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East, West Radicals Find Unsettling Bond
Los Angeles Times - January 3, 2003, Jeffrey Fleishman
They are unlikely allies, but right-wing extremists and Islamic militants share a hatred for Israel and the United States that has drawn the attention of German authorities.
A Cocktail of Grievances in Paradise ;Tourism, US swagger and a new Islam have transformed Mombasa
The Guardian - Friday November 29, 2002, Fuad Nahdi
Yesterday's attacks in Kenya were shocking, but hardly surprising. Like Bali in Indonesia, Mombasa was once an idyllic tropical island. Now it is simmering with anger, consumed by hatred and sucked into the global mayhem that is "the war against terror".
FBI Probes Possible Saudi, 9/11 Money Ties
CNN - November 26, 2002,
The FBI is investigating whether the Saudi Arabian government funneled money to associates of two of the September 11 hijackers, a senior White House official told CNN Saturday
Saudis Face U.S. Demand on Terror;National Security Council seeks to curb financiers
The Washington Post - November 26, 2002, Douglas Farah
A National Security Council task force is recommending an action plan to President Bush that is designed to force Saudi Arabia to crack down on terrorist financiers within 90 days or face unilateral U.S. action
Report Rips Saudi Laxity on Funds;Policy group says U.S. must move on al Qaeda financing
The Washington Post - October 17, 2002, Douglas Farah
The Bush administration’s efforts to cut off funds for international terrorism are destined to fail until it confronts Saudi Arabia, whose leaders have tolerated some of its wealthy citizens raising millions of dollars a year for al Qaeda, according to a new report from an influential foreign policy organization.
To Fight Terror, Fix Saudi Schools
The Christian Science Monitor - Tuesday, October 15, 2002, Jim Davis and Doug Bereuter
In Saudi schools, Islamic religious education is compulsory, accounting for 30 to 40 percent of the school day at some grade levels. Over the past two decades, the government of Saudi Arabia has tolerated elements within its education system that promote and encourage extremism.
Muslim Conference Overshadowed by Arrest;"Salafis" fear association with suspected terrorist
The Times (London) - September 2, 2002, Oliver Wright
The arrest of suspected terrorist Kerim Chatty in Sweden cast a pall over the sixth Salafi National Islamic Conference in England.
Kadyrov Proposes to Ban Wahhabi Fundamentalism in Russia
- August 28, 2002,
Akhmad Kadyrov, the Kremlin-appointed head of Chechnya, seems to be supporting the federal government's idea of a referendum on a constitution for Chechnya; but insists on Chechnya's interior ministry being reformed before any further action is taken.
Extremists in a Moderate Land
Washington Post - Sunday, August 11, 2002, Carole O'Leary
"The Wahabis," Mullah Ahmed Suwayri told me vehemently, "are stealing our youth and brainwashing them."
Expat Brits live in fear as Saudis turn on the West
The Observer - Guardian Unlimited - Sunday, July 28, 2002, Paul Harris, Nick Pelham and Martin Bright
Saudi Arabia's community of foreigners is trapped between bombings by Islamic terrorists, police torture and palace feuding
Russia: Saudi-Funded Wahhabite Group Seizes Mosque
Moscow Rossiyskaya Gazeta - Thursday, July 25, 2002, Gennadiy Lyulkin
[FBIS Translated Text] Krasnoufimsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast - "Here's the score, respected mullah. Repay R5 million to us. You took out a loan when you bought the car, just think. You'll be out in the snow. You'll be left without a home, without anything. Always keep this sum to hand, so you can hand over the money at our first demand. Death to enemies of the people!"
London imam faces FBI inquiry over al-Qa'eda training camp
Daily Telegraph (London) - Thursday, July 25, 2002, Sean O'Neill
Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Masri, the radical London imam, is at the centre of an FBI investigation into an alleged plot to recruit young American Muslims into an al-Qa'eda cell in the United States.
Dutch Call for Probe of Muslims Amid a Report on Radical Imams
Wall Street Journal - Monday, July 08, 2002, Dan Bilefsky
Dutch parliamentarians called for a wide-ranging investigation of Islam in the Netherlands after Muslim clerics were secretly tape-recorded praising suicide bombers and calling for the "destruction of the enemies of Islam."
