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...received a dire warning last week from Osama El Baz, national security adviser to Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak. El Baz, on a visit to Washington, warned that Israelis and Palestinians "have proved themselves incapable of moving by themselves towards peace," and that their continued conflict threatened to unleash extremist forces that posed an imminent threat to U.S. allies and interests throughout the region. El Baz's warning found ironic echo in an internal strategic assessment by Israel's army, which was reported last week to have concluded that the current intifada would last for at least the next five...
...takes time to sift through the possibilities (and plenty of spiritual and technological dead ends). Some sites are affiliated with particular sects, some are the ungrounded fantasies of individuals. Others couch extremist rhetoric in reverent tones or disguise hatred as doctrine (the white supremacist Church of the Creator in the U.S., for example...
...Militia, blames the slump on a lack of "Y2Ks or anything like that." The smooth turnover of the clocks on Jan. 1, 2000, was a blow to many conspiracy-minded groups, which had predicted global chaos. "After Y2K," says Potok, "there were a lot of angry letters in the extremist publications saying, 'You've made fools of us--we have a basement full of supplies and nothing to use them for.'" But if the militias are fading, some of their paranoid fervor lives on. Take John Trochmann, who still runs the Militia of Montana. "If they kill McVeigh, they...
...right shoulder, and Whitman gets put on his left as the administration's own environmental underdog, a safely declawed, in-house John McCain. And when Dick Cheney thinks the time is right, bam! - having moved the entire debate 10 paces to the right, Bush strikes a deal between the extremist (Norton) and the moderate (Whitman) and calls it a benevolent compromise...
...election will also gauge extremist sentiment in the country: the ultra-right-wing Republicans are on the ballot. Because of the country's Nazi past and continuing attacks by neo-Nazi skinheads, public support for far-right organizations is closely monitored in Germany. What's more, ballots for the Republicans are generally regarded as protest votes that would normally go to the more centrist cdu. In the 1996 election, the Republicans received 9.1% of the votes in Baden-Württemberg, but the prognosis for this year is just 5%. "I think this year the Republicans will do less well...