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...export of suicide bombers from Europe, mainly to Iraq. Groups like Ansar al-Islam have reportedly stepped up recruitment on the Continent. "There has been a call from Ansar for kamikazes from Europe," says an Italian investigator. Authorities say they intercepted a satellite-phone conversation in which Mullah Fouad, a 32-year-old Iraqi, speaking from Syria, told a Hamburg operative: "I need Japanese guys here," presum- ably a reference to kamikaze-style bombers. The Italians issued an arrest warrant for the man they believe to be that operative, an Algerian called Abderrazak Mahdjoub, who was arrested by German police...
...text for this myth is the famous Le Monde editorial of Sept. 12, 2001, titled "We Are All Americans." But as Johns Hopkins professor Fouad Ajami points out, not only did that very editorial speak of America's paying for its cynicism, but also, within months, that same Le Monde publisher was back with a small book ("All Americans? The World After September 11, 2001"--note the question mark) filled with the usual belligerence toward and disapproval of America...
Cairo University freshman Ayman Fouad has been glued to al-Jazeera, the Qatari satellite channel, for much of the past three weeks. In the beginning, he cheered on Iraqi fighters as they battled U.S. and British forces. Suddenly, he found himself watching images of American troops riding tanks into Baghdad, helping Iraqis pull down a statue of Saddam Hussein. "I couldn't believe my eyes," Fouad says. But then, he says, he realized what was really happening. "The Americans paid these people," he asserts. "Saddam is tricking the Americans. He will fight them until he kicks them...
...discuss how might a postwar Iraq take shape and what are the prospects for democracy in the region." Cheney, friends say, has gradually abandoned his former skepticism about the potential for democracy in the Middle East. Among those who have influenced him: Bernard Lewis, a Princeton historian, and Fouad Ajami, a former colleague of Wolfowitz's at Johns Hopkins. Both men passionately believe that the lack of democracy and pluralism are central to the chronic instability of the Middle East and that any serious policy there must aspire to do more than leave existing autocracies in power...
...time in the bosom of the Arab world. It was temporarily housed in Afghanistan, but it was not Afghan. It has non-Arab Islamic adherents, but it is not pan-Islamic. It does not speak for all Arabs, but it does speak to Arab frustrations, failures and fantasies, what Fouad Ajami has called "the dream palace of the Arabs...