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...Indian police, who identified the victim only by his first name, Nasir, say he's the founder of the Gujarat Muslim Revenge Force, an extremist group started after Hindus killed some 2,000 Muslims in western India last year. Police blame the group for two bombings in Bombay last month in which 58 people died, along with a bus bomb in July and a train explosion in March that claimed a total of 15 lives. Intelligence officers say Nasir was trained and indoctrinated by Muslim extremists in Dubai and Pakistan, and remained a linkman to Pakistani terrorists. Nasir's brief...
...Bombay's terror problem didn't die with Nasir. For a start, police have linked him with only three of the seven blasts that have killed 74 people in India's financial capital since December 2002. Police and intelligence agents also privately admit that this "mastermind" was head of just one of four or five Muslim terrorist cells operating in Bombay. "It would be naive," says Javed Ahmad, the city's second most senior policeman, "to think there aren't any more modules or men around...
...Kashmir. Police believe Hanif was recruited by Lashkar while working as an electrician at a hotel in Dubai and returned to Chimatpada in 2002 as a hardened extremist trained in the use of explosives. Police suspect that Lashkar operatives introduced him to Ansari and to two other men, called Nasir and Zahid, who helped in the planning and financing of the blasts?and who remain at large...
...Jazeera and rival satellite channels did cover the celebrations that broke out once Saddam's regime crumbled, but TV watchers were not interpreting it as viewers did in the West. "The people don't really know what they're doing," says Amman sociologist Sari Nasir, explaining away the joy. "It's collective behavior." Others expressed humiliation at the walloping defeat of the Iraqi forces, as well as scorn for those who welcomed foreign tanks into the city. "To see our dignity wiped out like that, I am ashamed to be an Arab," says Cairo physician Khaled Ragab...
Special Republican Guard 15,000-25,000 Largely recruited from Saddam's al-Bu Nasir tribe and other loyal groups, SRG troops are scattered throughout Baghdad and well-trained in urban combat. Its units protect Saddam and top Baath Party officials...