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Detention transformed doctor into man of peace Saudi carries no bitterness home as he ends San Antonio stay 05/25/2002 By DAVID McLEMORE / The Dallas Morning News SAN ANTONIO - Dr. Al-Badr Al-Hazmi sits easily on the carpeted floor of the mosque. He speaks with a soft intensity, the words spilling out as he describes the day his life was turned upside down. Stony-faced FBI agents whisked him from his San Antonio home a day after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He was flown to New York and secreted in a detention cell for nearly two weeks. Like hundreds...

FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas, Feb. 17, 2006 – At a time in American history when black men were thought to lack intelligence, skill and courage, Dr. Granville Coggs proved those prejudices wrong. Dr. Granville Coggs, staff radiologist at Brooke Army Medical Center, evaluates a mammography X-ray searching for abnormalities. Photo by Andricka Hammonds  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Now 81 years old, Coggs is a radiologist at Brooke Army Medical Center, a gold medalist in the Senior Olympics, a former Tuskegee Airman and a former professor who made history. In 1943, Coggs was drafted into the Army for...