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...Rashid Trust, a Muslim charity operating out of Karachi, provides financial support to jailed Islamic militants and families of those killed fighting in Afghanistan and Chechnya. Two weeks ago, an article in its newspaper, Dha'rb-i-M'umin, urged a holy war against Americans and Israelis. A charity spokesman says the newspaper is separate from the charity...
...National Liberation Army formally ceased to exist. The announcement came as nato declared its arms collecting mission to Macedonia a success, with 3,875 weapons handed in to nato troops. Ethnic Macedonian politicians greeted Ahmeti's announcement with some skepticism, believing that many weapons remain in rebel hands. CHECHNYA Talks About Talks In response to a proposal from Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chechens and Russians started talks to end the two-year war in the breakaway republic. Moscow has demanded that the rebels disarm before substantive negotiations begin...
...crew of a nearby Armenian Airlines plane reported seeing an explosion aboard the doomed plane, before it spun down into the sea. And Russian and Ukrainian media have been reporting for some time that ethnic Tatar villages in the Crimea had been giving shelter to rebel fighters from Chechnya, and that some Tatar Islamists had even volunteered to fight in Chechnya. Russia's President Vladimir Putin immediately expressed suspicions of terrorism...
...these expressions of support and any that follow come with a price tag. A top-level Saudi delegation to Washington last week stressed the need to address the grievances of the Palestinians. Russia will not expect to hear a lot of moaning from Americans about its behavior in Chechnya. Pakistan will expect some economic relief for its battered economy. (And Pakistan will get it; sources tell TIME that Japan has already offered cash and loan guarantees to Islamabad.) George Bush's war will be one of strange bedfellows...
...until the NATO bombings in 1995--the ethnic cleansing by Christian Serbs of Bosnian Muslims and the later killings by Serbs of ethnic Albanian Muslims in Kosovo. Another grievance is the fact that the U.S. has done little to stop Russia's savage war against separatist Muslims in Chechnya because it considers the conflict an internal matter for Moscow. To Americans, all these matters are proof that it is a messy world out there. To many Muslims, it looks like a conspiracy against their fellow believers...