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...Laden's personal security detail. Most are veterans of battles against regimes in their homelands or the mujahedin war against the Soviets in Afghanistan. Primarily led by Egyptian and Saudi revolutionaries, Brigade 055 (the unit began as a Soviet-era Afghan-government outfit) also includes volunteers from Chechnya, Pakistan, Bosnia, China and Uzbekistan...
...roots in Afghanistan, investigators now think that the "Afghan" nature of the group is subtly changing. The war against the Soviets ended in 1991. Increasingly, al-Qaeda's captains in the field are too young ever to have fought in Afghanistan, though some may have joined Islamic brigades in Chechnya-or in Bosnia, as Abu Zubaydah did. Many of the new fighters were born and raised not in the Arab lands but in the Muslim communities of Europe, around which they travel with ease. And there is a growing sense that a number of them are "Takfiris," followers...
...sources tell TIME they are worried that other leaders of both al-Qaeda and the Taliban may have slipped out of the country, or be trying to. Their favored destinations are thought to be Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia. (U.S. officials are also trying to check movements into Somalia, Chechnya and Sudan.) In all three of the likeliest havens, the CIA has been working with local officials to round up the members of extensive al-Qaeda cells, while U.S. diplomats have been pressing their host countries to bolster surveillance at airports and border checkpoints. No U.S. special-forces operations have...
...situation is little better in Russia, where the low-grade war against civilians in Chechnya has continued for several years despite international opposition. Although it is indisputable that some Chechen separatists have resorted to attacks on civilians, the “cleansing” efforts of the Russian military and its refusal to cooperate with United Nations human rights observers have little to do with preventing terrorism. Now even mild condemnations of Russia’s human rights violations may be withheld in exchange for Russia’s partnership in the coalition against Osama bin Laden...
...ethical reasons, Muslims will support the global initiative against terrorism. But there is a growing perception that autocrats of all types will seize the opportunity to prop up their regimes and deal a severe blow to democratic movements. Russian President Vladimir Putin will use it to defend atrocities in Chechnya, Israel to defend its intransigence and Malaysia its detentions without trial...