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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is a young, educated Nigerian who allegedly tried to blow up Delta Flight 253 bound for Detroit on Christmas Day. Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah, shot to death in nearby Dearborn, Mich., by FBI agents last Oct. 28, was an African-American felon with an apparent penchant for stolen goods and a far-fetched wish to establish a Shari'a state on American soil. The two had nothing in common other than being Muslims. And yet with the release Monday, Feb. 1, of Abdullah's autopsy, their cases continue to haunt one of metropolitan Detroit's few successful...
...which we openly term an enemy of the Muslim world. So let the U.N. assume responsibility for solving the crisis. We don't want to see any more pictures of war-torn Kosovo and the miserable plight of its people. We want the conflict properly settled soon. ALIYA SHAHNOOR AMEEN Chittagong, Bangladesh...
...windfall. Bahrain, which produces a mere 42,000 bbl. of oil a day (Saudi Arabia's output: more than 8 million), decided to hunt for more crude. In 1989 Bahrain officials suddenly and mysteriously broke off promising talks with Amoco. One minister then telephoned an old friend, Michael Ameen, the respected former head of Mobil's Middle East operations. "They wanted a small American company," claims Ameen, who says he drew a blank. But 10 minutes later, Ameen got a call from an investment banking friend in Arkansas, who recommended Harken...
...Harken had almost no cash to carry out the job, so it brought in the billionaire Bass brothers to finance the drilling, which could ultimately cost $50 million. What remains inexplicable is why Ameen or the Bahrainis didn't go to the Basses or other experienced wildcatters in the first place...
...What has happened to Joe is symbolic of the plight of Black South African journalists," current Nieman Fellow Ameen Akhalwaya said yesterday. "More than any other journalist, he has shown the courage that the award stands for." Akhalways is a political reporter for the South African Rand Daily Mail...