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...discourses of imams who even today are openly urging the destruction of infidel societies like the U.S. In 1995 Moussaoui made his first visit to Afghan training camps run by bin Laden, visits that continued through 1996. And Moussaoui began recruiting other young Muslims to fight for Islam in Chechnya and Kosovo. Moussaoui finally set down in the U.S. in February using an entry visa obtained in Pakistan...
There are many possible answers, but few feel sufficient. Theologically, some Middle Eastern sheiks justify suicide bombings on the basis of Muslim medieval traditions, although most of their colleagues worldwide disagree. Politically, campaigns against Muslims in Bosnia, Albania, Chechnya and Israel create a nationalist desperation that can draw even secularists to pan-Islamic dreamer-schemers like bin Laden, especially when they can offer a checkbook and organizational savvy. Then there is globalization. When Islam stopped gaining territory in the Middle Ages, its thinkers developed mechanisms for coexisting with a permanent Western other. But to new theorists like bin Laden, globalization...
...educated extremist, who keeps in touch with his brethren in Algeria or Indonesia through the Internet, doesn't employ the fire and brimstone of the village cleric to justify terrorist acts. Instead, he sees the conspiracy against Islam in geopolitical omens: foreign debt, IMF restrictions, wars against Muslims in Chechnya and Bosnia, and the Palestinians versus Israel. But often this cool rhetoric masks a hair-trigger emotionalism, an angry hurt. As one senior Pakistani police counterterrorism expert, Muhammed Shoaib Suddle, remarked: "What drives people to this madness? It has nothing to do with reality but with the perceptions that...
...several deal-sweeteners in an hour-long conversation with President Bush Saturday: The Taliban will be wiped out; Russia will be given higher consideration in world politics; the mammoth Soviet debt to the West will be restructured, or eventually forgotten; and the Bush administration will not nudge Putin on Chechnya...
...likely the Russian leader will get full satisfaction on Chechnya: the Bush administration and other Western governments may look the other way, but public bodies such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International are unlikely to be bound by their governments' commitments...