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BELGIUM [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS][FOILED TERRORIST ATTACK] SWITZERLAND [FINANCIAL BACKING] ITALY [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS][FOILED TERRORIST ATTACK] ALBANIA [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] [FOILED TERRORIST ATTACK] TUNISIA MAURITANIA [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] ALGERIA CZECH REPUBLIC KOSOVO LIBYA LEBANON [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] JORDAN [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] KUWAIT [FINANCIAL BACKING] QATAR U.A.E. [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] [FINANCIAL BACKING] ERITREA ETHIOPIA [FINANCIAL BACKING] [TERRORIST ATTACK] UGANDA [TERRORIST ATTACK] [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] KENYA [TERRORIST ATTACK][ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] TANZANIA [TERRORIST ATTACK] CHECHNYA, RUSSIA AZERBAIJAN [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] UZBEKISTAN KYRGYZSTAN TAJIKISTAN BANGLADESH MALAYSIA [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS...
BRITAIN BELGIUM FRANCE GERMANY ITALY BOSNIA ALBANIA BULGARIA MOROCCO TUNISIA TURKEY SYRIA JORDAN SAUDI ARABIA KUWAIT ETHIOPIA TANZANIA KENYA SOMALIA ERITREA UGANDA RUSSIA UZBEKISTAN BANGLADESH
There are many possible answers, but few feel sufficient. Theologically, some Middle Eastern sheiks justify suicide bombings on the basis of Muslim medieval traditions, although most of their colleagues worldwide disagree. Politically, campaigns against Muslims in Bosnia, Albania, Chechnya and Israel create a nationalist desperation that can draw even secularists to pan-Islamic dreamer-schemers like bin Laden, especially when they can offer a checkbook and organizational savvy. Then there is globalization. When Islam stopped gaining territory in the Middle Ages, its thinkers developed mechanisms for coexisting with a permanent Western other. But to new theorists like bin Laden, globalization...
...everything they wanted. But it will be interesting to see whether the National Liberation Army, or armed Albanian groups, disappear as the process goes forward. Because if they stick around and keep causing trouble, it will be clear that their agenda was related more to a "Greater Albania" project than to constitutional reform...
...Many of the rank-and-file guerrillas and regional commanders openly express their enthusiasm for a "Greater Albania" - the mirror image of Slobodan Milosevic's "Greater Serbia" campaign, which spawned separatist military campaigns among the Serb minorities of Serbia's neighboring states. But their leaders insist they got most of what they wanted out of the Skopje political agreement, and the time has come to put down their weapons. And those leaders have plenty of reasons to crow about the outcome. Three months ago, NATO leaders were still denouncing the NLA as "terrorists" and "murderers in the hills"; now fresh...