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By Kelly Thornton UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER January 4,2003

He was there in the crowd, marching across the Laurel Street bridge in Balboa Park, ranting in Arabic as others chanted "No justice, no peace!" and waved posters. One placard featured a slain Palestinian child and the slogan, "Who is the terrorist?" With every angry shout, every fist thrust into the air against U.S. support of Israel, future

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Associated Press Mohdar Abdullah listens during an interview at the immigration jail in Otay Mesa, where he is still in custody while fighting deportation. A judge yesterday denied his request to be released on bond. Abdullah

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terrorist Nawaf Alhazmi took part in a cherished exercise of American democracy: the peaceful anti-government demonstration. Lo

Standing with him in the park that isth day of October 2000 was Mohdar Abdullah, probably the closest friend the three San Diegolinked hijackers had here, and likely the only one permitted to glimpse the psyches of men who ultimately helped crash a jet into the Pentagon. "Nawaf was yelling, holding signs and posters with pictures of children being slaughtered," Abdullah said, recalling the protest that occurred almost a year before the attacks. "Nawaf was really infuriated about the massacres of our brothers and sisters in Palestine, and the blind eye turning toward the conflict."

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But Alhazmi had his own agenda. "He was directing his voice to the Muslims," Abdullah said, "trying to push his own opinion that Palestine is not going to be liberated by signs and posters."

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