Word: islamicization
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Likewise, some of the familiar groups involved in terror, like Lebanon's Hizballah and the Palestinian militants of Hamas, seem less suspect this time, since both now largely restrict their attacks to Israeli targets. But little dissident cells keep proliferating, and for many of them America is a generalized object...
The roundup of what a Tanzanian police spokesman called "dubious characters" may even be motivated by the government's concern too nip in the bud any signs of Islamic militancy. "It appears the Tanzanians have had these people under surveillance for some time and are using the bombing as a...
Although the intelligence community hasn't ruled out any possibility, they're focusing attention on radical Islamic groups who've committed such acts in the past. "But remember," cautions Waller, "the perpetrators very often turn out to be someone other than the first suspects." The arrests in Tanzania of three...
Although no group has claimed responsibility, the coordination of the two attacks suggests a professional operation. That, together with the absence of any major local anti-U.S. militancy, is leading U.S. intelligence to concentrate on outside Islamic fundamentalist groups -- although there is little to indicate the involvement of any...
Why is Iran saber rattling now, just when President Mohammed Khatami is cultivating nervous Arab neighbors and the West with a more moderate foreign policy? And just when Washington has signaled its readiness to improve relations? Political warfare at home may be the explanation. The country's supreme leader, Ayatullah...