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...attacks follow public statements by elements close to al-Qaeda and the Taliban promising a new guerrilla campaign against the U.S. and the Karzai government. Earlier this week, the notorious Pashtun warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar declared a 'jihad' for the ouster of foreign forces from Afghanistan. With Karzai's authority limited to the capital, much of the countryside in the hands of fickle warlords and many Pashtuns suspicious of the disproportionate dominance of ethnic Tajiks in his government, the remnants of the Taliban may be finding fertile ground for a resurgence. Beside the bomb blasts and assassination attempts in the capital...
Other items the hard-liners like to list seem even longer on speculation. They point to a visit bin Laden deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri supposedly made to Saddam in 1992. But Zawahiri was then the head of Egyptian Islamic Jihad and had not yet hooked up with al-Qaeda. Nor has the CIA been able to verify a Saddam-Zawahiri meeting, especially at a time when Baghdad was trying to improve relations with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Zawahiri's prime target...
...through seemingly apolitical petty crime, such as credit card fraud, car theft and so on. Even if these operatives are caught, they have in many instances been tried, convicted and sentenced to short spells in prison without their terror connection becoming apparent. Of course such actions can only generate jihad in increments of $5,000 to $10,000 per crime, but the money adds up. And despite the huge amounts discussed in the U.N. report, al-Qaeda's budget for mass murder doesn't necessarily need millions. Investigators believe the September 11 hijackers were financed mostly from abroad...
...ARTS Music: China's Woodstock Movies: Hollywood Hong Kong Interview: Director Fruit Chan Books: Life of Pi Books: My Jihad...
...ARTS Music: China's Woodstock Movies: Hollywood Hong Kong Interview: Director Fruit Chan Books: Life of Pi Books: My Jihad...