Word: islamists
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...terrorist hunters were feeling fairly satisfied with themselves. On Saturday, Aug. 19, after a 10-day chase, Palestinian security forces in the Gaza Strip finally cornered and trapped Wa'el Nassar, a member of the radical Islamist group Hamas, who they suspected was planning a suicide bombing in Israel. Later that night, the Israelis captured 10 members of a Hamas cell in the West Bank, including, they believed, the mastermind of a bus bombing in the city of Ramat Gan on July 24. The sweep also led to the seizure of three ready-to-go bombs, a car fixed...
...seems, is completely safe in Pakistan. On March 11, police quietly captured six men in the Islamist stronghold of Peshawar who had talked by telephone to Ramzi Yousef just before the accused mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was himself arrested in Pakistan and quickly extradited to the U.S. The six were suspected of conspiring with Yousef in his skein of terrorist plots, but only after they had been questioned last week did Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto learn that she too had been a target of the terrorists...
This bloody catalog is what the Algerian government showed when a handful of foreign journalists were permitted in the country last week under government protection. Even so, the visit offered a rare glimpse inside the maelstrom of a country where violence on both the Islamist and government sides has closed the door to outsiders, leaving Algeria to conduct its vicious hidden war in private...
...White House's vigor on this matter was justified if a bit extraordinary. Iran is undoubtedly the single largest threat to the Middle East's regional stability. In addition to its tireless campaign to produce weapons of mass-destruction, Iran sponsors Islamist terror worldwide, most notably of last in Algeria and the West Bank...
Since widespread Islamist violence and the government's repressive response have just about closed the country to outsiders, no one can gauge the full extent of Algeria's torment. Certainly there is little chance for a full investigation of the prison riot demanded by exiled leaders of the Islamic Salvation Front (F.I.S.). The bloodletting also makes it more difficult for Islamists who advocate a dialogue with the government. ``The military ruined the possibility of negotiations on purpose,'' said a source close to the F.I.S. leadership in Algiers...