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Jewish officials are protesting U.S. House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt’s (D-Mo.) decision to appoint a controversial American Muslim leader to a counterterrorism commission. Salam Al-Marayati, who heads the Los-Angeles based Muslim Public Affairs Council, was named earlier this month to serve on the newly created 10-member National Commission on Terrorism, which will review policies aimed […]

July 1, 1999
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Jewish officials are protesting U.S. House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt’s (D-Mo.) decision to appoint a controversial American Muslim leader to a counterterrorism commission. Salam Al-Marayati, who heads the Los-Angeles based Muslim Public Affairs Council, was named earlier this month to serve on the newly created 10-member National Commission on Terrorism, which will review policies aimed at preventing acts of terrorism directed at the United States. Jewish officials remain troubled by statements Al-Marayati has made that they say justify or condone terrorism.

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