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...they could focus on more serious crimes. A few days later, Anderson was forced to resign. The voice for Nevada cops then became Gary Booker, deputy district attorney in charge of the vehicular-crimes unit, until he told members of the press he believed the wild claims of political extremist Lyndon LaRouche that Soros is pro-legalization because he bankrolls drug cartels. When talking to Time at the Elks lodge where he introduced the drug czar, Booker awkwardly tried to explain away his statement: "The word cartel was used, not drug. A cartel is a group of businessmen who control...
...slowest country in Southeast Asia to respond to terrorism post-Sept. 11?Xand Bali showed graphically the need to intensify its vigilance. It seemed at last that Megawati was waking up. After all, the Bali attack gave her a rare opportunity to distance herself from Indonesia's extremist factions and forge an alliance with more moderate Muslims...
...despite occasional setbacks. "Al-Qaeda is not just an organization," says Ranstorp. "It's a movement. We shouldn't gauge its success through a short-term prism." It took a year, but recent attacks suggest that the dispersal of terrorists from Afghanistan back to their home bases reinvigorated local extremist groups--among them Jemaah Islamiah in Indonesia--with an influx of logistical and financial resources. That has Tenet worried. "The threat environment we face," he said last week, "is as bad as it was before Sept. 11. It is serious--they have reconstituted, they are coming after us." Al-Qaeda...
Though the vast majority of Indonesians practice a moderate form of Islam, the country is an attractive haven for Muslim extremists. Monitoring terrorist activity in a swath of territory that spans more than 13,000 islands would test the mettle of any government, let alone a democracy as young and fractious as Indonesia's. Since the start of her tenure last year Megawati has shied away from trying to snuff out the extremist threat, in part to placate religious conservatives like Vice President Hamzah Haz, Megawati's likely opponent in the 2004 presidential race, who has long supported radical groups...
...southern city of Zamboanga. In an unusual display, they were paraded on national TV before President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who said the men were apprehended as they were preparing another attack. She promised tougher steps against terror groups. Police said the men were members of the Islamic extremist group Abu Sayyaf, which wants an Islamic state in the southern Philippines. IVORY COAST Neighborly Interest Burkina Faso demanded a halt to attacks on foreigners, a feature of the five-week long battle between Ivorian government troops and northern rebels. Burkina Faso Foreign Minister Youssouf Ouedraogo said: "We cannot tolerate any longer...