Afsheen Shamsi is with the New Jersey chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations.

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Officials said it was unlikely Islamabad would allow the CIA to return to the Shamsi air base.

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Pakistan also ordered the United States to vacate Shamsi Air Base in Balochistan, from which many of the CIA drones were launched.

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"Every time a terrorist plot is averted, we breathe a sigh of relief because this is our home and this is our country, too, and we don't want to see it come to any harm, " CAIR's Shamsi said.

NPR: Mosque Attendance Falls After Terrorism Arrests