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Although gold is found in Awa land, it is not yet attracting big multinational companies.
This newly-created settlement is home to 150 Awa families, who have arrived from different indigenous reservations.
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The Awa started to fight the takeover of their territories for palm oil plantations 16 years ago.
That's what happened earlier this year to the Awa tribe in southwest Colombia.
"We are very worried about the Awa community, " said Monsignor Gustavo Giron Higuita, the bishop of the city of Tumaco.
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For the Awa - who call themselves "the people from the mountains" - this separation seems to be especially painful.
But Mr al-Awa alarms liberals and also Egypt's Christians, whom he has accused in the past of colluding with Israel.
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They all belong to the Awa tribe: indigenous people displaced by the Colombian conflict who are trying to build a new life.
One such potential figure is Muhammad Selim al-Awa, a conservative intellectual with ties to the Brothers who nonetheless defends the army's privileges.
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In total, more than 3, 000 Awa - almost 10% of their total number - have been displaced by the Colombian conflict during the last decade.
Mohammed said the hikers said they had come to the area because they heard it was safe, saying they were considering a trip to Ahmed Awa.
"Lately we are also worried about gold mining, " said Rider Pai, one of the leaders of Indigenous Union of the Awa People (UNIPA), founded in 1985.
The Awa people rank high in the list of 35 Colombian indigenous communities threatened by extinction because of the conflict published by the Colombian Constitutional Court.
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At the moment the vast majority of approved farmers have agreed to participate in the AWA online product search database which allows consumers to search for particular products or farms in a region.
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Ahmed Awa police spotted the hikers at one point Friday, Ahmed said, and warned them that they were near the Iranian border -- which is not marked -- and that they should be careful.
Another religious leader said the Awa need protection.
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The Awa territories have been particularly affected.
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Luis Evelis Andrade of the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia said the FARC had targeted the Awa because the Indians don't want to get involved in the armed struggle and refuse to reveal information on government troop actions.
Bauer, Shourd and Fattal left early Friday in a taxi for Ahmed Awa, a touristic town near Iraq's border with Iran, planning to hike in the mountains there, according to Peshrow Ahmed, spokesman for the security manager of Sulaimaniya.
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