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Amrozi revered Ali Ghufron, who was two years older and the most devout member of the family. In the 1970s Ali Ghufron, with his brothers Ali Imron and Amin Jabir, left Tenggulun to study at Ngruki, 250 miles to the east, in a school established by Abubakar Ba'asyir, a Muslim cleric widely believed to be the spiritual leader of JI. Ba'asyir is currently detained on suspicion of being involved in the series of bombings in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta in Christmas 2000. In the mid-1980s Ali Ghufron went to study in Malaysia, and a few years...
...Middle East, some clerics are providing young men with religious rationales for slaughter. But they are the anomaly in the global embrace of the faith. The leaders of Islamic America describe such reasoning as worse than a minority opinion--in fact, a kind of perversion. Sheik Taha Jabir Alalwani, president of the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences, has this to say of the Twin Tower terrorists: "If they claim they are Muslim, I would say they...
...Every artillery round fired, meanwhile, brings fragile Macedonia closer to the precipice. "At least before everyone was living their own lives, if within their own communities," said Jabir Derala, 33, a peace activist in Skopje of mixed Albanian, Turkish and Croatian descent. "Now everybody is one sided. You can see the city is empty. Albanians are on one side of the bridge and Macedonians are on the other. " In the past, he added, "we could speak about mistrust . Now it has turned into hatred." For Captain first-class Muhaedin Bela , who says he was singled out for suspicion only because...
...fatigue, Fischer's trip had its compensations. "The Arab tradition of hospitality," he says, "is alive and well. When we arrived at Sidi Jabir railroad station in Alexandria, members of the press were each presented with a fresh flower by gracious Egyptian girls. At the Alexandria Sporting Club, we were plied with Arab pastries and cool glasses of lemonade." Egyptian crowds all along the route cheered wildly for the two Presidents and directed huzzas at the press corps riding by-until recently a rare experience for Americans in Egypt...
...plane to pick up the oryxes, which had been shipped to New Jersey. The four consisted of two males and two females, Edith from Aden, and Caroline, contributed by the London Zoo. Another female, still unnamed, will arrive at the end of summer, a gift of Sheik Abdulla Al-Jabir As-Sabah of Kuwait...