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10-30-2009, 07:06 PM
Iraqi man accused of running down daughter found in Atlanta
October 30, 2009 1:47 p.m. EDT
CNN
Photo: Noor Faleh Almaleki, 20, remains hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.
Authorities said Friday that an Iraqi man, accused of running down his daughter in Arizona because she had become "too Westernized," has been taken into custody in Atlanta, Georgia.
U.S. Marshals arrested Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, in Atlanta, according to spokesman James Ergas.
Police in Peoria, Arizona, say Almaleki struck his 20-year-old daughter, Noor Faleh Almaleki, and her friend Amal Edan Khalaf with a vehicle he was driving in a parking lot October 20.
Authorities launched a search for Almaleki afterward.
He was angry with his daughter "as she had become too 'Westernized' and was not living according to [the family's] traditional Iraq[i] values," Peoria police said in a statement released last week.
Almaleki was taken into custody at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the Marshals Service said.
It was not immediately known why Almaleki was in Atlanta.
After the incident, Noor Faleh Almaleki was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries, according to police. Khalaf, 43, received injuries that were not life-threatening, police said.
Earlier this week, police said both women remained hospitalized, according to CNN affiliate KTVK.
Further details on their conditions were not immediately available.
Noor Faleh Almaleki lives with Khalaf, Peoria police said. They did not elaborate on how the two women knew each other.
Peoria is about 13 miles northwest of Phoenix
October 30, 2009 1:47 p.m. EDT
CNN
Photo: Noor Faleh Almaleki, 20, remains hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.
Authorities said Friday that an Iraqi man, accused of running down his daughter in Arizona because she had become "too Westernized," has been taken into custody in Atlanta, Georgia.
U.S. Marshals arrested Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, in Atlanta, according to spokesman James Ergas.
Police in Peoria, Arizona, say Almaleki struck his 20-year-old daughter, Noor Faleh Almaleki, and her friend Amal Edan Khalaf with a vehicle he was driving in a parking lot October 20.
Authorities launched a search for Almaleki afterward.
He was angry with his daughter "as she had become too 'Westernized' and was not living according to [the family's] traditional Iraq[i] values," Peoria police said in a statement released last week.
Almaleki was taken into custody at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the Marshals Service said.
It was not immediately known why Almaleki was in Atlanta.
After the incident, Noor Faleh Almaleki was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries, according to police. Khalaf, 43, received injuries that were not life-threatening, police said.
Earlier this week, police said both women remained hospitalized, according to CNN affiliate KTVK.
Further details on their conditions were not immediately available.
Noor Faleh Almaleki lives with Khalaf, Peoria police said. They did not elaborate on how the two women knew each other.
Peoria is about 13 miles northwest of Phoenix