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...young men to join the jihad. Many of the MAGNIFICENT 19 stickers plastered on lampposts and walls across Britain have been scratched off by authorities, but police rarely disrupt al-Muhajiroun's stalls or meetings. Last month police raided the homes of the group's leaders, Sheik Omar Bakri Muhammad and Anjem Choudary, but both men remain at liberty...
...line snaking above each eye - scars from the gym. He began to learn to box in 1998, when he was "looking down at the abyss of middle age and not fancying the drop." He heard about white-collar fights at New York's Gleason's Gym - once home of Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson - and flew over to box a dentist (yes, a dentist) in March 1999. Upon his return home, acquaintances ventured they'd like a shot at the sweet science. So in July 2000, he organized Capital Punishment, which pitted Londoners (among them a company director...
...first the Ayatullah's fate was unclear. The blast occurred moments after the Friday morning prayers, and most of those outside believed he had not yet left the shrine to Ali, the Prophet Muhammad's son-in-law, in the heart of Najaf. Assuming that al-Hakim was still inside, many had thought he would have been protected from the explosion by the shrine's massive western wall and its huge door, the Bab-e-Kibbleh, which remained standing. But when the bomb went off, the 64-year-old cleric was outside the shrine and about to get into...
...Iraq in which international civil servants are murdered is not a success--which added to the urgency of finding out who was responsible for the Baghdad bomb. A hitherto unknown body called the Armed Vanguard of Muhammad's Second Army claimed responsibility, but it was simply impossible to know if the group even existed, let alone whether it had carried out the attack. In the days following the explosion, everyone from top Administration officials to Pentagon brass to the cottage industry of experts on terrorism to coffeehouse and bazaar gossips in Baghdad itself offered opinions on the perpetrators...
...SENTENCED. Muhammad el-Omari, Yassine Lahnach, Rachid Jalil, Hassan Tawsi, to death for their roles in five suicide bomb attacks that killed 45 people, including 12 bombers, in May; in Casablanca. The four are members of outlawed terrorist group Salafia Jihadia, which targets U.S. interests and Jews in Morocco. Four Spaniards and three French nationals died in the attacks...