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...possession of explosives, did stints in Mindanao in the late 1990s. The MILF willingly provided training facilities to foreign fighters, but in the days following the war to oust the Soviets in Afghanistan, the group's hospitality was motivated more by international Islamist solidarity than by anti-Western jihad. In 2000, the Philippine military overran all of the MILF's bases?including its two biggest camps, Abubakar and Bushra, which hosted militants from overseas. But since 9/11 and especially the Bali bombing, the authorities in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore have been cracking down hard on Islamic radicals at home, sending...
...some of the Islamic fighters supported by the CIA in Afghanistan brought their jihad to America. Ramzi Yousef, who planned the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, was trained in Afghanistan. The war left Afghanistan desolated; an estimated 1 million people died in the conflict. And what happened afterward? The warring factions fought one another, the Taliban took over, and guess whom they allowed in to train terrorists on their soil...
ACQUITTED. JAFAR UMAR THALIB, 40, Muslim cleric and leader of the Indonesian militia Laskar Jihad, of charges of inciting his followers to commit violence against Christians; in Jakarta. The prosecution said Jafar had made incendiary remarks in a speech last April in Ambon, capital of the Maluku Islands, just two days before a gang of Muslims attacked a Christian village and killed 12 people. The court ruled that the speech was insufficient evidence, leading some observers to question the country's commitment to combating Islamic militancy. In recent years, Laskar Jihad has been blamed for the deaths of hundreds...
...Consulate and NATO bases in nearby Bagnoli and Capodichino circled. A police spokesman confirmed that officers also found a photograph - circled several times - of Britain's military chief, Admiral Sir Michael Boyce. Also seized were forged identity documents, some 100 cell phones and pictures of "martyrs of the Jihad." The police commander noted that none of the men arrested revealed any information about his companions. - By Jeff Israely/Naples Not Above the Law Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi lashed out at the judiciary on TV, accusing it of meddling in politics. His broadcast followed a decision by the Supreme Court to reject...
...home to Spin Boldak with no more than five men. But lately, Rahim has grown more dangerous?and apparently much better financed. With cash to burn, allegedly from wealthy patrons of terror in Pakistan, he recruited a band of gunmen from nearby villages?sometimes by force?for a new jihad against the Americans. Rahim's gang planted two explosives in Spin Boldak last month, killing four civilians and injuring scores more. His force swelled to more than 60 fighters, and they raced around Spin Boldak on new motorcycles brought from Pakistan. Rahim keeps dangerous company: he is loyal to Gulbuddin...