There had been speculation that an ultraconservative Salafist cleric, Mohammed Yusri Ibrahim, would be appointed.

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Vindication by a jury would be especially sweet for Mr. Bent, whose reputation as an ultraconservative investor was battered by his fund's losses.

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Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- An ultraconservative Islamist presidential candidate known for his anti-American views may be disqualified because of his mother's links to the United States, Egypt's Interior Ministry said Thursday.

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The league cast John Stagikas, 32, to play RJ Brewer, an ultraconservative American patriot who, his online biography declares, "feels that good morals and strong family values are the key to a successful country".

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Individuals continue to take an ultraconservative stance.

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His mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, told the AP that her son greatly enjoyed his time with her relatives, but never traveled to her native village in a mountainous region of Dagestan, which is a hotbed of an ultraconservative strain of Islam known as Wahabbism.

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