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...Wrong Side of the Law The connection between al-Qaeda and Iran from October 2000 to February 2001 that the 9/11 commission uncovered [July 26-August 2] is not news to everyone. Thanks to Iran's vast oil revenues, the Iranian mullahs are able to finance Islamist terrorists worldwide. Iran is, in fact, the mother of modern Islamist terrorism, with its truck bombings, suicide attacks, hostage taking and international assassinations. Iran has been on the wrong side of the law for a long time, and the world has made only minimal attempts to stop it. Misusing the funds that belong...
...Arkcoll Lilydale, Australia The Wrong Side of the Law The connection between al-Qaeda and Iran between October 2000 and February 2001 that the 9/11 commission uncovered [July 26] is not news to everyone. Thanks to Iran's vast oil revenues, the Iranian mullahs are able to finance Islamist terrorists worldwide. Iran is, in fact, the mother of modern Islamist terrorism, with its truck bombings, suicide attacks, political-hostage taking and international assassinations. Iran has been on the wrong side of the law for a long time, and the world has made only minimal attempts to stop it. Misusing...
...same time, even under the pressure of relentless Russian military action, many Chechen commanders had vigorously resisted efforts by Qaeda emissaries to enlist their men in schemes to attack U.S. targets in Russia. Still, the bitterness and despair engendered by the five year crackdown have seen Islamist influence grow. This is manifested in the emergence of suicide bombers, although the Chechens depart from conventional Qaeda practice by using women in this role - a habit learned, perhaps, from the secular nationalists of Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam, the movement that claims authorship of suicide bombing as a terror...
...foreign fighters in the 1990s fresh from their war against the Soviets in Afghanistan. A more radical element in the Chechen resistance, personified by the notorious commander Shamil Basayev, had made common cause with this element in recruiting a new generation of fighters more extreme in their commitments and Islamist ideology - and it may well be elements of this group behind the current wave of attacks. (Basayev had, for example, boasted some time ago about training a legion of women suicide bombers...
...game plan has been to do everything in its power to draw localized insurgencies involving Muslims in different parts of the world under its own global banner. The Chechen insurgency is, first and foremost, a nationalist struggle to secede from Russia, and the rise of a more extremist and Islamist element within that insurgency is, in part, an effect of the often indiscriminate brutality of the Russian crackdown, and Moscow's rejection of any political dialogue with the secular-nationalist leadership under Aslan Mashkadov, whom Moscow had previously recognized as the president of Chechnya...