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...planning and day-to-day administration, the two men wooed KMM members in Selangor and elsewhere into a new organization they established in the late 1990s, called the Jemaah Islamiah. Abubakar hammered home the themes he still preaches at his school in central Java today: the glory of a martyr's death and the overriding goal of setting up a Muslim government. Officials say he espoused the formation of a new Islamic state encompassing Malaysia, Indonesia, the southern Philippines, Singapore and Brunei. To fund such an ambitious vision, he was in contact with al-Qaeda paymasters and responsible for funneling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eye of the Storm | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

...investigators: Ramzi Binalshibh, a 29-year-old Yemeni who appears wearing a red kaffiyeh, was named as an unindicted co-conspirator of Zacarias Moussaoui, the French operative arrested in August and indicted Dec. 11 for planning terrorist attacks. U.S. officials believe that Binalshibh is a hard-core suicide martyr who wanted to be the 20th hijacker. A member of the Hamburg cell led by Mohammed Atta, he unsuccessfully tried to obtain a visa to enter the U.S. to take flying lessons on four occasions in 2000. He also wired thousands of dollars to the hijackers; last August he sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Martyrs' Home Movies | 1/28/2002 | See Source »

...Israeli forces had entered Nablus and also Tulkarm in response to last Thursday's attack on a Bat Mitzvah celebration in the Israeli city of Hadera, where a Palestinian gunman shot dead six revelers. The terrorists, in both instances, were sent not by Hamas, but by the Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade - an armed group linked with Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization, which claimed to be avenging last week's assassination of one of its local leaders. And, once the Jerusalem shooter's address and affiliations are firmly established, expect to see further Israeli action - and further terror attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Glimmers of Hope Amid the Mideast Carnage? | 1/23/2002 | See Source »

...surprising that she is the true star of the latest Broadway revival of Strindberg’s Dance of Death, somehow managing to outshine her distinguished co-star, Sir Ian McKellen. With a flawless, expressive delivery, Mirren is radiant as a long-suffering wife who is part-demon, part-martyr...

Author: By Adam R. Perlman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Everybody's Got The Right | 1/11/2002 | See Source »

...forgiven when he sheds his first drop of blood, that he can admit 70 relatives to paradise and will himself be married there to 72 beautiful virgins, a point emphasized by Osama bin Laden. (Some authorities, however, feel that causing one's own death categorically disqualifies one as a martyr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suicide Attacks: Why The Bombers Keep Coming | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

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