La Shish is run by terrorist-sponsoring owners

[Jarodaka]

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artic.../605240372/1001

[owner Talal Khalil] Chahine, 51, and his ex-wife, Elfat El Aouar, 39, were indicted last week on federal tax evasion charges. Authorities say they took about $17 million from the restaurants over five years and sent it to their native Lebanon.

In addition, prosecutors also have outlined possible ties between Chahine and Hezbollah, a Lebanese group the U.S. government considers a terrorist organization, but Chahine and El Aouar have not been charged with any terrorism-related crimes.

That's terrorist falafel you're eating!

Allegedly!

[phee]

Jeez us

[The_Dark]

He ran too. Somewhere in lebanon now...

[Guest Megalicious]

HEY HEY NOW JAROD ... you like La Shish ... does this mean that YOU are sponsoring the terroist!!!

You remember that everytime you wipe the Lamb Shawarma from the sides of your mouth :laughing

[Jarodaka]

I'm kind of torn. That takeout I got was definitely sub-par. It was more like sub-sub-par. After sitting down for the vittles, though, their freshly made pitas and garlicy butter spread was irresisible.

[Msterbeau]

He ran too. Somewhere in lebanon now...

I'd run too. Innocent or guilty, the US has been pretty shady with how they've prosectued anyone suspected of terrorist ties since 9/11.

The four men charged in Detroit was a complete fiasco. The prosectutor from that is facing charges himself if I remember correctly.

I ate LaShish once. It was great. Well.. Not bad. :whistling

[BrassFusion]

Never tried LaShish...

And I really don't give a shit what they do with the money as long as it's not a sizable drain on our already uncomfortable economy, which I guess it is. I won't be eating there, but not because of any terrorist bullshit.

[Steven]

I love la shish.

mmm mmmm good.

shut up and bring me my lamb.....

[Hellion]

Never ate there before.

[Steven]

Never ate there before.

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its excellent.

maybe we can arrange a DGN food foray to a middle eastern joint and then top it off with some honey tobbacco hookah smoking with turkish coffee....my kinda good time.

[ManicQueen]

Best food ever! I loves me some grape leaves.

[Steven]

Best food ever! I loves me some grape leaves.

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I loves me some too. and their bread is to die for.

[Hellion]

its excellent.

maybe we can arrange a DGN food foray to a middle eastern joint and then top it off with some honey tobbacco hookah smoking with turkish coffee....my kinda good time.

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:devil Sounds like a plan

[Onyx]

Soooo, back to the subject

How does everyone feel about giving them business? What if we are financing terrorist activity? I love middle eastern food. I wish there was a LaShish within driving distance of me here.

and to admit something horrible here ...

I shop at Wal-Mart. A friend of mine tries to shame me into going to Meijer instead. I know all the objections, but it's really hard to go to Meijer when I can buy the very same things and pay wwaaaaaay less money at the big evil W.

Groceries for instance are so much cheaper there. I can literally come home with ten bags of groceries for the same price as about six at Meijer. I had a friend who worked there and loved her job, but I've heard there are employee abuses in some stores too. They do buy American products it seems - their Sam's brand is made here, right?

I'm not sure what to think about it all.

[Steven]

vote your concinous (sp? although my spelling is always jacked up because I type too fast) or eat it i should say.

If you really want to dig into it - youll see a disturbing chain of events no matter where you spend your dollars - and this includes funding american terrorism in south america and abroad.

me, I'm still a worker bee on limited funds.

its good for me and my headspace - to get away once in awhile. La shish is one of my favorite get away places. Maybe this is true and maybe not - but its not my calling personally to get involved in all of that, I have other fish to fry, but if you feel so led to pull back I still respect that.

I just think we have much more immediate social needs right here at home to attend to....like the raising/molding of our children.

By the way - I shop at Wal Mart too - because I cant afford anywhere else. Doesent make me a bad american - jsut makes me middle class, which used to mean somethign, but now only means that I must shop at Wal Mart.

[Jarodaka]

I shop at Wal-Mart.  A friend of mine tries to shame me into going to Meijer instead.

