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In the Ground Zero mosque saga now playing out under the grim shadow of the Sept. 11 Islamist attacks, one of the weirdest motifs is the summer vanishing act of the imam who peddled this project, Feisal Abdul Rauf. His name is all over the project, and much-mentioned in the fierce debate. Yet Rauf himself has disappeared from New York, and left the country for the summer. Apparently he's not even talking to the New York Times — which, in a long piece Wednesday included what in recent weeks has become a refrain: "Imam Feisal is in Malaysia and could not be reached for comment."