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...Palestine was never at the top of al-Qaeda's list of grievances. In al-Qaeda's 1998 declaration of war on the U.S., Palestine is a distant third. But with Iran, through Hamas and Hizballah, having seized leadership of the jihad against the Jews, al-Qaeda could not stand by and allow its Islamist primacy to be eclipsed by the mullahs of Tehran...
...withdrawal from southern Lebanon freed the militant group to expand the scope of its activities in the region. U.S. officials believe Iran has looked increasingly to Hizballah as a tool to thwart the Israeli-Palestinian peace process by encouraging the group to lend operational support to Hamas and Islamic Jihad...
...rolled into a Sunni neighborhood Sunday morning. They dragged people from their cars or off the sidewalk, checked their IDs, and murdered anyone who appeared to be a Sunni. More than 40 bodies were taken to hospitals or found lying in the streets of the western Baghdad neighborhood of Jihad. While the mass murder of civilians here is nothing new, the daytime invasion of a Sunni neighborhood by Shi'ite militiamen is the most brazen attack in recent memory...
...Night Live. When the FBI raided the abandoned warehouse where the group hung out in Miami's impoverished Liberty City neighborhood, they found no weapons, no money and no evidence of ties to any terrorist group anywhere. Indeed, these would-be jihadis were so early in their planning for jihad that they hadn't yet set aside time to become Muslims. The group, according to a follow-up report from Reuters, "mixes Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, Freemasonry, Gnosticism and Taoism." Their covert methods included taking turns guarding the abandoned warehouse (which served as their clubhouse) wearing black uniforms, ski masks...
...Qaeda network. It seems odd to deny an al-Qaeda link in the light of a video message from Khan, accompanied by a statement by Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in which Khan identifies the London bombings as part of al-Qaeda's global jihad, and al-Zawahiri threatens further attacks. Radicalizing But the extent of al-Qaeda's role is a minor concern, compared with the need to understand the bombers' motivation. What triggers young Muslims' interest in the ideology of extremist Islamic organizations? Research indicates that for many, the invasion and occupation of Iraq...