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...that remark political opportunism, or at least exaggeration. "The threat is real and constant, but it has not grown significantly higher of late," remarks one French counterterrorism official. "There was a little bit of grandstanding in some of his comments." Still, there is reason for concern. An offshoot of Algeria's ultraviolent Armed Islamic Group, the GSPC had largely waged jihad at home against the Algiers regime, but now appears set on taking its terrorism abroad, officials say. Confidential French intelligence reports reviewed by Time confirm the GSPC has decided within the last six months to internationalize its fight...
...logical offshoot of this initiative must be kept in mind. As access to academic literature is made easier, it is likely that American universities—and by deduction American industries—will no longer enjoy an obvious advantage of access when compared to other countries. As local students in many developing countries are granted access, physically studying in America, while still advantageous, becomes less so. In this situation, it is also more likely that underprivileged academicians—hitherto without access to Western libraries— will produce more world-class research...
...Alas, the cessation of sectarian hostilities was too good to last. A day after the tragedy, a brief gun battle broke out between Iraqi security forces on the bridge and some Sunni insurgents in Adhamiya. And al-Qaeda's Iraqi offshoot, led by Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, claimed credit for an earlier rocket attack on Kadhimiya, the Shi'ite district on the other side of the bridge. Drive-by shootings at Sunni mosques in southern Iraq last Friday suggested scapegoating by some Shi'ites. And calls for a peace march after the joint prayers in Baghdad proved futile: not enough...
...lives to groups whose zeal and camaraderie offer them a sense of purpose. There they are talent-spotted by jihadists for deeper indoctrination - and finally groomed for murder. In Leeds, the nexus for their slide over the edge appears to have been a youth outreach project that was an offshoot of the government-funded Hamara ("Ours," in Urdu) community center located in the rundown Beeston area. Khan did youth work there, as did another man, Naveed Fiaz, 29, who was arrested last week. Hussain and Tanweer regularly attended the youth center and played soccer there. Khan was described...
...connection with the Identity movement. The Identity churches stem more directly from the preaching before and after World War II of Gerald L.K. Smith, a notorious anti-Semite. It was Smith's West Coast operative, Wesley Swift, who founded the church that Butler now leads. Later a Swift offshoot in Mariposa, Calif., led by retired Army Colonel William Potter Gale, produced the newsletter Identity and solidified the ideology...