab American News back issues from June 2006:
U.S. military massacring innocent civilians in Iraq
Jun 03, 2006; ... Even with the Commanders of Kilo Company trying to cover up the truth surrounding the events in Haditha,Iraq last November, the truth of that day has finally come to light. What's the real story? Early that morning a bomb exploded under Kilo Company's Marine convoy. It took out the fourth ...
Palestinians: Stop perceiving victory in failure
Jun 03, 2006; ... To soften the hard-line position of Hamas on Israel, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas issued a threat last week to call for a national referendum within 10 days. This initiative seems to be rapidly losing momentum. Palestinian hard-liners see it as a ploy, while Israeli officials do ...
A new U.S. bid to contain Iran
Jun 03, 2006; ... WASHINGTON - After weeks of debate inside the Bush administration. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced Wednesday that the United States is ready to join direct talks with Iran - if Iran first suspends its uranium-enrichment activities. Saying the decision "gives the negotiation ...
Mocking Nasrallah on LBC sparks strong protests
Jun 03, 2006; ... BEIRUT - Thousands of Shi'a Muslims enraged by a TV comedy that mocked the leader of Hizbullah took to the streets of southern Beirut on Thursday night, burning car tires and blocking roads, police and witnesses said. The trouble began after an actor spoofed Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, ...
Better no immigration bill say rights groups
Jun 03, 2006; ... When the U.S. Senate last week passed its version of "comprehensive immigration reform," Senators from both sides of the aisle claimed that despite the enormous controversy it has generated, passing a bill with flaws was better than passing no bill at all. Outside the beltway and its coterie of ...
Group to host first Libyan officials
Jun 03, 2006; ... WASHINGTON, DC - The National US.-Arab Chamber of Commerce (NUSACC) will host a dinner and panel discussion June 5, 2006 for the first Libyan governmental delegation to visit the United States after the full normalization of diplomatic and economic ties with Libya. "NUSACC is honored to ...
Canadians told: No Geneva Convention in Afghanistan
Jun 03, 2006; ... A major controversy in the U.S. about prisoners in Afghanistan has made its way north to Canada. Canadian forces are being told that the Geneva Convention does not apply to Taliban and al-Qaeda prisoners. Paul Koring, writing in the Toronto Globe and Mail on May 31, quotes ...
Canadian government uses dirty tricks
Jun 03, 2006; ... Jack Hooper, an official with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), told a committee of the Canadian Senate this week that CSIS engaged in harassment to disrupt potential terrorist efforts when there was not enough evidence to lead to arrests. One of the victims of such ...
Palestinian faces deportation from Canada
Jun 03, 2006; ... Issam Al-Yamani, the Executive Director of Palestine House, a social ageney in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga that assists newcomers to Canada and promotes Palestinian culture, is in danger of deportation. He has lived in Canada for over 20 years and is a graduate of York University in ...
Israeli Arabs poorest, most marginalized citizens
Jun 03, 2006; ... Israeli Arabs poorest, most marginalized citizens Although much of the outside world's attention to the Israel/Palestine conflict is focused on the occupation of the Palestinian territories, there is another great injustice that is often overlooked: the situation of the population of ...
Adel Harb running for 19th District Judge
Jun 03, 2006; ... DEARBORN - Attorney Adel Harb is one of two Arab American candidates running for 19th District Judge. This week he spoke to The Arab American News about his plans. Moving to Kalamazoo from Lebanon in 1977, when he was just 12 years old, Harb said both his education and experience make ...
Suleiman talks about Arab American experience
Jun 03, 2006; ... DEARBORN - Michael Suleiman visited Dearborn's Arab American National Museum on May 25, to give a lecture on early Arab American immigrants in the Museum library. His talk, taking place between 6 and 8 pm, was attended by a number of experts as well as attendees with just a passing interest in ...
Buzz surrounds IKEA opening
Jun 03, 2006; ... CANTON - IKEA, the home furnishing store that epitomizes affordability with slick modern design, will open the doors of its Canton, Michigan store at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, June 7, 2006. The store itself is enormous. It totals 311,000 square-feet and is located on 21 acres along Ford ...
