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AFRICA FEST 2006: Saturday, August 26 @ Warner Park
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Aggo...
Thank you for the timely response. I will let some of
our brothers and sisters know of this counseling. Keep
up the good work.
Settro
--- Aggo Akyea <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> AAM - AWA Family Picnic: Saturday, July 15 @ Elver
> Park
>
> AFRICA FEST 2006: Saturday, August 26 @ Warner Park
>
> Join African Association of Madison, Inc. for $25
> per year
>
> Mail check to; AAM, PO Box 1016, Madison, WI 53701,
> 608-258-0261, [log in to unmask],
> www.AfricanAssociation.org
>
>
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>
>
> Thanks for your message. Please check the following
> message that was posted on the AAM list in September
> 2005 on IMMIGRATION COUNSELING SERVICES.
>
> Let me know if this is helpful or you have other
> questions. Thanks again.
>
>
>
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>
> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:24:54 -0700
> From: Aggo Akyea
> Subject: ANOTHER STRONG BENEFIT OF AAM
> MEMBERSHIP
>
> IMMIGRATION COUNSELING SERVICES
>
> In collaboration with Centro Hispano and the
> Jewish Social Services (JSS), AAM members can
> receive affordable immigration counseling and other
> services. The inexpensive and “within your means”
> fees for the services will be on a sliding scale,
> and could be free based on an individual’s financial
> and credit status.
>
> The program is a partnership with JSS which funds a
> position at Centro Hispano. Janice Beers is the
> immigration specialist with JSS. She will have
> office hours at Centro Hispano to see clients by
> appointment only on Monday’s from noon to five in
> the afternoon (12 noon to 5:00 PM).
>
> For appointment to see Janice Beers at Centro
> Hispano, please call:
>
> Centro Hispano
> 810 W. Badger Rd.
> Madison, WI 53713
> tel. 608.255-3018
> fax. 608.255.2975
>
>
> Isaac Settro <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
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> AAM - AWA Family Picnic: Saturday, July 15 @ Elver
> Park
>
> AFRICA FEST 2006: Saturday, August 26 @ Warner Park
>
> Join African Association of Madison, Inc. for $25
> per year
>
> Mail check to; AAM, PO Box 1016, Madison, WI 53701,
> 608-258-0261, [log in to unmask],
> www.AfricanAssociation.org
>
>
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>
>
>
> Hey Aggo....
>
> Do we have an immigration committee or relief
> committee? I am interested in said area. I have been
> meeting with some folks in the Madison area in the
> Hispanic community who are helping their people.
> Most
> of our African brothers and sisters are struggling
> in
> this vain and are hiding under the radar screen. We
> need to do something Mr. President.
>
> Look forward to hearing from you.
>
> Settro
>
>
>
> --- Aggo Akyea wrote:
>
> >
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> > AAM - AWA Family Picnic: Saturday, July 15 @ Elver
> > Park
> >
> > AFRICA FEST 2006: Saturday, August 26 @ Warner
> Park
> >
> > Join African Association of Madison, Inc. for $25
> > per year
> >
> > Mail check to; AAM, PO Box 1016, Madison, WI
> 53701,
> > 608-258-0261, [log in to unmask],
> > www.AfricanAssociation.org
> >
> >
>
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> >
> >
> >
> > Militant leader emerges in Somalia
> >
> > By Marc Lacey
> > The New York Times
> > MONDAY, JUNE 26, 2006
> >
> > NAIROBI: The jockeying for power inside Somalia
> > took a potentially ominous turn for the United
> > States over the weekend as a hard-line Muslim
> sheik
> > whom the Bush administration has linked with
> > terrorism emerged as the leader of the militants
> who
> > seized control of Mogadishu this month.
> >
> > Hassan Dahir Aweys was named head of the Council
> > of the Islamic Courts, a newly formed Parliament
> for
> > the Sharia courts that defeated Mogadishu's
> secular
> > warlords on June 5. Previously, the public face of
> > the Islamists had been Sharif Ahmed, a more
> moderate
> > sheik who had spoken of his desire to work with
> the
> > West.
> >
> > Aweys is a former Somali Army colonel who was vice
> > chairman of Al Itihad, a Islamic group that
> > Washington labeled a terrorist group in the weeks
> > after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Aweys, 71,
> who
> > sports a bushy beard that he dyes bright red with
> > henna in the traditional Somali way, was similarly
> > cited for links to terrorism and banned from
> > visiting the United States. No evidence to back up
> > the claim was given at the time.
> >
> > Although a reclusive man, Aweys has spoken to
> > reporters in recent months, disavowing links with
> > terrorism and accusing the West of being too quick
> > to label Islamist leaders as extremists. Still,
> > Aweys, who comes from the powerful Ayr clan, has
> > told his followers that God would forgive them for
> > spilling the blood of any foreign peacekeepers who
> > set foot on Somali soil. He has also accused
> Somalis
> > who hand over their countrymen to American
> officials
> > in exchange for cash of "selling us to the Jews."
> >
> > The appointment of Aweys to head an 88-member
> > council took place Saturday night at a meeting of
> > Islamic leaders in Mogadishu. The gathering came
> > just days after a delegation of Islamists had
> agreed
> > to recognize, and work with, the secular
> government
> > that was formed in 2004 after long negotiations
> > involving all of the country's clans. That United
> > Nations-backed government, now based outside the
> > capital in the town of Baidoa, is struggling to
> gain
> > a foothold.
> >
> > Aweys is an avowed critic of the secular
> > government and a long-time foe of its president,
> > Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed. Aweys has repeatedly
> declared
> > that an Islamic state is the only answer for
> > Somalia. Aweys and Yusef fought each other in the
> > 1990s and those who know them said the enmity
> > remained.
> >
> >
>
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> > Copyright © 2006 The International Herald Tribune
> > | www.iht.com
> >
>
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