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...federal grand jury last week indicted a second U.S. citizen for al-Qaeda related activity; the first was John Walker Lindh (see box). Earnest James Ujaama allegedly conspired to set up a jihad training camp in Oregon and provide support and resources for al-Qaeda. He maintains his innocence. Also last week, four north Africans were indicted in Detroit, accused of operating a sleeper cell...
...Osama bin Laden and the other radical militants of jihad, Sept. 11, 2001, was a gigantic provocation, a great blast meant to free their movement from the spiral of political decline that had ensnared it since the early 1990s. But if the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon demonstrated remarkable technological, financial and practical agility, they did not achieve the political expansion the militants had sought--quite the contrary. The extremist supporters of the U.S. attacks have posted a disastrous record during the past year. In their principal objective--to mobilize the Muslim masses behind a victorious jihad...
...rupture appeared between moderate Islamists--those of the pious middle classes imbued with conservatism--and the more radical movements that view the Wahhabi kingdom as a U.S. protectorate that must be destroyed. In the first half of the 1990s, radical fighters sought to repeat the Afghan victory by making jihad in Bosnia, Egypt and Algeria. As the host states took repressive measures to smash them, however, these militant groups saw their support from the masses decay. By 1997 a number of exiled leaders of Egypt's al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, or Islamic Group--responsible for the assassination of foreign...
From his refuge in Afghanistan, bin Laden began issuing "declarations of jihad" against America for "occupying" the holy land of Saudi Arabia. In 1998 he ordered followers to "kill the Americans and their allies, civilians and military...in any country in which it is possible." The principal target was the U.S. and its relationship with Saudi Arabia. But the Americans weren't disposed to negotiate or yield to terrorist blackmail. Then came 9/11...
...leaves him little choice). Despite his own Pashtun roots, Karzai's ability to secure support in his heartland is imperiled by the disproportionate Tajik power in Kabul. That suits his Pashtun enemies: Since the Spring, the Taliban, al-Qaeda and Hekmatyar have all sought to foment a new 'jihad' against Karzai and the U.S. by exploiting Pashtun alienation from the Tajik-dominated government. That, and the vicious rivalry among local warlords - some of whom have been anointed as regional chieftains by the new government or been financed and armed by the U.S. for proxy service in the hunt...