Alamo Car Rental guilty of religious bias
Jun 03, 2006; ... PHOENIX - In a legal victory for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Arizona Federal District Court Judge Roslyn Silver ruled that Alamo Car Rental took part in post-9/11 backlash discrimination based on religion when it terminated a Somali customer sales representative in ...
King Tut brings old, new issues to fore
Jun 03, 2006; ... CHICAGO - Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, doesn't mind standing up for the rights of the dead. He may not have the same enthusiasm to stand up for the rights of the living. Hawass is a Pharaoh when it comes to Egyptian antiquities. And, he has ...
Reflections: Hamas nearing collapse
Jun 03, 2006; ... Hamas is boxed in and cornered. Palestinian President Abu Mazen will do the honors of clipping its wings and plucking its feathers. The struggle between the Palestinian Presidency and the Palestinian Government is deeper than it seems. It is almost a sectarian conflict between the "exiled" ...
Comcast recognizes local students with scholarships
Jun 03, 2006; ... SOUTHFIELD - Four students from the Dearborn area have been recognized by Comcast's Leaders and Achievers' Scholarship Program with a $1,000 grant from The Comcast Foundation for their exemplary commitment to community service, leadership skills, positive attitude and academic achievement. Each ...
Progress made in Israel boycott movement
Jun 03, 2006; ... Only weeks after Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert received a warm welcome from the American Congress and President George Bush, grassroots activists in Britain and Canada succeeded in winning institutional approval for divestment from and boycotting Israel. Motivated by what they see as ...
Local residents win big during St. Jude Dream Home giveaway
Jun 17, 2006; ... DETROIT - Valerie Duerr of Fenton is the grandprize winner of a newly-built, $365,000-valued home announced during the inaugural St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway in Oxford. Her winning ticket was pulled from among more than 6,140 other tickets during the WDIV Channel 4 live special on Sunday, June ...
Arab festival must continue to grow
Jun 17, 2006; ... The 11th Dearborn Arab International Festival is being held this Father's Day weekend. This year, festival-goers will attempt to set a world dance circle record by joining the hands of 7000 festival-goers in a circle to dance the dabke for at least 5 minutes. The dabke is a traditional ...
Israel's air strikes on Gaza politically motivated
Jun 17, 2006; ... The Israelis are a stiff necked people. They refuse to accept anything less than full acquiescence by anyone involved in their plans, no matter the cost - human, political, financial, or otherwise. Israel's non-stop aggression against Palestinians - averaging two Palestinian deaths a day for ...
Ann Coulter strikes again, this time against 911 widows
Jun 17, 2006; ... DEARBORN - Ann Coulter's latest book "Godless: The Church of Liberalism," which calls 9/11 widows who criticized Bush, selfish "broads" looking for fame, is drawing both intense fire and silence from different sides of the political spectrum. From a publisher's standpoint. Coulter's book ...
Guantanamo's first suicides pressure U.S.
Jun 17, 2006; ... GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA - Three Middle Eastern detainees being held without charges at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay hanged themselves, military officials said Saturday, becoming the first captives to take their own lives at the prison and prompting new calls for an immediate ...
Film addresses roots of Mideast conflict
Jun 17, 2006; ... Film addresses roots of Mideast conflict Mohammed Alatar, a Palestinian born in Jordan who lives in America, is a longtime peace activist. He founded Palestinians for Peace and Democracy, a grassroots group "dedicated to educating the public about the plight of the Palestinian people and ...
CAT urged to stop helping occupation
Jun 17, 2006; ... CHICAGO - Demonstrators urged Caterpillar Inc. to cease sales of militarized bulldozers to Israel outside the U.S. construction equipment company's annual shareholders' meeting here this week. Shouting "end the occupation now" and holding signs depicting the demolition of Palestinian ...
Prosecutor diversifies office, fights crime
Jun 17, 2006; ... DETROIT - On January 6, 2004, in Detroit, Michigan, Kym Loren Worthy was sworn in as the chief law enforcement officer of Wayne County. Surrounded by family and friends, it was an historic moment as Worthy became the first African-American, and the first woman, to become the Wayne County ...