Russia's Scattered Tactical Arms a Temptation for Terrorists
Boston Globe - Tuesday, June 18, 2002, David Filipov
MOSCOW - The US-Russian arms treaty signed in Moscow last month did nothing to eliminate the greatest fear in an age of terror: that one of Russia's thousands of tactical nuclear devices left over from the Cold War could fall into the wrong hands.
Belgium is 'launch pad for terrorists'
The Daily Telegraph - Tuesday, June 04, 2002, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Islamic terrorists have turned Belgium into a recruiting base and the launch pad for future attacks across Europe, according to a leaked official dossier.
How in a Little British Town Jihad Found Young Converts
New York Times - Wednesday, April 24, 2002, Amy Waldman
IPTON, England — The young men lived within a few blocks of one another in a Muslim pocket in this small town near Birmingham. They were out of school and often on the streets, in the occasional fight, sometime smokers of marijuana. They were, in the slang of the British Midlands, "dossers" — slackers, layabouts.
Call to Jihad from an Ontario strip mall;Newsmagazine propagates Islamic revolution
National Post - Saturday, April 06, 2002, Stewart Bell
MARKHAM, Ont. - The call to Islamic revolution can be heard in the dank caves of Afghanistan and the speeches of Iran's bearded mullahs. But one of its most strident voices emanates not from the Arab world, but from an industrial mall in the suburbs north of Toronto.
State: Saudis "Encouraging Terrorism"
FORWARD - Friday, March 22, 2002, Staff Writer
WASHINGTON - The State Department charged Saudi Arabia with "encouraging terrorism" by sending hundreds of millions of dollars in support for the families of "martyrs" since the start of the Intifada.
Al-Qaeda Plot Revealed in Sarajevo
Associated Press - Friday, March 23, 2001, Alexander S. Dragicevic
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Al-Qaeda terrorists planned a devastating attack on Americans in Sarajevo after meeting in Bulgaria to identify European targets, a high-ranking Bosnian official said Saturday.
East, West Radicals Find Unsettling Bond
Los Angeles Times - January 3, 2003, Jeffrey Fleishman
They are unlikely allies, but right-wing extremists and Islamic militants share a hatred for Israel and the United States that has drawn the attention of German authorities.
A Cocktail of Grievances in Paradise ;Tourism, US swagger and a new Islam have transformed Mombasa
The Guardian - Friday November 29, 2002, Fuad Nahdi
Yesterday's attacks in Kenya were shocking, but hardly surprising. Like Bali in Indonesia, Mombasa was once an idyllic tropical island. Now it is simmering with anger, consumed by hatred and sucked into the global mayhem that is "the war against terror".
FBI Probes Possible Saudi, 9/11 Money Ties
CNN - November 26, 2002,
The FBI is investigating whether the Saudi Arabian government funneled money to associates of two of the September 11 hijackers, a senior White House official told CNN Saturday
Saudis Face U.S. Demand on Terror;National Security Council seeks to curb financiers
The Washington Post - November 26, 2002, Douglas Farah
A National Security Council task force is recommending an action plan to President Bush that is designed to force Saudi Arabia to crack down on terrorist financiers within 90 days or face unilateral U.S. action
Report Rips Saudi Laxity on Funds;Policy group says U.S. must move on al Qaeda financing
The Washington Post - October 17, 2002, Douglas Farah
The Bush administration’s efforts to cut off funds for international terrorism are destined to fail until it confronts Saudi Arabia, whose leaders have tolerated some of its wealthy citizens raising millions of dollars a year for al Qaeda, according to a new report from an influential foreign policy organization.
To Fight Terror, Fix Saudi Schools
The Christian Science Monitor - Tuesday, October 15, 2002, Jim Davis and Doug Bereuter
In Saudi schools, Islamic religious education is compulsory, accounting for 30 to 40 percent of the school day at some grade levels. Over the past two decades, the government of Saudi Arabia has tolerated elements within its education system that promote and encourage extremism.
