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...European analysts now believe that Takfir thinking has won converts among terrorist groups. Beghal is Takfiri, and Daoudi is thought to be. Roland Jacquard, one of the world's leading scholars on Islamic terrorism, says flatly, "Atta was Takfiri." It is not just soldiers of al-Qaeda who may be following the Takfir line. Mustafa was executed in 1978, but his ideas lived on; the beliefs of al-Zawahiri's Al Jihad were dominated by Takfiri themes. Azzam Tamimi, director of the Institute of Islamic Political Thought in London, says of Zawahiri, "He is their ideologue now ... His ideas negate...
...Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's right-hand man and principal financier, has apparently written a memoir, an account of his life's "work and holy struggle." According to French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard, who has seen the approximately 600-page manuscript recently smuggled out of Afghanistan, the book details al-Zawahiri's reasons for devoting his life to the militant struggle, the significance of jihad and the justification and logic behind the killing of civilians. In short, says Jacquard, the manuscript is an al-Qaeda handbook. "What's really significant about this is the timing," Jacquard notes. "Bombs...
This guerrilla war, with women and children as collateral damage, is part of a broader military strategy to ensnare the U.S. in a larger East-West conflict. Roland Jacquard, president of the International Observatory on Terrorism in Paris, believes that bin Laden intended the Sept. 11 attack to be so "audacious, impudent and massively inhumane" as to ensure a "massive, inordinate" U.S. retaliation that would further inflame Muslim opinion against the U.S. and against the Arab regimes allied with Washington. Says Jacquard: "His design is to create sufficient instability to bring about Islamic revolution...
...others the measures are long overdue. Britain is "the weak link in the largely successful and cooperative effort to fight terrorism in Europe," says Roland Jacquard, the French president of the International Observatory on Terrorism. Britain is proud of its record as a refuge for those fleeing tyranny, and over the past two decades has provided a haven for many political dissidents from the Middle East. But critics say that extremists have used this openness to plan attacks, raise funds and otherwise foment terrorism. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has complained that Britain harbors "terrorists under the slogan of human rights...
...from wealthy donors in oil-producing countries, either out of dedication to his cause or as protection money. Islamic charities take in billions a year; much of it is used for good, but not all. "Behind one charity, business or Islamic group is another," says French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard. "The result is that some of these millions are handed over to Islamic fighters and terrorists...