Chomsky speaks to Muslim gathering
Jun 17, 2006; ... NEW YORK - Venue changes, delayed flights and a lack of funds did not hinder the newly formed Muslim organization, Independent Viewpoints (IV), from successfully hosting an event here two weeks ago with Dr. Noam Chomsky entitled, "A Dialogue on Shias, Sunnis and Politics in Iraq." IV was ...
Canadian Muslims struggle with extremism
Jun 17, 2006; ... Canadian Muslims have been appalled by the arrests of 17 men accused of plotting terrorism. The Canadian Islamic Congress has asked the government for funding to study extremism, and on June 8 a group of Muslim organizations, called together by the Council on American-Islamic Relations-Canada ...
Save Darfur coalition has made situation worse
Jun 03, 2006; ... Thousands of Americans who wear green wristbands, and demand military intervention to stop Sudan's Arab government from perpetrating genocide against black tribes in Darfur, must be perplexed by recent developments. Without such intervention, Sudan's government last month agreed to a ...
Improving the conditions for workers in Bahrain
Jun 03, 2006; ... MANAMA (Reuters) - Labor activists gathered in the Gulf Arab state of Bahrain this week in a campaign to improve the conditions of millions of migrant workers whose mis-treatment has drawn international attention. Earlier this year construction workers in the United Arab Emirates rioted ...
Canadian no-fly list planned
Jun 03, 2006; ... The no-fly list is a reality in the United States, and plans are to establish one in Canada. In the U.S., there have been 26,000 people who have filled out a form supplied by the Transport Security Agency complaining about difficulties with the system. One estimate is that there are 80,000 names ...
Ontario union supports Israel boycott
Jun 03, 2006; ... On May 17, at its convention in Ottawa, the Ontario Division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) voted to support a boycott of Israeli goods and divestment from Israeli companies. CUPE is Canada';s largest union, and a pamphlet entitled "The Wall Must Go" can be found on its web ...
Justice Department wants to hear about local voting discrimination
Jun 03, 2006; ... DEARBORN - John Tanner, Chief of the Voting Section at the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division came to Dearborn to discuss any concerns the Arab American community has regarding its right to vote and the voting process. The DOJ has identified the Detroit area, along with ...
Community CALENDAR
Jun 03, 2006; ... To get your events listed email info@arabamericannews.com or fax to 313.582.7870 Ongoing Treasures of Islamic Art. A changing display of UMMA's finest ceramics, metalwork, calligraphy and painting from the classical Islamic civilizations of North Africa and the Middle East. Shown ...
2006 ADC Convention promises to be best yet
Jun 10, 2006; ... WASHINGTON, DC - The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) will be holding its 26th Annual Convention in the Wardman Park Marriott Hotel in Washington, DC. The Convention, which is the largest annual gathering of Arab Americans and supporters, starts on June 15 and runs through June ...
The death of al-Zarqawi: Killing a killer
Jun 10, 2006; ... Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, whose bloody campaign of kidnappings, beheadings and suicide bombings made him the most-wanted terrorist in Iraq, was killed when U.S. warplanes dropped 500-pound bombs on his isolated safe house this week. We welcome the elimination of al-Zarqawi, but we caution that his ...
Battle for Mogadishu continues
Jun 10, 2006; ... Allied warlords are fighting Islamic militants for control of a state barely functioning after decades of fighting. This could describe mid-1990's Afghanistan. The Taliban beat back a coalition of largely drug-running warlords (the Northern Alliance) to secure control over the conflicted ...
Hamas should accept 'Prison Document'
Jun 10, 2006; ... Palestinians are fighting Palestinians. Do they really need to make war if they cannot agree on peace- making? Little is known about a community of several thousand Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails. These prisoners follow the news and discuss politics. A West Bank ...
Israeli exceptionalism: Hamas is not the issue
Jun 10, 2006; ... Recently, the Aljazeera online English service posed a seemingly simple question: "Should (Israeli Prime Minister Ehud) Olmert talk with Hamas?" The question, of course, acquires ample meaning once examined against the backdrop of far-reaching political developments: Stalled peace talks ...
