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...That threat may have emanated from a Nauru-registered Islamist website run by the previously unknown Brigade Istimata Internasional, which features what it claims is a floor plan of a U.S. embassy and lays out ways to attack the ambassador's office with rocket-propelled grenades or a mixture of TNT and the rodenticide Rodex. Anti-American sentiment has been running high in Indonesia, with the recently retracted Newsweek report on abuses of the Koran at the U.S.'s Guant?namo Bay detention camp prompting protests in several cities. And Indonesian newspapers reported last week that a group of 23 Indonesians...
...including from Russia, were replaced with light entertainment. The insurrection started when a group of armed men raided a local military base for weapons, then hit the local jail. There they freed inmates, including 23 well-known local businessmen accused of belonging to Akromiya, an offshoot of the banned Islamist party Hizb ut Tahrir. The men, who denied charges of extremism, quickly emerged as leaders of the revolt. Addressing the nation Saturday, Karimov said the rebels were Islamic extremists. Ten policemen had been killed, while the "criminals" had suffered "many more" casualties, he added. Meanwhile, Saidjakhon Zainabitdinov, a lawyer...
...insurgents have the loudest Sunni voice in the current political landscape. Although the spectacular terror strikes of the Zarqawi-led al-Qaeda faction may get the most headlines, the bulk of the insurgency is believed to be composed of Sunni fighters motivated by a combination of nationalist and Islamist sentiments and led by mid-level intelligence and military operatives of the old regime. They have systematically targeted the building blocks of stability for a new order: the nascent Iraqi security forces to whom the U.S. hopes to transfer security responsibility; the oil pipelines that represent the economic lifeline...
...hope the secret talks pay off. I am behind the Bush Administration's efforts. I fear, however, that in about five years the Americans are going to regret that we did not begin in the early '90s to use our greatest force to oppose Islamist extremists. Cherry Bethea El Dorado Hills, California...
...Sloatsburg, New York, U.S. I hope the secret talks pay off. I am behind the Bush Administration's efforts. I fear, however, that in about five years the Americans are going to regret that we did not begin in the early '90s to use our greatest force to oppose Islamist extremists. Cherry Bethea El Dorado Hills, California, U.S. Those Snap Decisions Columnist Joe Klein's "The Blink Presidency" [Feb. 28] persuasively captured George W. Bush's tendency to pursue both domestic and foreign policies on the basis of "instantaneous, subconscious decision making." Unfortunately, this is the same tendency that characterizes...