Full-Court Press Boyhood pals, now doctors, team up to save man's life at Pistons' game. ROBIN SCHWARTZ Special to the Jewish News T he Detroit Pistons weren't the only ones working as a team during Game 3 of the NBA Finals. Amid the crowd of screaming fans packed into the Palace of Auburn Hills, two Jewish doctors who happen to be childhood friends teamed up to help save a life. Dr. Danny Rosenberg of Novi and Dr. Todd Marcus of Birmingham, both 35, sprang into action when 78-year-old Ed Szumowicz of Davison suddenly col- lapsed in the stands. "The guy slumped over in his chair, he looked pale, and by the time I got there, it was clear he wasn't breathing," said Rosenberg. "There was no heart rate," added Marcus. Both men rushed over from different sections of the sports arena to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Their quick action paid of As the two doctors did chest compres- sions and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, Szumowicz started breathing again. He gave a "thumbs up" to the crowd as paramedics carried him away on a stretcher. The two doctors are being hailed as heroes. "Luckily, he came around after a short time," said Rosenberg. "It's not about what I did or what Danny did — it's our job, its what we're trained to do," said Marcus. "This gentleman needed help and we were glad to do it for him," said Marcus. Although they're old friends, the emergency on June 14 was the first time that Rosenberg and Marcus had seen each other in years. They grew up together and attended Andover High School in Bloomfield Hills. Both men are now pediatricians — Rosenberg in Novi and Marcus in Livonia. Because of their lifesaving actions, the Palace gave them free tickets and invited them back for Game 4 to be honored. They hope their experience will encour- age people to learn CPR "It really didn't matter that I was a doctor," said Rosenberg. "What mat- tered was that I was there and I knew how to do CPR Anyone can do CPR, it's an inexpensive course, and it's very easy to take," he said. 111 Aiding Hezbollah Dearborn man sentenced to federal prison. DON COHEN Special to the Jewish News A .314 6/23 2005 22 34-year-old Lebanese man who entered the United States in the trunk of a car at the U.S.- Mexico border after paying $3,000 to bribe an official at the Mexican Consulate in Beirut, Lebanon, was sen- tenced by U.S. District Court Judge Robert Cleland on June 14 to 52 months in federal prison. Mahmoud Youssef Kourani accepted a plea bargain and pled guilty to con- spiring to provide material support to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, designat- ed by the U.S. government as a foreign terrorist organization. The original charge had a maximum penalty of 15 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. Kourani took up residence in Dearborn after entering the country in early February 2001. He was ordered deported in May 2003 for harboring an illegal immigrant, but before he could be sent back to Lebanon, he was indict- ed by a grand jury for the more serious offense of aiding Hezbollah. "Hezbollah is possibly the most sophisticated and dangerous terrorist threat that America faces," says Betsy Kellman, director of the Michigan Regional Office of the Anti-Defamation League. She compared it to Al Qaida. When told of Kourani's courtroom Drs. Rosenberg and Marcus at the Palace of Auburn Hills during Game 3 of the NBA Finals. The American Red Cross offers first aid and CPR courses at six different service centers in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties. Cost is $45 for eight hours of training. For information or to register, call the Red Cross, (313) 576-4100. Course schedules also are available online at www.semredcross.org statement that he didn't know he was raising finds for Hezbollah, Kellman said: "Kourani certainly has ties to Hezbollah, and we would be naive to think that he didn't have these connec- tions." The indictment stated that Kourani was "a member, fighter, recruiter and fund-raiser for Hezbollah" and that he had received "specialized training in rad- ical Shiite fundamentalism, weaponry, spycraft and counterintelligence in Lebanon and Iran." It also charged he had recruited and fund-raised for Hezbollah while in Lebanon, and held fund-raising meetings at his home in Dearborn in November and early December 2002. The indictment further stated that his brother, Haidar, who at the time was Hezbollah's chief of military security for southern Lebanon, oversaw Kourani's Dearborn-based activities. In another fil- ing, the government claimed that anoth- er brother had participated in "missions" and that they had evidence that a moth- er brother was also a Hezbollah mem- ber. It said: "Hezbollah has loyalists and operatives in numerous countries, including Ontario, Canada and the Eastern District of Michigan, made up of 34 counties in the eastern half of the Lower Peninsula." The government charged that Kourani employed the taqiyah, which it defined as "a Shia Muslim doctrine of concealment, pretense and fraud" that allowed him to avoid attending mosque services, shave his beard and keep his religious beliefs secret while in the U.S. Speaking before his sentencing, Kourani told the court through a trans- lator the he would "like to apologize to the U.S. and the American people" for committing the crime, but insisted he had been misled by a Lebanese scholar who convinced him to raise money for orphans. "I didn't mean to commit any crime, didn't mean to inconvenience the