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Law Practice

Feb. 24, 2006

Arab-American Attorney Defends Muslims' Rights

WORK OF FAITH - On Sept. 21, 2001, I went to the Metropolitan Corrections Center prison in San Diego to meet my client Osama Al-Awadallah. He was being held as a material witness to the 9-11 hijackings. The prison guards brought me an Arab Muslim. He told me his story for an hour before I called him by name. He said, "Who is Osama?" I said, "Aren't you Osama?" He said, "No, I'm Modar Abdullah."

        
        Randall Hamud describes himself as a third-generation Arab-American and secularized Muslim. Fluent in Spanish, his speech peppered with Yiddish words, he seems like a typical all-American lawyer. Hamud received his bachelor's degree from UC Riverside in 1967 and his law degree from UCLA in 1970. He served as deputy city attorney to the city of Compton from 1971...

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