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...hours of Ramadan. But authorities say last week's arrests were the culmination of long investigations, not hasty responses to the Istanbul blasts. And some of them were meant to thwart a different threat: the 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...
People like Boykin seem comparable to crazy religious megalomaniacs from Malaysia but are difficult to place in a Western democracy. Boykin's ignorant slurs on Islam have no place in our democracy or in the Bush Administration. JUSTEEN WARD Van Nuys, Calif...
Much attention has been focused on Lieut. General William Boykin's preaching anti-Islamic sermons to evangelical Christian gatherings [Nov. 3]. As a top Army officer in the war on terrorism, Boykin is not only contradicting President Bush's position that this is not a war against Islam, he is also fanning the flames of Muslim hatred of the U.S. Americans should be concerned about how Boykin's remarks suggest that U.S. foreign policy is captive to right-wing Christian fundamentalists. WILLIAM A. MCCARTNEY Delaware, Ohio...
...were not expecting such a blow, because here in Turkey, we have always proved Islam and Judaism can live harmoniously in a peaceful manner." AVI ALKAS, leader of Istanbul's Jewish community, after bomb blasts aimed at two synagogues killed more than 20 people...
...they dispatched 4,700 extra security forces there last week after foiling a plot that included plans to set off car bombs next to the Grand Mosque. Such attacks aim to undermine the authority of the Saudi royal family, whose legitimacy derives from its role as the protector of Islam's holiest shrines. "The government sees this as a direct threat to the regime and to stability, and they are confronting it as such," says Gary Grappo, U.S. charge d'affaires in Riyadh...