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Salam al-Marayati, the executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), represents himself and his organization as stalwart opponents of terrorism who are actively working with the FBI and California law enforcement agencies to combat it. At a joint press conference with representatives of the FBI and the Los Angeles Police Department on October 14 of this year, Marayati waxed expansive and almost poetic in his glowing account of his organization’s cooperation with law enforcement agencies in the war against terrorism. MPAC has announced a “National Anti-Terrorism Campaign,” and is holding its 4th annual conference (see its poster here)...

Thursday, May 29, 2003 By The Jerusalem Times Staff The Jerusalem Times (independent Palestinian weekly) 29 May 2003 http://www.jerusalem-times.net/article/news/details/detail.asp?id=3412 Students demonstrated at the biggest Palestinian university, Al- Najah, in the West Bank city of Nablus, vowing to keep Jews out of Al Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam. Israel's police chief said last week he would open the mosque for Jews to pray even by using force if necessary. At the demonstration, which was organized by the Islamic Movement of Hamas, students warned the Israeli government not to allow Jews to enter the mosque compound. "We are ready...