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...world waited this week for news of another gruesome terrorist execution of an American hostage, and it finally came on Friday, posted on extremist web sites and reported on Arab TV. This time, however, the bad news came not from Iraq, but from Saudi Arabia. Lockheed-Martin engineer Paul Johnson, 49, of New Jersey, was kidnapped in Riyadh, last Saturday, and an al-Qaeda aligned web site on Tuesday posted video footage of him in captivity with a warning that he would be executed within 72 hours unless a list of named Qaeda suspects currently in Saudi custody were released...
...BIZIMUNGU, 54, Rwanda's first President after the 1994 genocide; to 15 years in jail for diverting public funds, inciting civil disobedience and associating with criminals; in Kigali, Rwanda. Bizimungu, a member of Rwanda's majority Hutu ethnic group, came to power with the Tutsi rebels who ended the extremist Hutu-led killing of an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. He quit the presidency in 2000, and was arrested after forming a political party. Defenders allege his conviction is politically motivated...
...point to the sweeping government crackdown over the past year, in which security forces have broken up cells, arrested and killed terrorists and thwarted major attacks. Yet despite well-publicized moves to curb radicals in Saudi schools, mosques and charities, the government remains reluctant to fight a war against extremist ideas. The regime continues to allow Saudi imams to rail against Crusaders and Jews in much the same manner that al-Qaeda does. When the country's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Abdullah, blamed the Yanbu outrage on Zionists, reformers felt he was once again appeasing hard-line opinion. Prince...
Karachi's mosques offer an oasis of shade and tranquility in this sweltering city. But fewer Karachiites are responding to the muezzin's call to prayer these days. The city is experiencing one of its periodic spasms of vengeful warfare between extremist members of Islam's Sunni and Shi'a religious sects. Mosques are a favored target...
...clear rules." The Christian Democrats initially blocked the law because of fears that increased immigration would open the country to terrorists. Schröder finally won agreement by accepting an opposition-backed measure to have all applicants screened by the security services; "preachers of hate" - an apparent reference to extremist Muslim clergy - can be deported even if they don't break the law. "In the future, it will be easier to deport foreigners who took part in training in terror camps or who incite hatred," said Günther Beckstein, Interior Minister of Christian Social Union-ruled Bavaria. That...