 But most of all, perhaps, it was due to the courageous intervention of three Muslim ambassadors, Egypt's Ashraf Ghorbal, Pakistan's Sahabzada Yaqub-Khan and Iran's Ardeshir Zahedi.The leader of the attack was Hamaas Abdul Khaalis, a former national secretary of the Nation of Islam.Khaalis was born Ernest McGhee in Indiana in 1921.