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Poker Night for this gang was a social event—bonding, not winning, was the ultimate goal. According to Ryan Damm ’01, the average put-down was $10 and winners rarely left with more than $40. The games were never overly intense. “I have plenty of vices, but I don’t think gambling ranks up there,” Damm says. “Though I do have vices that accompany gambling: I drink a lot, smoke a lot, eat a lot of fattening foods...It?...
...keep themselves in power, the Taliban has made of Afghanistan a mecca of terrorism, a land whose aura of Islam ascendant lures volunteers from a vast pool of Muslims who want to partake of Afghanistan's great victory. Many are drawn not simply to bin Laden and his gang but also to the idea of Talibanizing the Muslim world. The CIA estimates that of tens of thousands of fighters who have graduated from Afghan terror camps, only 3,000 or so are loyal directly to bin Laden. Yet the ties of like mind and mutual interest between bin Laden...
...keep themselves in power, the Taliban has made of Afghanistan a mecca of terrorism, a land whose aura of Islam ascendant lures volunteers from a vast pool of Muslims who want to partake of Afghanistan's great victory. Many are drawn not simply to bin Laden and his gang but also to the idea of Talibanizing the Muslim world. The CIA estimates that of tens of thousands of fighters who have graduated from Afghan terror camps, only 3,000 or so are loyal directly to bin Laden. Yet the ties of like mind and mutual interest between bin Laden...
...following a failed car bomb attempt in Lille on the eve of a G7 summit there, French cops picked up two ethnic-Arab suspects, one of whom cracked under questioning and revealed the true nature of "gang of Roubaix." The group was in fact a collection of Muslim militants (most of them white French converts) who had been radicalized during visits to Bosnia. Robbery was used to finance arms purchases, and to create false ID documents to facilitate the movement of Islamist terrorists transiting France. The group had recruited men for their "holy war," and had staged attacks when instructed...
...Patient intelligence work revealed that Kamel was both an expert document forger, head of the network of which the Roubaix gang was a part and had also spent time in Afghanistan, where he'd been in contact with Bin Laden. French authorities say there's no way of proving whether Kamel "worked for bin Laden." But, they say, it is clear that in the decentralized, compartmentalized and intersecting root system of Islamic networks, Kamel had been given the responsibility for creating and transporting false ID documents used by militants being assembled in Turkey, Bulgaria, Belgium, France, Bosnia and North America...