But CAIR sometimes seems to have trouble deciding exactly which side it is on. The group claims it does not "support terrorism in any way, shape, or form," but its executive director, Nihad Awad, has stated publicly: "I am a supporter of the Hamas movement," one of the leading terrorist groups fighting to overthrow the State of Israel. And he's hardly the only terrorist sympathizer among CAIR's ranks: Siraj Wahaj, a member of the organization's advisory board, volunteered as a character witness on behalf of Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind sheik convicted of conspiracy in the first World Trade Center bombing. (Mr. Awad wrote that the trial was a "travesty of justice," and CAIR included the sheik's conviction in a list of "hate crimes against Muslims.")