Original sentence: Ahmed Bedier of the Council on American-Islamic Relations noted of Hamid's participation in the Summit, "The Intelligence Summit is a group of neoconservatives and private intelligence agencies that are benefiting from the war on terrorism.And opportunists like Hamid and others at this event are bashing and cashing and making money from it.His comments were received with applause and cheers from the audience.Instead, they would prefer to simply 'kick butt,' as one speaker put it, and making realistic plans to enable regime change in Syria and Iran through assassinations and intimidation.The Summit describes itself as "non-partisan," but UPI reported of the 2007 conference that "most, if not all panelists seemed to be preaching to the choir.The conference, at times, had an air of a reunion of good ol' boys; all in sync with the program, rather than a group of very serious professionals out to warn the free world of the dangers facing democracies.... Many would rather 'not waste time' talking with governments they say will never keep its word