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...pulled out of Lebanon. The new Palestinian intifadeh, now 15 months old, offered Iran a fresh opportunity to export extremism. First, Iran's proxy Hizballah set up its own infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza. Then, early last year, Iran organized closer cooperation between Hizballah and the Palestinian extremist group Hamas. Recently, senior Palestinian sources tell TIME, Hizballah put officials from Arafat's Authority on Iran's payroll. Both Israeli and Palestinian officials say Iran wants to broaden the intifadeh to include as many Palestinian groups as possible in order to sink the peace process with Israel once...
...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 the al-Qaeda talent spotters, trusted men of battle-hardened experience...
...Pakistan's General Pervez Musharraf compared with the war he's declared at home. The arrest of more than 1,500 Islamist militants since Saturday and the outlawing of five of their key organizations underlines the seriousness of Musharraf's pledge to rein in what he called an extremist "state-within-a-state." But to really do this requires riding a tiger twenty years in the making...
...fact, since Musharraf took over the country in a bloodless coup in 1999, he has wanted to crack down on the country's extremist religious groups, which often feed people into militant organizations, including those fighting for Kashmir. It's not a task for the fainthearted. Three weeks ago, the brother of Pakistan Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider was gunned down in the port city of Karachi because, police believe, Haider was outspoken against fanatical religious groups...
...pulled out of Lebanon. The new Palestinian intifadeh, now 15 months old, offered Iran a fresh opportunity to export extremism. First, Iran's proxy Hizballah set up its own infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza. Then, early last year, Iran organized closer cooperation between Hizballah and the Palestinian extremist group Hamas. Recently, senior Palestinian sources tell Time, Hizballah put officials from Arafat's Authority on Iran's payroll. Both Israeli and Palestinian officials say Iran wants to broaden the intifadeh to include as many Palestinian groups as possible in order to sink the peace process with Israel once...