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...little in the makeup of the G.M.I.P. suggests that it shares the jihadist fervor of JI or al-Qaeda. Founded in 1995, the group seems driven as much by profiteering as fighting for Islam. Like the Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines, the G.M.I.P. is deep into extortion and kidnapping. Governmental and security officials are speculating openly that the group is not seizing arms for its own use but to sell on the black market that flourishes in the south...
...Muslim boy and a Christian girl. The social cataclysms that have begun to rack Indonesia are felt here only as faraway echoes, until a boatload of survivors of gruesome atrocities in strife-torn Ambon, the capital of Maluku, washes up on Noli's shores. Soon afterward, a gang of jihadist rabble-rousers arrives, with a mandate from sinister elements in the army to create chaos as part of an ongoing plot to destabilize the nation in the aftermath of Suharto's fall. Within days the island's idyll is shattered, and neighbors who had long lived peacefully side by side...
...with shoes packed with explosives. A handprint and hair found in the explosives did not belong to Reid. In the wake of that aborted attack, Reid was identified by detained veterans of al-Qaeda's Afghan training centers as having attended the Khalden camp, which catered to European-national jihadists and taught kamikaze tactics. Both Zacarias Moussaoui, the accused "20th hijacker," and "millennium bomber" Ahmed Ressam were Khalden graduates. That Khalden nurtured European jihad recruits was no accident. The camp was run by Abu Zubaydah, a Palestinian who acted as al-Qaeda's chief recruiter and puppet master of Europe...
...other locales. Levy doesn't buy the argument that Pearl, who was 38, was murdered simply because he was an American and a Jew - ?crimes? to which he confessed moments before he was decapitated. Rather, Levy suggests, Pearl?s killing was a ?state crime,? orchestrated by a syndicate of Jihadist groups with the backing of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), its CIA. Levy theorizes that Pearl was close to uncovering ties between ISI chiefs and al Qaeda. He also believes Pearl was on the trail of Pakistani nuclear scientists who may have helped the terrorist group...
...Indian prison in 1999 by the hijackers of an Indian Airlines flight who demanded his freedom as a condition for peacefully abandoning the plane in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. As Levy points out, Sheikh operated freely in Pakistan, living openly with his wife and son, even though he worked with Jihadist groups who may have had connections to Osama bin Laden. Through these and other associations, Levy also infers that Sheikh was connected to the ISI. And he questions why Pakistani officials announced Sheikh?s arrest only a week after he had actually turned himself in - at about the same time...