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...awaiting trial in a U.S. jail. But al-Qaeda's talent spotters are certain to have other recruits in place. Last week Scotland Yard's assistant commissioner David Veness warned that the number of British-based Islamic extremists and activists with links to proscribed groups reached three figures. And Hassan Butt, a member of Al-Muhajiroun, warned in a BBC interview from Lahore that British Muslim volunteers in Afghanistan would return to the U.K. to "strike at the heart of the enemy...
These days, Hamas doesn't need to recruit suicide bombers; there are almost too many volunteers. Men embittered by years of misery and humiliation gather at the feet of a new generation of Hamas preachers like the charismatic Sheik Hassan Yussef. His Friday sermons, full of mythic stories of great Islamic battles but also highly critical of Arafat's corrupt regime and its compromises with Israel, urge them toward violent confrontation with the Jews. As Hamas leaders like Yussef tell their adherents, Palestinians may not have tanks or gunships, but they have one thing Israel doesn't: men willing...
...generation of young men has its own battle scars to avenge. A friend named Hassan offers that while Osama Bahar was in prison, Israeli interrogators hung him by his arms from the ceiling, spat in his face and mocked Islam. (Israeli authorities had no comment.) Says Hassan: "He always said he would avenge the mistreatment." In the case of grudges like that, a beard is optional...
...terrorists are heading their way. Somalis tend to gossip too much for foreigners to feel secure, and few Somalis could resist the price on the heads of al-Qaeda leaders. "We would hand them over and claim the money to pay our men," says Mogadishu chief of police Hassan Awaale. "We have enough problems of our own without more [from them]." U.N. officials, Western diplomats and aid workers agree that al-Itihaad training camps of the '90s don't exist anymore and that the group was destroyed as a military force after Ethiopian forces entered Somalia and overran the group...
...extremism. Its diplomats were allegedly involved this year in a plot - dreamed up by an al-Qaeda agent connected to the Cole and East African embassy attacks - to bomb the U.S. embassy in India. But the Sudanese government claims its tolerance for that stuff is over, since Islamic militant Hassan al-Turabi, formerly the guiding light of the National Islamic Front government, fell from favor and was arrested last year...