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...Australia Israel shouldn't stop its military action until Hizballah disappears. We have nothing against the Lebanese people. From our point of view, they are free to live a normal life, as we do. The problem is the Hizballah terrorists on Lebanese soil. Especially since 9/11, the war against Islamic militants has been a struggle of life and death. The entire world should unite around the cause of freedom. Gabe Dearborne Kiryat Bialik, Israel Israel's attacks against the infrastructure and civilians of Lebanon are absolutely disproportionate and lacking in basic human consideration. The kidnapping or killing...
...will he? Don't count on it. If Nasrallah surrenders, it would destroy his newfound aura as Islam's defiant redeemer. He may agree in principle to a cease-fire, but it's doubtful he will ever allow Hizballah to be totally defanged, since the group's arms enable Nasrallah to call the shots in Lebanon--and moving to disarm Hizballah by force could trigger a civil war. Some see a clue to Nasrallah's intentions in the Koranic verse inscribed on the Hizballah flag adorning his television broadcasts. PREPARE FOR THEM WHATEVER FORCES YOU CAN MUSTER, it reads. Nasrallah...
...come from well-off, integrated families. But the U.S. Muslim community is less likely to breed disaffection, because it is extremely diverse. In fact, it is probably the most diverse in the world, hailing from many parts of the globe, speaking numerous languages and practicing several different versions of Islam. This makes it less likely that any one group will dominate and more likely that each subgroup will adapt to its new surroundings...
...latest suspects, if they are proved guilty, will join a growing list of British extremist converts: Currently serving a life sentence for trying to blow up an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami in December 2001 is "shoe bomber" Richard Reid, who is believed to have converted to Islam while in a young offenders' prison during the mid-1990s. And one of the July 7 London bombers, Jamaican-born Germaine Lindsay, reportedly changed his name to Jamal when he converted and was married to a white woman, also a convert, with whom he had a young...
...their motivation and stimulation from Al Qaeda but, on the operative level, they act independently," says Rolf Tophoven, head of the Essen-based Institute for Terrorism Research and Security Policy and Germany's leading expert on international terrorism. "They have been radicalized and turned to a kind of perverted Islam." Since homegrown terrorist groups "have metastasized in many places around the world," he says, "identifying, tracing and surveilling them will become increasingly difficult. Especially since it very hard to infiltrate groups of what shocked neighbors usually later describe as 'nice, ordinary young men.' " The 24 arrested suspects can be held...