He began spending time at the Selden mosque in the company of Ahmad Zarinni, who took Vinas under his wing, according to one mosque member.

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The Green Party - which is a member of the left-wing government - is opposed in principle to a third airport, arguing that it should be sited in the provinces to encourage decentralisation.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in 1949, but Orwell was first set on the road to it at least 12 years earlier when he was fighting Franco's insurgents in Spain as a member of a left-wing, but non-Stalinist militia, the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM).

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Di Canio was once a member of a hardcore right-wing fan group that follows his hometown team Lazio -- the club where he started his career and later got into trouble when he returned, when he made straight-arm salutes to the crowd in 2005.

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Jan Smerek, head of the supervisory board, is a member of parliament in Mr Meciar's left-wing populist party.

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Mr Azad was a junior leader in the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami party in 1971 and a member of the Razakar Bahini, an auxiliary force set up to help the Pakistani army by rooting out local resistance.

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In recent months, to combat the collapse in his own share of the projected vote (down from more than 40 seats to about 32 in the 120-member Knesset) Mr Netanyahu has tried to re-establish his right-wing credentials.

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Ms Morales had been criticised over her marriage to Carlos Alonso Lucio, a former congressman and ex-member of the demobilised M-19 guerrilla group, which has been linked to right-wing drug paramilitaries and drug traffickers.

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