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In the first contested election in Indonesia's history, the assembly selected Abdurraham Wahid, a moderate Muslim cleric, as president.
The arrests of Salameh, Abouhalima, and Ayyad led the FBI to the Farouq mosque in Brooklyn, where a central figure was Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, an extremist Sunni Muslim cleric who had moved to the United States from Egypt in 1990.
1) Moderate Arab countries that boycotted a U.S.-sponsored conference last month are attending a global Islamic conference hosted by Iran, whose supreme cleric opened the meeting with a denunciation of the United States and its military presence in the Persian Gulf.
In Gates' essay, those who would favor a stand of principle over the ties of blut and boden (or even business)--whistle-blowers, antiwar dissenters, anyone who says "I often place my duty to society above my duty to my company"--are characterized as "William Godwin types all, letting their own dear mothers burn to a crisp with nary a second thought while they grandly escort some silk-bedizened cleric to safety."
Faced with the prospect of renewed rioting, Iran's chief cleric told hard-liners to chill out over a campus newspaper piece in Tehran that many found offensive, the NYT reports.