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...Where has Clarke been? The terrorists hate us because they are militant Islamists and they want to convert us to a Taliban-like country with Islam as the official religion. Terrorism is their weapon. It's incredibly naive to think it possible to reason with such people. John F. Barnes San Antonio...
...Prophet Muhammad prohibited even the mutilation of a dead mad dog ... What happened in Fallujah is a distortion of Islamic principles, and it is forbidden in Islam." SHEIK KHALID AHMED, senior Islamic cleric in Fallujah, condemning the mutilation of the corpses of four U.S. civilians by Iraqis...
...general. "He grew incommunicative, and he told me, sometime in 1999 or 2000, that he was having a personal crisis," Pérez Martín recalls. "He spent more and more time in the mosques, and soon he wasn't able to listen anymore, only to talk about Islam and the misery of the world." According to Spanish court documents, Fakhet's activities turned more radical once an invasion of Iraq - with Spanish participation - became a prospect. He worked as a sales agent for much of last year, but at the same time was gathering acolytes in Madrid mosques...
...arrests. Investigators lost his trail, even though he came back to Madrid soon after and sold his car. There are unconfirmed reports that he was aided in getting from Tehran to Afghanistan by Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the shadowy Jordanian thought to be the operational leader of Ansar al-Islam who is accused of orchestrating a series of attacks in Iraq. "Azizi could have been the one coordinating from the outside, but we don't know," a Spanish Interior Ministry official tells TIME. "We're looking for him, but not necessarily for March 11." But the Spanish News Agency reported...
...Similarly, the need for basing rights for the Afghanistan operation prompted the U.S. to crown Uzbekistan's authoritarian President Islam Karimov as an ally. But Human Rights Watch this week noted that President Karimov is using the war on terror as an excuse to mount a massive crackdown on all Muslims who want to practice their faith independently of the government. Some observers believe that this week's outbreak of bombings and shootings directed against the police in Uzbek cities may be rooted not only in local al-Qaeda linked groups, but also in response to President Karimov's repression...