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...over Europe, security forces were intensifying their campaign against terror. In Istanbul, police arrested 37 suspected members of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front, a Marxist group on the U.S. and E.U. terror lists. Though it is not doctrinally close to al-Qaeda, experts think the group has been goaded into planning more grandiose attacks by al-Qaeda's success. Sixteen other alleged members were caught in coordinated raids in Italy, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. In Italy, police launched a nationwide "preventive" sweep late Friday, taking 90 mostly Moroccans into custody. And prosecutors talked publicly about a small...
...Brigades has made bogus claims, including authorship of last summer's power outage in the northeastern U.S. But the Brigades also claimed to have carried out November's bombings of synagogues and British targets in Istanbul, in which 61 were killed, and the August bombing of U.N. headquarters in Baghdad in which 22 died. Some intelligence experts take the Brigades seriously--they could be "the new military wing of al-Qaeda in charge of external jihad," says Mustafa Alani, a Middle East security expert at London's Royal Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies--but no one has verified...
Jihad's Spread The Istanbul blasts open a new front in the terror war [11/23/2003...
...When terror outrages from Madrid and Casablanca, through Istanbul and Baghdad, to Bali and Jakarta, are described as the work of "al-Qaeda," the name describes a broad franchise of terrorist jihad against the U.S. and its allies adopted by scores of local Islamist groups. Western intelligence agencies don't believe the men on the run in western Pakistan are actually pulling the trigger on attacks such as the Madrid bombings. Instead, bin Laden and his deputies set broad objectives in their "State of the Union" type addresses periodically released to Arab broadcast media, and those objectives can be pursued...
...symbol -a signifier that immediately explains its content. Local jihadi groups in Iraq or Turkey that have no operational contact with bin Laden's leadership cadre nonetheless proclaim their affiliation with al-Qaeda, because that association amplifies the meaning of a specific action - the bombing of a hotel in Istanbul or an embassy in Baghdad - by tying it to a global jihad. Claiming the "al-Qaeda" imprimatur also allows such groups to burnish their appeal among local malcontents, whose anti-American sentiment is at an all-time high...