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...accustomed to terrorism, and has learned how to handle it. This doesn't seem to be the case in the U.S. As one of the most influential countries in the world and a global player in international politics, America is not only vulnerable, but a first-class target for extremist forces. Before the bomb attacks on the World Trade Center and Oklahoma City, the U.S. had been spared. I deeply hope the latest tragic episodes will not be a turning point to bringing more terror. THOMAS LEIB Bayreuth, Germany...
Beneath the energy and drama of his extremist life, though, discomfort began to gnaw at Leyden. For starters he was finding his social life to be cloyingly ingrown. "We usually stayed home to avoid contact with other races," Leyden explains. And as discontent seeped in, so did conflict. Leyden's brother is a policeman, and skinhead jokes about killing cops started to seem less than funny. His mother, who had polio as a child, has a slight limp, while Leyden's closest friends were busy calling disabled people "surplus whites...
Ironically, diplomatic intervention in both countries in the early 1990s triggered the bloodiest massacres to date. A U.N.-backed campaign to secure power sharing for Rwanda's Tutsi minority provoked Hutu extremist politicians to conceive a plan that would rid the country of all Tutsi, even the young. To incite peasants into murdering their neighbors, Hutu leaders played on historical fears of a return to Tutsi hegemony and capitalized on a uniquely hierarchical social structure, in which peasants obey their chiefs however chilling the command. Competition for land in what has traditionally been Africa's most densely populated region further...
Another possibility is an extremist Saudi organization calling itself the Islamic Movement for Change. The group has already claimed responsibility for two attacks against Americans in Saudi Arabia. The first, in Riyadh in 1995, killed five Americans. The second, in Dhahran last month, took the lives of 19 U.S. servicemen. Clinton promised that those responsible would be punished. Last week a person claiming to represent the group faxed a note to a Saudi newspaper just hours before the TWA explosion promising to "respond in an extreme way" to the "threats made by the stupid American President." Officials, however, were downplaying...
...knows little about the extremist movements in the closed Saudi kingdom, but it is certain that they have been gaining strength in the years since the Gulf War. The most religious Saudis resented the presence of 541,000 American troops on and near their holy soil. Saudis also asked themselves why they had spent billions on planes and tanks if they had to ask the U.S. to defend them anyway. Many opponents of the regime appear to be drawn from the thousands of devout volunteers who received training and fought in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Others are conservatives who favor...