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...Sayyaf in the mid-90s, bin Laden's network was closely monitoring the MILF as a larger and better organized vehicle for Islamic revolution. In the second half of the '90s the MILF, under the leadership of its chairman Hashim Salamat, was also developing its own contacts with Islamist and overtly jihadi groups across Southeast Asia and beyond. Indeed, today the MILF has emerged as a central player in the perennially murky web of underground Islamism in Southeast Asia. Since at least 1996 the MILF jungle camps are believed to have played host to several hundred jihadis from the Middle...
...possibility of additional suspects - could not be confirmed. The arrest of three other Moroccans two weeks ago in the nearby village of Tor Bella Monica suggested to some that a large terrorist cell could be at work. Morocco "is not what you'd consider a hotbed of Islamist activity," says a French antiterrorism official. "But the germ of extremism exists there, and it's not surprising that Moroccans have turned up within Islamist terror groups...
According to the French justice official, the embassy may become even more of an al-Qaeda target as attempts are foiled. "We've seen the penchant - almost obsession - of Islamist terrorists to go back to targets they have been prevented from destroying in earlier plots," this source says. This new attempt on the U.S. embassy in Rome may not have been as daring or well-planned as the World Trade Center attack, but it could have been deadly
...Meanwhile, Akhnouche's testimony has cheered French officials. "His address book is a veritable resource of Islamist operatives," says one. And European officials tell Time that Reid's old prepaid telephone cards have been discovered. One was used to place calls to the cell phone of Nizar Trabelsi, the alleged would-be bomber of the U.S. embassy in Paris. (Trabelsi has denied that he was ever part of a terrorist group...
...last fall, Musharraf sided with the U.S. and embarked on a risky campaign to save his country from its two-decade drift towards Islamic extremism and economic collapse. He offered the U.S. military bases and intelligence support to wage war on the Taliban and stared down the resulting domestic Islamist backlash. Recognizing that the rot of extremism ran to the highest levels of his military and intelligence services, he risked alienating the institutions that had brought him to power by purging a number of Taliban supporters from the top brass. And earlier this year, under pressure from...