Nihad Awad, national executive director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, speaks at a news conference in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009, regarding the arrest in Pakistan of five missing American young men. Behind him is Haris Tarin, Washington director for the Muslim Public Affairs Council, left, and Imam Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Muslim American Society Freedom, right.
(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)