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in April 1994. The group made "feverish use" of fax machines and later an
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and sympathy for the perpetrators." Its splinter group, the
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contracts and other commercial deals" if "Mr Masari was not silenced," and a court battle ensued over
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Scholar Gilles Kepel has described CDLR and Al-Masari as "failing to raise any groundswell of support" within Saudi Arabia and "sadly lacking" in
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