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Aslam Abdullah, editor of The Minaret, left, Maher Hathout, Islamic Center of Los Angeles spokesman and a senior adviser for the Los Angeles chapter of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, center, and Salam Al-Marayati, National Director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, right, hold a news conference at the Islamic Center of Los Angeles, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2001, to discuss the arrests of the chairman and another member of the Jewish Defense League on suspicion of plotting to blow up a Los Angeles mosque and the office of an Arab-American congressman. (AP Photo/Lucy Nicholson)