It's not like Meijer is the pinnacle of employee relations in the service sector.

They do buy American products it seems - their Sam's brand is made here, right? 

I'm not sure what to think about it all.

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I've no idea about the Sam's brand, but 70% of Wal-Mart commodities are made in China. Well, that was in 2004, anyway. It's probably gone up.

Vote with your wallet, don't try to solve the world's problems with your personal purchases. Remember, when you're spending less on groceries at Wal-Mart (or wherever) that leaves more money to spend elsewhere. So, in your shopping example, instead of 6 bags of grocery from Meijer, you can have 6 bags of groc and $20 from Wal-Mart. It's not like that $20 disappears from the economy.

[Fierce Critter]

Al Shallal kicks La Shish's ass. And at $2.75 per Shawarma, can't be beat.

[Steven]

Al Shallal kicks La Shish's ass. And at $2.75 per Shawarma, can't be beat.

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$2.75????

holy crap!!!

[Blackmail]

Never tried LaShish...

And I really don't give a shit what they do with the money as long as it's not a sizable drain on our already uncomfortable economy, which I guess it is. I won't be eating there, but not because of any terrorist bullshit.

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yeah i mean, why would you care about funding to hezbollah or Hammas or something like that, I mean they only kill a few hundred innocent people a year.

[BrassFusion]

yeah i mean, why would you care about funding to hezbollah or Hammas or something like that, I mean they only kill a few hundred innocent people a year.

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Anyone got an up-to-date death toll on the Iraq War?

Oh and btw... as one of two people on this thread who NEVER ate at La Shish... why am I getting singled out for funding the terrorists?

[Kitten]

whoa Al Shallal is just down the street from me, i gotta give that place a try

[Blackmail]

I like Anita's in Troy. It's Lebanese and my Iraqi friends tell me that it's too Americanized but the super felafil sandwich (minus beets, of course) is heavenly.

Screw Lasish, it's overpriced and they apparently support murderers.

Put it this way, would you eat at Jeffry Dahmers hamburger joint if you knew that he used to money to buy new knives to chop up people? What if the hamburgers were made from the flesh of the humans you just helped him kill? What if you were eating human flesh and it was undercooked? What if there were health code violations and the cook didn't wash his hands after going number two?

huh?

huh?

[Blackmail]

Anyone got an up-to-date death toll on the Iraq War?

Oh and btw... as one of two people on this thread who NEVER ate at La Shish... why am I getting singled out for funding the terrorists?

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what does the Iraq war have to do with this?

Anyway sorry if you think I singled you out. It's better tha hitting into a double play though. You are wise not to eat at la shish, it's overpriced and mediocre.

I went to that one on West Bloomfield back in the days when I used to fund terrorism and the atmosphere sucked so I stopped eating there and found alternate ways to help my good buddy Abu Musab Al Zarqawi. He used my camera phone to film his first beheading, which we were pissed about because Americas Funniest Home Videos wouldn't air it. Screw you bob saggit.

[BrassFusion]

It looked like you singled me out because you quoted me

I had a real jones for some middle eastern food today, and after reading articles about the LaShish guy, i'm willing to say there's not enough evidence that he actually DID fund a terrorist organization. So I went to their website and OH MY GOD are they expensive.

I'll probably wait a few days and make a pit stop by WSU at this place called Epicurus. Really cheap, and i think they use MSG or something. Addictive.

But Bmail... lighten up about the whole terrorist thing. Innocent until proven guilty, right?

[Blackmail]

It looked like you singled me out because you quoted me

I had a real jones for some middle eastern food today, and after reading articles about the LaShish guy, i'm willing to say there's not enough evidence that he actually DID fund a terrorist organization. So I went to their website and OH MY GOD are they expensive.

I'll probably wait a few days and make a pit stop by WSU at this place called Epicurus. Really cheap, and i think they use MSG or something. Addictive.

But Bmail... lighten up about the whole terrorist thing. Innocent until proven guilty, right?

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yeah I don't know anything about it, I just think the place sucks.

There is a place by wayne state that has $2 felafil sandwiches, they are awesome but I forget the name, I wonder if it's the same place.