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...They disagree with a broad range of his policies, ranging from his opposition to the Kyoto treaty on global warming to his support of the death penalty. The gravest gulf comes over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, where Europeans believe Bush's inaction and support for Israel lend credence to Islamist claims that the war on terrorism and the war on Iraq are really a war against Islam...
...Arab ?lite are starry-eyed kids like Nabil, Sonia and Tamara. Toujan Faisal is a seasoned political campaigner. As a member of the Jordanian Parliament in the mid-'90s, she stood out for her strong views on women's issues - and for her fashion sense. At a time when Islamist lawmakers were advocating traditional Arab dress for women, she defiantly wore short skirts to Parliament. These days, she is an outspoken advocate of democracy for Arab nations. "The old-style Arab regimes don't like my frankness," she says, defiantly. "But I represent modernity, and I say what needs...
...backgrounds, number in the hundreds now." Just how the suspects came to be apprehended last week has not been revealed. But information from French antiterrorist investigators confirms that most if not all of them are Algerians, and suggests that core members of their group are so-called Chechen Islamists, an international mix of al-Qaeda operatives (including many North Africans) trained in Afghanistan as well as in camps set up in the Caucasus before the Sept. 11 attacks. The al-Qaeda camps in Georgia's Pankisi Valley - which until a Georgian security crackdown last year was a lawless haven...
...late wife, who blamed him for her death in a house fire last July. Fingerprints found on the weapons and explosives did not belong to Besseghir, but a sniffer dog detected traces of explosives on the back seat of his car. PAKISTAN Anti-U.S. Anger Thousands joined Islamist-led protests against a possible war on Iraq and a disputed U.S. bombing on the border with Afghanistan. Pakistani politicians claimed the U.S. had bombed a disused Islamic seminary inside Pakistan, but U.S. officials said that the incident took place on the Afghan side of the frontier. IVORY COAST Fragile Truce...
...Fear of the SCUDS falling into the hands of terrorists may be one reason Washington chose to intercept them. Although Yemen has allied closely with the U.S. in the wake of 9/11, it remains a hotbed of al-Qaeda activity. The weakness of its government and the influence of Islamist groups certainly raises a concern that equipment shipped to the Yemeni military could, in the long run, fall into the hands of terrorists. Yemen's backing of Iraq during the first Gulf War may also have left U.S. officials concerned at the fact that it was acquiring such weapons...