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...charge of mixing the chemicals used in the bombs. Mukhlas says that he, Hambali (who is still on the lam) and other J.I. leaders maintained close ties with al-Qaeda from the late 1980s on, and the official police summary of Mukhlas' interrogation states baldly, "Jemaah Islamiah's jihad operations were funded by al-Qaeda...
...Karim and Bukhari were fellow travelers on the jihad circuit, having fought together in Kashmir and Afghanistan. Bukhari ran a boot camp for Kashmiri volunteers inside Afghanistan?a camp that intelligence sources say was used to train members of al-Qaeda. In his Kashmir activities, Bukhari was also known, and abetted, by Pakistani intelligence services?a connection that worries U.S. officials looking into Pearl's death...
...preaching, despite a ban they placed on him last spring. Last week, however, the Commission said he had met a new deadline for making his case and that it would be reviewed over the next weeks. The Finsbury Park mosque has long been rumored to be a center for jihad recruitment under the aegis of Abu Hamza. Many prominent terrorist suspects spent time there, though Abu Hamza says he did not know any of them personally. Abu Hamza's anti-Western rhetoric and militancy has earned him a sinister reputation, but his supporters say he has done a great deal...
MIDDLE EAST One Step Forward ... A host of Palestinian groups met in Cairo for talks on ending attacks against Israel. Yasser Arafat's secular Fatah faction endorsed a proposed truce, but Hamas and Islamic Jihad rejected it. The need for a cease-fire was apparent in Gaza, where a Palestinian teen died in a gun battle after the Israeli army raided the town of Beit Hanoun. Troops also blew up bridges in reply to rocket attacks on the nearby Israeli town of Sderot. In the West Bank, Israel bulldozed more than 60 Palestinian shops near Tulkarem. Israeli officials said...
...Palestinians," Sabbah says, "and create understanding for - but not approval of - the motives of a person like Said." Don't pick up this book expecting a balanced look at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Sabbah, who was granted access to the would-be bomber by the terror group Islamic Jihad, doesn't try to hide his sympathy for its cause, though he disagrees with its tactics. Der Tod ist ein Geschenk is presented as Said's first-person account, and portrays him much like the protagonist of a Greek tragedy, unavoidably pushed toward catastrophe by circumstances beyond his control. Sabbah made...