Iran receives anti-nuclear incentives
Jun 10, 2006; ... TEHRAN - A package of incentives that represents a major initiative by world powers to persuade Iran to curb its nuclear program contains "positive steps" but also some "ambiguities," the country's top nuclear negotiator said Tuesday. Speaking on state television after receiving the ...
Albright's take on religion and politics
Jun 10, 2006; ... Albright's take on religion and politics What struck me most about former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's new book, "The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God and World Affairs," was its humility. Throughout the book, Albright covers a range of topics, from the ...
Lieberman faces showdown over Iraq
Jun 10, 2006; ... MERIDEN, CT - After years of ardent support for the Iraq war, Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman could become that conflict's first big political casualty in a Democratic primary race fueled by rising anti-war anger. Lieberman, the party's vice presidential nominee in 2000, faces a ...
Turfe eyeing 20th District Court judgeship
Jun 10, 2006; ... DEARBORN HEIGHTS - David Turfe is one of three Arab Americans running for local district judge positions. In the final article of a three part series on the candidates, Turfe spoke with The Arab American News about his life and what he's trying to accomplish. The future 20th District ...
Immigrant rally covers issues, falls short in numbers
Jun 10, 2006; ... DETROIT - A mostly Latino crowd filled Saint Anne's Church in Southwest Detroit on Sunday, June 4, 2006 to meet in a forum and rally against national immigration legislation as well as call for new initiatives advancing immigrants' rights. Seventy-five different organizations were listed ...
Guido to serve as National Spokesperson for Mayors
Jun 10, 2006; ... LAS VEGAS - The 74th Annual Meeting of The U.S. Conference of Mayors concluded this week with the installtion of Dearborn, Michigan Mayor Michael A. Guido as the 64th President of the organization. More than 200 mayors gathered in Las Vegas for the Annual Meeting which was held June 2-6, ...
Muslim community remembers Ayatollah Khomeini
Jun 10, 2006; ... DEARBORN - A night to ponder the legacy of the late Ayatollah Sayed Ruhollah Khomeini took place at the Islamic Institute of Knowledge last Saturday evening. Khomeini's leadership of Iran's 1979 "Islamic Revolution" is considered to have been essential to its success, a watershed moment ...
Fordson's valedictorian is a 'remarkable young man'
Jun 10, 2006; ... DEARBORN - The Valedictorian of the Fordson High School class of 2006, Ali Moughania, is an exceptional young man. Not only did he graduate first in his class, but he was also honored with 23 awards and scholarships, including the William K. Brehm Honors Scholarship. This scholarship will pay ...
Meeting for new mosque in Warren
Jun 10, 2006; ... WARREN - "Meet Your Neighbors - Examining the Shared Heritage of Faith," was aprogram here of the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ) on Thursday evening, June 8, 2006. The program was co-sponsored by the city's first mosque under the direction of the Islamic Organization of ...
These guys were playing at terrorism
Jun 10, 2006; ... On Friday, June 2, the trap was sprung. It was about 6 p.m. Police staged a carefully controlled raid in an industrial park in Newmarket, north of Toronto, following delivery of a large quantity of inert material camouflaged to be an order of three metric long tons of ammonium nitrate ...
Impact of the arrests on Canadian Muslims
Jun 10, 2006; ... Canada is not fully immune to Islamophobia. At the end of April, even before the arrests for plotting terror, vandals in Trosi-Rivières, Quebec, plastered the doors of a mosque with anti-Muslim messages and copies of the Danish cartoons. After the arrests, more serious damage was done to a large ...
Comcast bundles cable, phone, internet service into great deal
Jun 10, 2006; ... SOUTHFIELD - Comcast this week announced that it has introduced a threeproduct bundle in parts of Southeast Michigan, offering its Enhanced Cable with ON DEMAND, Comcast Digital Voice and Comcast High Speed Internet products for $33 each for 12 months when customers subscribe to all three. The ...
