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...renegade fighters, together with Arabs and other foreigners and their families--around 2,000 people, according to some estimates--holed up in the town of Zurmat. About three weeks ago, local chieftains got wind of a possible U.S. strike and went to the al-Qaeda fighters with an open Koran, pleading with them to leave--and offering them about $10,000 to do so. Then the al-Qaeda men appeared in the village with their wives and children, all wearing funeral shrouds, according to Din Mohammad Darwish, a local radio technician. They cried, "You're sending us to our graves...
...renegade fighters, together with Arabs and other foreigners and their families?around 2,000 people, according to some estimates?holed up in the town of Zurmat. About three weeks ago, local chieftains got wind of a possible U.S. strike and went to the al-Qaeda fighters with an open Koran, pleading with them to leave?and offering them about $10,000 to do so. Then the al-Qaeda men appeared in the village with their wives and children, all wearing funeral shrouds, according to Din Mohammad Darwish, a local radio technician. They cried, "You're sending us to our graves...
...prisons. "Islam is a sort of natural religion for underdogs," says Ziauddin Sardar, a British scholar of Islam, "and that's one reason why Afro-Caribbean people have found its message very attractive." Prison authorities have allowed imams to bring literature into the jails--everything from copies of the Koran to anti-American leaflets highlighting the importance of jihad. Only since Reid's arrest has there been any vetting of the publications...
...prisons. "Islam is a sort of natural religion for underdogs," says Ziauddin Sardar, a British scholar of Islam, "and that's one reason why Afro-Caribbean people have found its message very attractive." Prison authorities have allowed imams to bring literature into the jails-everything from copies of the Koran to anti-American leaflets highlighting the importance of jihad. Only since Reid's arrest has there been any vetting of the publications...
...less threatening, but more scholarly and sophisticated, is Saeed, 54. The charismatic red-bearded Islamic-studies professor is Lashkar-e-Taiba's main ideologue. Born in 1947 during his family's flight from northern India during Partition, Saeed memorized the Koran as a boy. He fought briefly in the Afghan jihad against the U.S.S.R. and in 1986 founded the Markaz Ad-Da'wah Wal Irshad, a religious education and proselytizing organization. Lashkar spun off two years later, attracting veterans of the Afghan war. It has taken responsibility for many hit-and-run operations in Indian-held Kashmir but says...