Radical Islam in Ethiopia

March 21, 2010 9:53 PM   |   No Comments By some counts, there are about 600,000 Muslim and Arab-Americans living in greater  Chicago . Other estimates put the number closer to 250,000. No one knows for sure, which is why Muslim leaders today encouraged their community to participate in the 2010 census, so they can have an official count. "If we keep isolated, no one will know about us," said Yousif Marei, president of the Islamic and Arab Community Service Office in  Chicago 's  Albany Park  neighborhood. "It is time for us to let them know who we are." Muslim and Arab leaders have had to quell concerns within the community that personal information relayed on the census may be used to track people as part of anti-terrorism measures.

( VOA News ) Ethiopian Airlines officials are closely following a report that a captured terrorism suspect has told of a bomb aboard a plane that crashed off the coast of Lebanon in January. Investigators have not determined the cause more than two months after the crash. A report on a U.S. Internet Web site says British intelligence agents have reopened their investigation into the mysterious crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jet January 25. The Boeing 737 plunged into the Mediterranean Sea minutes after takeoff from Beirut airport, killing all 90 people aboard.