A Department of Homeland Security official moderated a panel on aiding engagement.
According to intelligence committee officials "moderate fighters" are those who "renounce terrorism", which is supposed to mean that they are not members of either of the jihadi groups Jabhat al-Nusra (al-Qaida's franchise in Syria) or Isis.
More recently, Chinese officials moderated their complaints and in some meetings did not raise the issue at all, administration officials say.
A warning came last November from upstate New York, when the movement forced the official but moderate Republican candidate out of the race for a vacant congressional seat.
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A new, more radical insurgent group has begun a campaign aimed at terrorizing both Afghan officials and moderate insurgents, according to Afghan officials.
But law enforcement officials and moderate Muslim scholars say that disengagement from society is what worries them most about the Tablighi Jamaat.
But some officials and moderate Cuban-American leaders have concluded that restricting transfers and travel would merely hurt ordinary Cubans and undercut the effort to build ties with independent people outside the government.
