posted on March 19, 2003 01:53:48 AM new
In Michigan, there is a city called Dearborn, which lies directly south of Detroit. It's where Ford Motor Company world headquarters is located. Also, Dearborn has the largest concentration of Middle Eastern population in the US. Here they protest. Could the Iraqi people protest in their own country?
"I think the United States is now on the right track to get rid of Saddam Hussein and help the Iraqi people to bring democracy," said Jabir Algarawi, the director of the Arizona Refugee Community Center in Phoenix, and one of the 3,000 Iraqis who have settled in Phoenix since the Gulf War ended.
"I want peace in Iraq. So if you are for peace, you cannot be for Saddam. It is all about changing the regime," said Ala Faik, a real estate agent in Ann Arbor, 45 miles down Interstate 94 from Detroit. Like almost everyone who has settled here from his homeland, he simply knows that Saddam has to go by any means necessary.
DETROIT-- About 500 Arab men marched around the McNamara Federal Building Wednesday to voice their anger at Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and to show their support for the United States.
When he gets the phone call, Iraqi exile Adnan Alzurufi won't hesitate.
He'll leave his Detroit home, his wife and seven kids, board a plane for a country that borders Iraq, then sneak into his homeland to join others in the fight against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
