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...Brixton may not have been a willing terrorist haven after all. Finsbury Park has long been known for the radical, anti-American stance of its one-eyed, steel-clawed cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, but the Brixton Mosque adherents say that in their strict orthodox teaching, terrorism and suicide bombing are condemned to the point that they earn hostility from extremist factions. And according to Magnus Ranstorp, deputy director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at Scotland's St. Andrews University, the mosques themselves are not the problem anyway. The real threat is from...
...beginning now not because our propaganda is good. Not because al-Jazeera changed its anti-American tune. Not because a wave of remorse spontaneously erupted in places like Saudi Arabia. But because, with our B-52s, our special forces, our smart bombs, our daisy cutters--our power and our will--we scattered the enemy...
...against him has become personalized. Bin Laden was a relative nobody in the Islamic world in the summer of 1998 when his men bombed two U.S. embassies in East Africa. And it wasn't necessarily the attacks themselves that made him the international center of gravity for Islamist anti-American rage - it was the U.S. response, which was to name Osama bin Laden as the most dangerous man in the world and fire off a slew of cruise missiles onto two continents in a vain, almost panicky attempt to eliminate him and destroy his assets. Radical Islamists everywhere who might...
...week's video he emphasizes that even in his core constituency, people back the stronger horse. The ability of al-Qaeda to survive may now depend substantially on perceptions among the Islamists of the relative strengths of bin Laden and his enemies. The Afghan campaign has not diminished the anti-American anger on which bin Laden built his movement - Arab media is dominated not by stories of al-Qaeda's defeat, but by reports of Palestinians under attack by Israel and of U.S. support for Ariel Sharon; moderate Arab regimes are pleading with Washington to abandon talk...
...Activists scoff at such creepy comparisons, but some admit they are feeling pressured to dial it down. "The movement has been haunted by the need to have a very measured discourse for fear of being stigmatized as anti-American," complains Mathieu Triclot of Aaarg!, a collective of young French militants. For most activists, however, that may not be such a bad thing. "We were wanting to participate in events where violence was becoming a problem," says Ian Wilmore of Britain's Friends of the Earth. "Now violence is becoming more unacceptable. It strengthens [our] hand...