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...meantime, the Russians are developing relations with China, Iraq, Libya, Vietnam and North Korea and deepening links with Iran. Western criticism of this infuriates the Kremlin--but emboldens Putin's policy planners as well. These are, after all, countries that enjoyed good relations with the old Soviet Union, and all keep their own people under varying degrees of control. For the neo-Soviets who run Russia these days, this is reassuring. But like their Soviet predecessors, they also want major world powers to consult them, include them, respect them. This is what they miss and what, for a weekend...
...Khost, Janjalani made up for his diminutive size with ferocity and his oratory, honed at Islamic universities in Libya and Syria. He reverentially appropriated Sayyaf's name (which means "swordsman" in Arabic) for his group back home. In 1991, Abu Sayyaf struck its first blow by killing two American evangelists in a grenade blast in Zamboanga. This was followed by a string of kidnappings, massacres and extortion operations. Cassette tapes of Janjalani's jihad sermons began circulating, and other gangs of Moro brigands in the Sulu islands?who specialized in running drugs and guns, kidnapping and growing marijuana?accepted Janjalani...
...that are political concerns. The Philippines has a new President, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, and she announced from the start that she had no intention of suffering the humiliation dealt predecessor Joseph Estrada last year. Estrada succumbed to Malaysian and European pleas to hold the troops back and allowed Libya to broker a ransom deal. As a result, the ragtag band of one year ago has grown into a kidnapping army that can only get more audacious with every success. With Washington's backing, Arroyo refused all negotiation and ordered 5,000 troops into the scattered Sulu archipelago...
...Tourism is not Arroyo's sole concern. The off-and-on Muslim rebellion in the southern Philippines, which dates back to the 1970s, is threatening to graduate from domestic inconvenience to international threat. Many Philippine Muslim leaders, like Abu Sabaya, were schooled and trained in Islamist strongholds such as Libya and maintain links with insurgents across the Middle East and South Asia. Asiri Abubakar of the University of the Philippines' Asian studies department says the south could become the "regional base of operations" for Asian Muslim terror groups. "If the Philippines does not watch out," he warns, "the southern Philippines...
...Resources Division that works entirely in the U.S. It isn't allowed to wiretap Americans or otherwise spy on them but can ask them to volunteer information. So the question for any global executive is this: If the CIA asks you for information about your trip to Cuba or Libya or China, what should you do? Many people, impelled by feelings of patriotism, are happy to help. But things get murky quickly in the spy world. How do you know the person contacting you is not a foreign agent or business competitor? What are the risks to your business...