Word: antiterrorist
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...centuries seen as its backyard, has provoked unease among many within the rank and file of the Russian military and government. "There exists a two-tier attitude toward the U.S. presence," says Alexei Malashenko, scholar-in-residence at the Carnegie Moscow Center. "Explicitly, Russian leaders quite sincerely welcome the antiterrorist operation in the area. Implicitly, they fear that the U.S. has come there to stay...
...cards gives would-be terrorists an enviable freedom of movement. The "lack of controls inside Britain . . . means people plotting terror will continue to regard the U.K. as a haven," Jacquard says. "People come and go as they please, to and from [terrorist] training camps or on missions." A French antiterrorist official is even more accusatory: "In the last half-decade, virtually all Islamist extremists from Europe have shared the same itinerary: radicalization in London mosques and exit from Britain to Afghan camps...
...officials in Europe, who immediately placed Beghal?s operatives under surveillance. Although French investigators say the planned strikes were still months away, the Sept. 11 U.S. attacks prompted Belgian and Dutch police to move immediately, just in case European timetables had been advanced. That, complained France?s top antiterrorist investigator Jean-Louis Brugière, not only halted monitoring to identify other members of the cabal, but also risked provoking the flight of network members in France and Spain. As it turned out, police raids in France interrupted terror suspects in the process of trashing computer equipment and mobile phone...
...uprooting of the Beghal structure is a small victory against terrorism, but the international cooperation that produced it still has a long way to go. The decentralized justice systems of countries like Germany and Italy, for example, make coordinating domestic antiterrorist operations difficult. Nations like the Netherlands and Denmark have been slow to identify the terrorist threat in the absence of attacks on their territory. "If you have even a small population of motivated radicals, there?s a threat," the French official says. "If you?ve got a U.S. embassy, you house a target. If you have innocent people...
...weakest link, several French antiterrorist sources concur, is the protection that British civil liberties provide extremist movements. In addition to the often chilling rhetoric voiced by U.K.-based fundamentalists, their religious operations are cited by the French as instrumental in the radicalization process of many Continental recruits - including Zacarias Moussaoui, a French national now held in the U.S. as a suspect in attacks there. Like Moussaoui, many Muslims are radicalized in the fundamentalist mosques of Baker Street and Finsbury Park. And, like Moussaoui, so many volunteers to the bin Laden cause use the British capital as a base between visits...