Muslim Conference Overshadowed by Arrest;"Salafis" fear association with suspected terrorist
The Times (London) - September 2, 2002, Oliver Wright
The arrest of suspected terrorist Kerim Chatty in Sweden cast a pall over the sixth Salafi National Islamic Conference in England.
Kadyrov Proposes to Ban Wahhabi Fundamentalism in Russia
- August 28, 2002,
Akhmad Kadyrov, the Kremlin-appointed head of Chechnya, seems to be supporting the federal government's idea of a referendum on a constitution for Chechnya; but insists on Chechnya's interior ministry being reformed before any further action is taken.
Extremists in a Moderate Land
Washington Post - Sunday, August 11, 2002, Carole O'Leary
"The Wahabis," Mullah Ahmed Suwayri told me vehemently, "are stealing our youth and brainwashing them."
Expat Brits live in fear as Saudis turn on the West
The Observer - Guardian Unlimited - Sunday, July 28, 2002, Paul Harris, Nick Pelham and Martin Bright
Saudi Arabia's community of foreigners is trapped between bombings by Islamic terrorists, police torture and palace feuding
Russia: Saudi-Funded Wahhabite Group Seizes Mosque
Moscow Rossiyskaya Gazeta - Thursday, July 25, 2002, Gennadiy Lyulkin
[FBIS Translated Text] Krasnoufimsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast - "Here's the score, respected mullah. Repay R5 million to us. You took out a loan when you bought the car, just think. You'll be out in the snow. You'll be left without a home, without anything. Always keep this sum to hand, so you can hand over the money at our first demand. Death to enemies of the people!"
London imam faces FBI inquiry over al-Qa'eda training camp
Daily Telegraph (London) - Thursday, July 25, 2002, Sean O'Neill
Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Masri, the radical London imam, is at the centre of an FBI investigation into an alleged plot to recruit young American Muslims into an al-Qa'eda cell in the United States.
Dutch Call for Probe of Muslims Amid a Report on Radical Imams
Wall Street Journal - Monday, July 08, 2002, Dan Bilefsky
Dutch parliamentarians called for a wide-ranging investigation of Islam in the Netherlands after Muslim clerics were secretly tape-recorded praising suicide bombers and calling for the "destruction of the enemies of Islam."
Russia's Scattered Tactical Arms a Temptation for Terrorists
Boston Globe - Tuesday, June 18, 2002, David Filipov
MOSCOW - The US-Russian arms treaty signed in Moscow last month did nothing to eliminate the greatest fear in an age of terror: that one of Russia's thousands of tactical nuclear devices left over from the Cold War could fall into the wrong hands.
Belgium is 'launch pad for terrorists'
The Daily Telegraph - Tuesday, June 04, 2002, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Islamic terrorists have turned Belgium into a recruiting base and the launch pad for future attacks across Europe, according to a leaked official dossier.
How in a Little British Town Jihad Found Young Converts
New York Times - Wednesday, April 24, 2002, Amy Waldman
IPTON, England — The young men lived within a few blocks of one another in a Muslim pocket in this small town near Birmingham. They were out of school and often on the streets, in the occasional fight, sometime smokers of marijuana. They were, in the slang of the British Midlands, "dossers" — slackers, layabouts.
Call to Jihad from an Ontario strip mall;Newsmagazine propagates Islamic revolution
National Post - Saturday, April 06, 2002, Stewart Bell
MARKHAM, Ont. - The call to Islamic revolution can be heard in the dank caves of Afghanistan and the speeches of Iran's bearded mullahs. But one of its most strident voices emanates not from the Arab world, but from an industrial mall in the suburbs north of Toronto.
State: Saudis "Encouraging Terrorism"
FORWARD - Friday, March 22, 2002, Staff Writer
WASHINGTON - The State Department charged Saudi Arabia with "encouraging terrorism" by sending hundreds of millions of dollars in support for the families of "martyrs" since the start of the Intifada.
Al-Qaeda Plot Revealed in Sarajevo
Associated Press - Friday, March 23, 2001, Alexander S. Dragicevic
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Al-Qaeda terrorists planned a devastating attack on Americans in Sarajevo after meeting in Bulgaria to identify European targets, a high-ranking Bosnian official said Saturday.
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