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...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...
...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...
...Hamas have arisen to rain terror in Israel, so have splinter groups of the anti-abortion movement formed to perpetrate violence in our own country. With pamphlets entitled "The Army of God" circulating among these people, their rhetoric is only a translation of what Islamic Jihad, another violent fundamentalist group, might publish...
Nevertheless, these facts should not abate our fears of the fundamentalist movement. These predominantly middle-class Americans do have enough money on their own to buy guns, bombs and whatever other destructive means might suit their purpose...
...terrorists' first concerns was to see that all the women, including the stewardesses, were veiled in the fundamentalist Islamic fashion: those who had no scarves were given cabin blankets. The men recited verses from the Koran and tried to reassure their Algerian compatriots, but, in the words of one passenger, "terrorized" non-Algerians. "They had a kind of art in their terror," an elderly Algerian man told the TF1 television network after the rescue. "Twenty minutes of relaxation and 20 minutes of torture. You never knew what was next...