http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=detroit
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Thursday, May 10, 2007
“Detroit Bans Police from Asking Immigration Status”
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http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070510/NEWS01/705100453/1001/NEWS
DETROIT
“City Council approves ordinance to prohibit the profiling of immigrants”
May 10, 2007
BY NIRAJ WARIKOO
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1819417/posts
“Two Detroit men charged as Iraqi spies”
reuters.com ^ | 4-18-2007 | staff writer
Posted on 04/18/2007 10:22:44 AM PDT by bedolido
DETROIT (Reuters)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1819068/posts
“Mich. Men Accused of Spying for Iraq [pre-2003 war]”
AP via Forbes ^ | April 17, 2007 | David Aguilar
Posted on 04/17/2007 8:09:31 PM PDT by jdm
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Two Michigan men spied for the Iraqi government before the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of the country, federal authorities said Tuesday.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The Detroit area contains one of the nation’s largest concentrations of people with roots in the Middle East, including an Iraqi community of Chaldeans, who are Catholic, Arabs and Kurds. Many from Iraq fled their homeland during the rule of Saddam.”
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1696286/posts
“Charges dropped in Mich. cell phone case”
AP / Yahoo! News ^ | Tue Sep 5, 9:07 PM ET | DAVID N. GOODMAN
Posted on 09/06/2006 4:40:52 AM PDT by FreedomPoster
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “DETROIT - A federal judge threw out conspiracy and money laundering charges Tuesday against three Texas men once accused of plotting a terror attack on Michigan’s iconic Mackinac Bridge.
U.S. District Court Magistrate Charles Binder in Bay City ruled that federal prosecutors failed to present enough evidence to justify bringing them to trial on charges involving the buying and resale of prepaid cell phones. They were cleared earlier of the terror charges.
Defense lawyers claimed the men — Louai Othman, 23, his brother Adham Othman, 21, and their cousin Maruan Muhareb, 18, all of Mesquite, Texas — were targeted because of their Middle Eastern heritage. All are Palestinian-American.
“I’m happy to be going home, and I’m happy that I’m free,” Adham Othman said through his lawyer, Christopher McGrath.
The three were arrested Aug. 11 after buying large numbers of prepaid cell phones at a Wal-Mart outlet in Caro, about 80 miles north of Detroit.
Tuscola County authorities said they were alarmed by the hundreds of prepaid cell phones they said were found in the men’s van and by images on their digital camera of the five-mile-long Mackinac Bridge, which links Michigan’s two peninsulas.
They charged the men with collecting or providing materials for terrorist acts and with surveillance of a vulnerable target for terrorist purposes.
The FBI and state police later said there was no imminent threat to the landmark span and no information linking the Othmans and Muhareb to known terrorist groups.”
I was over at the Cell Phone thread and posted some additional links/snippets.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1682087/posts?page=359#359