Word: overthrowing
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...disappeared). Recently questioned by police, Abubakar was released after two days and continues to teach at his religious school in the town of Solo. In an interview with Time, the soft-spoken 63-year-old vigorously denies any connection with a terrorist network. "I am not advocating the overthrow of any government," Abubakar says. "What I want to see is a government committed to Islam." He blames Mahathir, the U.S. and a worldwide Jewish conspiracy for his problems (see interview). "This is just a political game," he says of the charges. "Jemaah Islamiah is an invention by Mahathir to instill...
...That tough antiterrorist line has continued. Since September, as part of the global crackdown on extremist Islamic groups, Malaysian police have arrested some 50 alleged members of the KMM, which they say sought the violent overthrow of the government for the purposes of installing a fundamentalist Islamic administration. Despite the arrests, as the Malaysian official notes, even with new, stringent surveillance of visitors and tightened-up immigration checks, it's nearly impossible to track what he estimates are "several hundred" al-Qaeda-linked businessmen, bankers, traders and tourists - many of them Arab - who pass through or live in the country...
...Aziz, had established branches in all nine states in peninsular Malaysia. KMM members were told that the group was conducting militia-style training to protect Nik Aziz's fundamentalist Islamic Party of Malaysia in the event of a government crackdown. But top KMM leaders were actively planning the violent overthrow of the country's government in favor of an Islamic regime, police...
...timely charm offensive, of course, because the Bush administration has made no secret of the fact that it considers Saddam's overthrow an integral part of making the world safe for America. Washington may not have been able to prove any Iraq link to the September 11 terror attacks, but it has lately begun to use Saddam's delinquency over weapons of mass destruction to beat the drums of war. "The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons," the President warned. Following his warning...
...IRAN Dissidents' Trial Tehran's Revolutionary Court began a secret hearing in the trial of 15 dissidents accused of plotting to overthrow the Islamic state. Most of the accused are writers and university lecturers who supported the liberal Religious Nationalist Alliance. The case, conducted by the hard-line judiciary, contravenes Iran's Constitution, which requires political prisoners to be tried in open courts with a jury. Defense lawyers say they were refused permission to study the indictment or to meet with their clients. Six of the accused are being held in a military detention center...