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TIME: WHAT MADE YOU DECIDE TO WRITE A BOOK ABOUT AN 18- YEAR-OLD ISLAMIC EXTREMIST...
...that other important factors were also at work. Foremost among them was the collapse of the Soviet empire, which brought down Gaddafi's once-powerful friends in capitals like Moscow, Prague and Bucharest. Another important factor was the rise of Islamic fundamentalists in the Middle East, which resulted in extremist attacks in Libya and against Gaddafi personally...
...Unwelcome Home Returning to Jordan in 1993, al-Zarqawi helps set up an extremist Islamic group but is jailed for possession of explosives. In prison, he memorizes the Koran and immerses himself in an extremist brand of Islam known as Salafism...
...ZARQAWI IS NO RELIGIOUS SCHOLAR. A high school dropout, he memorized the Koran while in prison and acquired his religious ideas from extremist preachers and thinkers in Afghanistan and Jordan. To devout Muslims, emulation of the Prophet is considered desirable, and most believers concentrate on Muhammad's well-documented attributes, like frugality, modesty, charity and respect for elders. But al-Zarqawi, like others who subscribe to extremist schools of Islam, takes emulation literally. Among the examples Bakr cites is al-Zarqawi's tendency, modeled on the Prophet's, to "do everything from right to left: he puts on his right...
...even to the leader of the opposition, Sheikh Hasina. As for the rise of the Islamic insurgency, how can the Prime Minister state that she didn't know about it until the Aug. 17, 2005, bombings, when there had been news reports about Bangla Bhai [the founder of two extremist groups] and his alleged co-conspirator, Sheikh Abdur Rahman, months before? The fight against the insurgency is simply a stage-managed drama by the ruling party to gain ground in the upcoming election. Umran Chowdhury Dhaka...