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...city is still waiting for $900 million it has requested from the feds, some of which would go toward training police officers. "We are continuing to ask Washington for that money," he says. In Detroit, a critical node of homeland security, given its heavily trafficked border and large Arab-American population, city officials say they have spent $10 million on helicopters, protective suits and beefed-up border patrols. But other needs, including a communications system that would allow the city's emergency teams to talk with one another and their Canadian counterparts, have been shelved until federal help arrives. Detroit...
...Zahr, an Arab-American from New Jersey, started attending RUS meetings after studying gender, feminist and queer theories. He also devoted two summers to researching the politics of the body and Middle Eastern sexuality...
...students carried everything from a large sign that read “Harvard Students Want Peace” to a poster bearing photographs of Arab children and the words “Free Bodybag With Every Fill...
More than ever, prominent Arab writers and activists are openly expressing opposition to Saddam without fear that they will be seen as American puppets. Earlier this month, 31 of them signed an open letter published in major Arab newspapers calling for Saddam's dismissal or resignation to avert a war. The signatories, who included the Palestinian-American writer Edward W. Said, described Saddam's rule as "a nightmare for Iraq and the Arab world...
...Indonesian, Malaysian and even Arab extremists have previously been known to take refuge in Mindanao. For example, both Agus Dwikarna and Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi, two prominent Indonesian militants currently under arrest in Manila for possession of explosives, did stints in Mindanao in the late 1990s. The MILF willingly provided training facilities to foreign fighters, but in the days following the war to oust the Soviets in Afghanistan, the group's hospitality was motivated more by international Islamist solidarity than by anti-Western jihad. In 2000, the Philippine military overran all of the MILF's bases?including its two biggest...