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...organizer for a program organized by Egyptian and Saudi intelligence in conjunction with the CIA to recruit young Muslims from around the world enraged by this infidel occupation of a Muslim land, bring them through Pakistan to Afghanistan, train them, arm them, organize them into a kind of Islamist International Brigade and let them loose on the hapless Red Army. That program helped drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan in 1989, but it also built the foundations of the movement known today as al-Qaeda...
...staff to escape a chemical attack - for all of its over 700 employees as part of a new State Department program to supply its overseas stations with safety garb. And security agencies in Australia conducted practice drills to rehearse their response to a chemical, biological or radiological strike. One Islamist website warned that an attack would come Friday, but the day passed without incident. YEMEN Another Big Al-Qaeda Catch In Yemen The political calculation: the Bush Administration wanted everyone to know it had nabbed an al-Qaeda big. The security calculation: it didn't want anyone to know...
...later that year became mayor of Haifa, one of the few places in Israel where Jewish and Arab citizens mix relatively easily. Mitzna has earned credit for that among Israeli Arabs, more than 80% of whom boycotted the last election. But one group of Arabs won't be persuaded. Islamist groups are eager to step up their suicide bombings before the election with the aim of pushing Israelis still farther away from negotiations. "Hamas and Islamic Jihad are going to decide the Israeli elections," says a senior Palestinian security official. Israel's right wing already has a clear lead...
...have to be hammered out, and a decision made on whether to back an unpopular U.S.-led war on Iraq. Erdogan's first act as Turkey's non-Prime Minister will be to tour Europe, starting with an old enemy, Greece. He is hoping to allay fears about an Islamist threat. And then he must convince doubters at home...
...theory, the government of Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf is committed to routing al-Qaeda elements from redoubts within Pakistan. But Islamabad holds little sway in the tribal regions of the northwestern frontier, which are largely autonomous and which just voted in district governments with Islamist agendas...