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At an Islamic conference in Washington DC, the BBC's Tara McKelvey found delegates split about President Obama's plan to attack Syria.
Ziyad Shalaby, a graduate student at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, says the US should launch strikes against President Bashar al-Assad's forces.
Mr Shalaby and his fiancee, Amal Omar, were at the Washington Convention Center in the US capital on Sunday for a conference sponsored by the Islamic Society of North America.