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...including the banning of interest charges. Many Sudanese opposed the laws, particularly Christians and animists in the south who are still fighting government troops. Early this year Nimeiri ordered the execution of one rival, Mahmoud Taha, 76. But among the few who supported Islamization were members of the Muslim Brotherhood, a militant fundamentalist sect banned in many parts of the Arab world. Last week Nimeiri, fearing the Brotherhood's growing power, unexpectedly cracked down on the group, jailing about 150 of its members, including its leader, Hassan al Turabi, 53, who was also stripped of his post as Nimeiri...
...Puget Sound last Dec. 7. A companion of Mathews, Gary Lee Yarbrough, 29, is a suspect in the murder last June 18 of Alan Berg, an outspoken Jewish radio talk-show host in Denver. Authorities say that members of The Order, which is also known as the Silent Brotherhood and the White American Bastion, were also involved in counterfeiting. Says Montana FBI Agent Toby Harding: "These are dangerous, violent people." Declares Idaho Undersheriff Larry Broadbent: "They actually believed that a revolution was possible...
Both men were managers for Brink's Inc., the armored car service, and both, authorities believe, were members of a secret, neo-Nazi organization called the Brotherhood of Silence. Last week Charles Ostrout, 51, and Ronald Allen King, 45, were arrested by FBI agents in California and charged with conspiring to rob Brink's main storage vault in San Francisco. Ostrout was also charged with the sensational $3.6 million heist last July of a Brink's truck in Northern California. The arrests culminated an investigation that included the arrest in late November of Gary Lee Yarborough, allegedly a Brotherhood leader...
According to authorities, the Brotherhood of Silence preaches the violent overthrow of the Government and has links to other white-supremacist organizations. In addition to the two men arrested last week, five others are in jail awaiting trial and one was killed in a shootout with police, prompting U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello to say that the Brotherhood "seems to have been successfully neutered at this time." Yet two others are believed to be at large, and only a fraction of the money stolen has been recovered...
Frustration is leading some growers to adopt militant new tactics. About 170 farmers in Iowa agreed two weeks ago to join forces with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. In this unusual arrangement, the Teamsters will lobby state and federal officials for a moratorium on farm foreclosures and will provide legal aid to fight bankruptcies; meanwhile, the farmers will help push for the repeal of Iowa's right-to-work law. In Washington, Iowa, more than 150 friends and supporters of Roger Escher, 38, took a different tack. They stood silent last month and refused to bid in the auctioning...