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Police: Dad ran over 'Westernized' daughter
by AP
Posted: 10.30.2009 at 8:37 AM
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PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) — Police in a Phoenix suburb say they have arrested an Iraqi immigrant suspected of running down his daughter because she was becoming "too Westernized."

Police in Peoria are releasing few details but say 48-year-old Faleh Almaleki is in custody. Police aren't saying where he was arrested or where he is being held.

Twenty-year-old Noor Faleh Almaleki is hospitalized in serious condition. Police say the Almalekis moved to the suburb of Glendale from Iraq during the mid-'90s.

Police say Faleh Almaleki was upset that his daughter had become too "Westernized" and he aimed his car at her Oct. 20 in a Peoria parking lot.

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