The Alavi Foundation, recently accused of illegally providing funding and services to Iran, supported Middle Eastern culture and language programs at Harvard to promote Islamic education. Harvard Spokesman Kevin Galvin said that officials of the university were unaware of Alavi’s ties. Middle East studies Professor Roger Owen received grants from Alavi for his work at…
In his effort to adhere to Consitutional values, not sacrifice democratic ideals for security, and better defeat an unconventional enemy, President Obama decided to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantánamo Bay detainees for their actions as criminals in a NYC civilian trial. This move is a departure from former President Bush’s…
Self-professed 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) will be tried along with four perpetrators in a Manhattan court just blocks from Ground Zero. Attorney General Eric Holden is likely to pursue the death penalty for KSM. He says of the decision, “For over 200 years, our nation has relied on a faithful adherence to the…
Federal authorities made efforts to seize the Alavi Foundation’s 60 percent stake in New York City’s Piaget building on Fifth Ave. as part of their criminal allegations against the organization. The organization is accused of being a front for the Iranian government. “As today’s complaint alleges in great detail, the Alavi Foundation has effectively been…
As more than a million New York City public school students returned to class yesterday, Maria A. Aviles, the principal of Junior High School 45 in East Harlem, greeted children and reassured parents – a familiar opening-day ritual for a year that promises broad changes for the nation’s largest school system and its principals. (…)…
