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...SAYFUL ISLAM, Luton al-Muhajiroun leader
...Bush can forget about international law in Iraq, why should we care about British law?" says Yasin Rehman, information secretary for the Luton Council of Mosques. "A lot of young people don't have a sense that this is really their country." A few hundred meters away, Sayful Islam proves Rehman's point. A year ago he was a government revenue officer; now, sporting a windbreaker with a "worldwide jihad" logo, he organizes full-time for al-Muhajiroun, a group that endorses the goals of Osama bin Laden. Well-spoken, highly intelligent, he says he doesn't know the people...
...come from abroad, but others seem to be indigenous. "We are not seeing a major flow of foreign fighters coming across the border," says Kimmitt. He thinks there are a "couple of hundred" extremists doing the dirty work, including a few al-Qaeda elements, remnants of Ansar al-Islam that were dispersed from their headquarters in the Kurdish north during the war, Sunni extremists who share bin Laden's radical brand of Islam and a trickle of individual volunteer jihadis...
...most often cited by occupation authorities as the ringleader is al-Zarqawi. They frequently tie the Jordanian militant to al-Qaeda and Ansar al-Islam. But now al-Zarqawi seems to be running his own network in Iraq. He allegedly set out, in a long letter U.S. officials attributed to him in January, his plan for inciting civil war through attacks on Iraqis. He was quickly blamed last week for the hotel bombing, which mimicked al-Qaeda's style. "I think he might be one of the leaders giving instructions," says Hertling. Catching al-Zarqawi is a "daily mission," says...
...group claiming authorship for the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, named for an al-Qaeda leader killed in a U.S. missile attack in Afghanistan. The message said one of its "death squads" had planted the bombs to settle "old accounts with Spain ... America's ally in its war against Islam." The statement went on, "The death squad succeeded in penetrating the crusader European depths and striking one of the pillars of the crusader alliance" and warned that another attack against the U.S. is "90% ready--and coming soon." The New York City police department sent, and Morocco planned to send...