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...Qaeda can easily find "lots of idiots ready to blow themselves and others up in the name of some higher cause," says a senior French antiterrorism official. French intelligence authorities believe those second-generation radicals are forming scores of separate underground groups only loosely allied in a broad jihad movement. Because they're not large or well organized, they have proved tough to spot...
...operative: "I need Japanese guys here," presum- ably a reference to kamikaze-style bombers. The Italians issued an arrest warrant for the man they believe to be that operative, an Algerian called Abderrazak Mahdjoub, who was arrested by German police on suspicion of recruiting Islamic militants to join the jihad in Iraq. Lawyers for Mahdjoub, 29, were unavailable for comment. Italian authorities said warrants had been issued for five of his associates, and that three - two Tunisians and a Moroccan - had been nabbed in Milan. In Britain, police in Gloucester arrested Sajid Badat, a Briton of Pakistani origin whom unconfirmed...
Istanbul has now joined Riyadh - and Casablanca and Jakarta and Karachi and Mombasa, among others - as a new theater of al-Qaeda's global jihad. A brace of suicide bombings killed some 27 people at the city's British consulate and the headquarters of the London-based bank HSBC on Thursday, following on last Saturday's attacks on two synagogues that killed 25 people. The attacks, for which al-Qaeda affiliated groups have claimed responsibility are a reminder both of the group's resilience, but also of its new form. And the fact that Thursday's targets were British served...
...successfully capitalized on the upsurge of worldwide Muslim outrage over the invasion to swell its ranks. And the escalating insurgency confronting U.S. troops in Iraq - punctuated by regular suicide terror attacks reminiscent of those committed by al Qaeda - may be amplifying Bin Laden's message that the path of jihad can defeat the U.S. and redeem Arab honor...
...Bush's point that the absence of channels for democratic political participation in Arab states has helped foster terrorism, which has eventually been exported. Osama Bin Laden may be Saudi, but most of the top-tier al-Qaeda leadership at the time of 9/11 were veterans of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a militant offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood that turned to terrorism in response to the Sadat regime's peace treaty with Israel, and found hundreds of willing recruits in Egypt's middle class and in its officer corps. The Brotherhood, of course, is a far more moderate Islamist entity than...