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...will have agents listening in at the meetings from time to time. But Khan is right that good intelligence is a stopgap, not a solution. "You can jail people who have already become terrorists, but there's always a new generation. If we can fix the whole environment, one extremist won't have any influence...
...intelligence officials acknowledge that the U.S.'s success in dismantling bin Laden's organization has not lessened the threat of Islamic terrorism. Al-Qaeda has spawned a movement greater than itself. "Al-Qaeda has infected others with its ideology," CIA director George Tenet said recently. "Other extremist groups within the movement it influenced have become the next wave of the terrorist threat." That only makes them harder to find and stop. Even in hindsight, there was no electronic chatter, no rumor, nothing from interrogations hinting at an attack before the train bombers struck in Madrid. The amorphous nature...
...property prices have doubled in Najaf as guesthouses and hotels open to accommodate the travelers. Not surprisingly, some Iraqis are suspicious of the unrestricted flow from a country that was at war with Iraq for eight years in the 1980s. They believe that Iran controls Iraq's new extremist Shi'ite parties, and there are fears that Iranian intelligence officers have infiltrated southern Iraq. "Iran has been trying to destroy our country since before the Prophet, and it is still trying to do so today," says Karim Gitan, a businessman in Basra...
...minister still considered ETA the prime suspect. Spanish and French authorities say the Moroccans may be linked to the synchronized suicide bombings that killed 33 people in Casablanca last May. Government sources in Morocco are more emphatic, telling TIME there was evidence that all three had connections to the extremist groups believed to have directed those attacks, Salafia Jihadia and its offshoot cell Assirat al-Moustaqim (Straight Path). These groups, Moroccan sources say, are associated with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. The Casablanca operation loosely resembled the Madrid massacre: there were well-orchestrated blasts in five locations...
...Iran's proxy war with the Taliban demonstrated. U.S. officials have also speculated that Bin Laden's network may be receiving logistic assistance from the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah. And just last month, it was reported that Iran had played host to al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and just about every extremist group imaginable at a conference celebrating the 25th anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini's return from exile. If any of these groups had been involved in a terror campaign against the Shiites of Iraq, the Mullahs in Tehran would have been more inclined to arrest them than to huddle with them...