AP - In perhaps the boldest and most sophisticated attack in four years of warfare, gunmen speaking English, wearing U.S. military uniforms and carrying American weapons abducted four U.S. soldiers last week at the provincial headquarters in the Shiite holy city of Karbala and then shot them to death.
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Friday, January 26, 2007
African Union Sessions to Focus on Crisis in Somalia
"When member nations of the African Union meet this weekend, representatives hope to find a way to stabilize Somalia, where a weak government has beaten back Islamist forces with the help of Ethiopian troops. There is concern that the fighting will resume unless peacekeepers are introduced into the country."
Abu Ghraib officer to be tried
The only officer criminally charged in the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal will be court-martialed on eight charges including cruelty and maltreatment of detainees, an Army spokesman said Friday.
Study: Immigrants’ skin tone affects earnings
"Light-skinned immigrants in the United States make more money on average than those with darker complexions, and the chief reason appears to be discrimination, a researcher says."
Monday, January 22, 2007
New Orleans Survivors to be Barred from Cleaning up their Apartments
"The housing authority and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which has run New Orleans’ public housing since 2002, say damage from Hurricane Katrina has left thousands of apartments in housing projects unsafe. The agencies have approved plans to demolish the city’s four largest public housing complexes and other smaller sites."
"Attorneys for the Housing Authority of New Orleans e-mailed notice of their plans on Saturday to an attorney for tenants of the St. Bernard Housing Development. A handful of residents there joined hundreds of protesters for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day cleanup of the development."
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"Attorneys for the Housing Authority of New Orleans e-mailed notice of their plans on Saturday to an attorney for tenants of the St. Bernard Housing Development. A handful of residents there joined hundreds of protesters for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day cleanup of the development."
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Sunday, January 21, 2007
Katrina recovery head says feds working to bring jobs to New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS - The federal government hopes to talk 100 of the country’s top firms into bringing 100 jobs each to New Orleans to help the city recover from Hurricane Katrina, the head of the federal recovery operation said.
The object is to help rebuild the city’s middle class, Donald Powell, the Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Rebuilding, told The Associated Press.
Diversifying the city’s economy is a key part of New Orleans’ recovery, along with dealing with issues ranging from insurance and housing to health care, education and crime, Powell said in a telephone interview Friday from Washington.
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The object is to help rebuild the city’s middle class, Donald Powell, the Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Rebuilding, told The Associated Press.
Diversifying the city’s economy is a key part of New Orleans’ recovery, along with dealing with issues ranging from insurance and housing to health care, education and crime, Powell said in a telephone interview Friday from Washington.
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source - http://news.bostonherald.com/national/view.bg?articleid=178202
Arab-American to become first Massachusetts homeland securityArab-American to become first Massachusetts homeland security
Juliette Kayyem, who officially becomes undersecretary of homeland security on Monday.
says, “I hope I would have been chosen whether I was Arab-American or not. Arab-Americans are reaching the highest levels of their professions, and that is great,” Kayyem said. “And I think it says something that in national security, that hasn’t been true. I think the national security community has not been that receptive to people of a variety of descents.”
On racial profiling she says, “You have to weigh it (profiling) against the impact you’re going to have against a community you’re going to need cooperation from...The terrorists will alter their profile if we say we’re profiling,”
She was hired fresh out of Law School by newly appointed Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick back in 1995 when he ran the U.S. Justice Department’s civil rights division.
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source - http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=178378
says, “I hope I would have been chosen whether I was Arab-American or not. Arab-Americans are reaching the highest levels of their professions, and that is great,” Kayyem said. “And I think it says something that in national security, that hasn’t been true. I think the national security community has not been that receptive to people of a variety of descents.”
On racial profiling she says, “You have to weigh it (profiling) against the impact you’re going to have against a community you’re going to need cooperation from...The terrorists will alter their profile if we say we’re profiling,”
She was hired fresh out of Law School by newly appointed Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick back in 1995 when he ran the U.S. Justice Department’s civil rights division.
Read the full article here:
source - http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=178378
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