Dearborn's Au Bon Pain will feature first-ever Suburban Cafe
Jun 10, 2006; ... DEARBORN - When Au Bon Pain opens its 255th U.S. restaurant in Dearborn, Michigan on June 14, that 22219 Michigan Avenue location will become a landmark for one of the country's largest bakery-cafe chains - the first-ever of Au Bon Pain's new "Suburban Café" concepts to open anywhere in the U.S ....
The war on terrorism
Jun 10, 2006; ... What has this war achieved so far? How long do we expect it to continue? What does victory look like? These are all legitimate questions that a nation must ask when it declares a war. The public deserves honest answers from its leaders. I offer my humble answers to such far reaching ...
Linda Jaber awarded for study of diabetes in community
Jun 10, 2006; ... Linda A. Jaber, PharmD, has won the 2006 Excellence in Research Award in the area of clinical research from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) Foundation. She is a faculty member in the Pharmacy Practice Department of the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, ...
Community CALENDAR
Jun 17, 2006; ... To get your events listed email info@arabamericannews.com or fax to 313.582.7870 Ongoing Treasures of Islamic Art. A changing display of UMMA's finest ceramics, metal work, calligraphy and painting from the classical Islamic civilizations of North Africa and the Middle East ....
Young graduate dies in car accident
Jun 17, 2006; ... DEARBORN - The bright lights of fire trucks and ambulances illuminated the dark night of June 13th. A young and promising life was brought to an abrupt end and the community lost yet another member of its youth. While enjoying a night out with his younger brother and friends three days ...
Marine's music video causes controversy
Jun 17, 2006; ... The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) this week called on the Pentagon and Congress to "investigate a music video posted on the Internet that seems to show U.S. Marines cheering a song that glorifies the killing of Iraqi civilians. The military released a statement distancing ...
State Department official visits community, pushes Middle East Partnership Initiative
Jun 17, 2006; ... DEARBORN - Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Scott J. Carpenter, a key former advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority of Iraq and currently responsible for overseeing the State Department's Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), visited Dearborn this week. In an exclusive interview ...
Middle East wars flare up at Yale
Jun 17, 2006; ... NEW HAVEN- Juan Cole, one of the country's top Middle East scholars, was poised for the biggest step of his career. A tenured professor at the University of Michigan, Cole was tapped earlier this year by a Yale University search committee to teach about the modern Middle East. In two ...
Dearborn judgeship may be decided by absentee ballots
Jun 17, 2006; ... DEARBORN - Six candidates vying to be Dearborn's next district judge are squaring off in an important primary race August 8th, a race that may be decided based on absentee ballots. The top two vote-getters will move on to face off in the general election on Tuesday, November ...
Al-Zarqawi is finally dead
Jun 17, 2006; ... Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, the head of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, is finally dead. June 7, 2006 marked the terrorist's final day. He died in an explosion near Baghdad. Now they are celebrating his death in both Iraq and Washington, but that will not last long. The Al-Qaeda terrorist group will continue ...
Shocking memo from U.S. Embassy in Baghdad
Jun 24, 2006; ... Details increasing danger, hardship and uncertainty NEW YORK - The Washington Post has obtained a cable, marked "sensitive," that it says shows that just before President Bush left on a surprise trip last Monday to the Green Zone in Baghdad for an upbeat assessment of the situation ...
Try listening to the Muslim world
Jun 24, 2006; ... The new watchword phrase for the war is "the way forward in Iraq." To extricate himself from the quicksand of bad news from that conflict, President Bush came up with the theme just before his surprise June 13 visit to Baghdad. He told reporters days earlier that he was going to Camp ...
Palestinian humanitarian crisis deepens
Jun 24, 2006; ... The Palestinians are facing a spiralling humanitarian crisis because of an E.U. and U.S. freeze on aid to the Hamas government, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said. "The ICRC is deeply concerned about the growing needs and the worsening security situation in the ...
Court decision makes internment camps possible
Jun 24, 2006; ... "What will they do to us if there is another attack? Will they intern us like they interned the Japanese?" That is the most common question I get when speaking about counterterrorism policies and civil liberties to Arab and Muslim audiences. Until Wednesday, I assured them that such a ...