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...just too dangerous. But that did not keep the war from coming to him. He was in Karachi, reporting on the militant mentors of accused shoe bomber Richard Reid, on Jan. 23, when he went to a restaurant in hopes of meeting a prominent but reclusive Muslim cleric. It was typical of Pearl's approach: take the risk, listen to all sides, try to figure out how they think. His wife Mariane, a free-lance journalist, had planned to go with him but, in her sixth month of pregnancy, wasn't feeling well that day. So she stayed home...
Finsbury Park is at the heart of the extremist Islamic culture that French authorities call "Londonistan." So are the prayer meetings held by Abu Qatada, a fiery Palestinian cleric originally from Jordan. Britain's Muslims aren't necessarily more radicalized than those in communities elsewhere in Europe, but extremists among them may have greater liberty to operate. The British have no system of national identity cards. And the police have traditionally adopted a policy of "watchful tolerance" of extremists, aimed at keeping them aboveground. From afar, that policy can look lax. Watchful tolerance makes sense only if someone is actually...
...Finsbury Park is at the heart of the extremist Islamic culture that French authorities call "Londonistan." So are the prayer meetings held by Abu Qatada, a fiery Palestinian cleric originally from Jordan. Britain's Muslims aren't necessarily more radicalized than those in communities elsewhere in Europe, but extremists among them may have greater liberty to operate. The British have no system of national identity cards. And the police have traditionally adopted a policy of "watchful tolerance" of extremists, aimed at keeping them aboveground. From afar, that policy can look lax. Watchful tolerance makes sense only if someone is actually...
...Zadran, tried to lay claim to the Paktia town. Residents supported local Pashtun leader Haji Saifullah. British Prime Minister Tony Blair told Karzai he could not expand his commitment beyond the U.K.?s promised 5,000 troops. PAKISTAN Shadowy World Police arrested two former Taliban ministers and a Muslim cleric, Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani, who was thought to be linked to the abduction of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. A little-known group called the National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty demanded $2 million and the release of Pakistan?s former Taliban ambassador in exchange for Pearl...
...Brixton may not have been a willing terrorist haven after all. Finsbury Park has long been known for the radical, anti-American stance of its one-eyed, steel-clawed cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, but the Brixton Mosque adherents say that in their strict orthodox teaching, terrorism and suicide bombing are condemned to the point that they earn hostility from extremist factions. And according to Magnus Ranstorp, deputy director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at Scotland's St. Andrews University, the mosques themselves are not the problem anyway. The real threat is from...