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...free-market economy offer glittering opportunities. But for others - and this is true elsewhere in Europe - the modern world is a threat. "Europe," says Bernard Guetta, a columnist at L'Express, "is frightened of the new century." Some French see national identity challenged by immigration and the rise of Islam; they witness governmental powers ineluctably shifting from Paris to the European Union. They fear that an American-style, unfettered free-market economy has nibbled away at social cohesion. And so they have thrown their support to Le Pen, a man who promises to turn back the clock, to rebuild...
...commentary on suicide bombers, "Why We Blow Ourselves Up" [VIEWPOINT, April 8], psychiatrist Eyad Sarraj wrote that in the Koran, "God promised Muslims who sacrificed themselves for the sake of Islam" would not die but would "live on in paradise." This explanation highlights one of the most important reasons it is so difficult to attain peace in the Middle East: too many people misguidedly believe that something of a human being remains after death and that this something will experience pain and pleasure. The suffering resulting from this belief is unspeakably tragic. We need to strive for a better life...
...side effects were devastating. These militants sowed terror inside Pakistan, too. The blowback started when these holy warriors shifted their training camps over to Afghanistan. There, these Islamic extremists, recruited from radical mosques and seminaries around Pakistan, fell in with al-Qaeda. For them, bin Laden's apocalyptic vision of Islam was compelling?plus he had lots of cash. As one Western diplomat explains, "There was this large militant pool, with men drifting from one outfit to another...
...provide a network of safe houses for al-Qaeda agents as they crossed Pakistan on their way to and from their Afghan headquarters. The ISI also vetted new recruits and laundered terrorist funds through the hawala global network of informal money changers. Says Ahmed Rashid, author of Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia: "All these Pakistani groups were closely linked to the ISI through Kashmir." It was no surprise to foreign spooks that the ISI let al-Khadir escape from Peshawar. They believe he knew too much about the agency's ties with al-Qaeda...
...into the villages, and by then the suspect's gone." That should improve this June once Pakistan takes delivery of U.S. choppers and planes for border surveillance. A thornier problem for the American and ISI trackers is the tribesmen's natural affinity for bin Laden, his combative vision of Islam and the lure of big bucks from fleeing al-Qaeda fighters...