Word: fundamentalist
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Ahmad is more liberal than most in the fundamentalist group. Female employees at the station wear Islamic head scarves-but not severe black Iranian chadors. Ahmad has also phased out dour Iranian movies in favor of more popular Egyptian and Western fare: last week's schedule featured Under California Stars, a 1948 Roy Rogers western (Trigger is captured by horse thieves) and The Day of the Triffids, a 1963 British sci-fi film about man-eating plants. Not that Lighthouse TV will ever be confused with hbo; scenes enlivened by Hollywood staples like sex and alcohol are deleted, and voice...
...insular, fundamentalist Christian sect that obligates its members to recruit vigorously and preaches that there is no salvation outside of the BCC. Supporters of the group claim the Harvard administration is discriminating against them for their religious beliefs...
...extensive.'' He adds that a lot of money was raised during the anti-Soviet jihad--or holy war-- movement in Afghanistan, and these efforts, which are believed to be still active in Peshawar, have evolved into organizations with quite a bit of money. Money floats freely among wealthy Islamic fundamentalist patrons. ``This guy may have had a private network of backers with dollars,'' says a U.S. intelligence source. For today's terrorists, says Emerson, ``money is not a problem...
...covers--bribing drug couriers on the side for intelligence--have been wounded or killed in gunfights with traffickers. A NOC officer serving in Africa was beaten up and jailed for a month. Another, grabbed by a Hizballah faction in Beirut, managed to talk his way out by convincing his fundamentalist captors that he was a U.S. narcotics agent fighting evil drugs. ``You've got to be your own life-support system,'' says John F. Quinn, who once worked as a NOC officer in Tokyo collecting economic intelligence. ``You're out in the cold. You're alone. You have...
...carry out a high-profile attack during the trial. Police already had put private security forces on alert as the second anniversary of the Feb. 26, 1993 World Trade Center bombing approaches. TIME New York correspondent Adam Cohen said police may be taking the latest threat seriously because "fundamentalist terrorists, in general, are rather obsessive about anniversaries...