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  • Haitian immigrants helped revive a struggling Ohio town. Then neo-Nazis turned up Springfield’s immigrant community was targeted by far-right extremists months before Trump shared racist rumors

    09/14/2024 5:24:55 PM PDT · by xxqqzz · 124 replies
    Guardian ^ | September 14, 2024 | Stephen Starr
    hile Donald Trump made baseless, dangerous claims that immigrants in Ohio were eating people’s pets in front of millions of viewers at Tuesday night’s presidential debate, Johnson Salomon, a Haitian man who moved to Springfield in 2020, was watching cartoons with his kids before putting them to bed. He got a text from a friend telling him to turn on the debate. When he saw the headlines about what the former president and Republican nominee in November’s election had said, he was in total shock. “This was a false claim. I couldn’t believe that such a high official could make...
  • The Syrian-French Connection

    09/29/2003 3:25:22 AM PDT · by kattracks · 10 replies · 89+ views
    FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 9/29/03 | Nir Boms
    While the media is busy focusing on the troubling story of the two American soldiers detained at Guantanamo Bay for alleged espionage, both of whom had Syrian connections, another Syria story has passed them by. The names of Ahmad al Halabi, an American of Syrian descent, and Captain James Yee, a convert to Islam who spent four years in Damascus before returning to active service, are now well known. But the name of Nizar Nayouf, a Syrian journalist and human rights activist that was detained last week by French police in Paris, will most probably stay anonymous.   Nayouf?s only...
  • He escaped Chemical Ali

    04/12/2003 8:54:18 AM PDT · by knighthawk · 3 replies · 183+ views
    The Times of India ^ | April 12 2003 | AUNOHITA MOJUMDAR
    NEW DELHI: "In a war you cannot guarantee anything" says Delhi-based Syrian journalist Dr Waiel S H Awwad, who has been reporting for the Al Arabiya channel on the Iraq war. Dr Awwad should know. His quest for `the other side' of the story led to his capture by Iraqi forces until a fortuitous escape, hours before he was to be handed over to 'Chemical Ali.' Covering the war from Southern Iraq, there was only one option - to embed with the US troops. Awwad and his team of two Lebanese journalists were briefed about safety as well as given...