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...grabbed by a variety of other hands. The deadly business of Hamas is run by its shadowy military wing. Only the most dedicated and disciplined are allowed into the tight little cells that carry out attacks. Perhaps 200-men strong, the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigade, named for a Muslim preacher who died leading a revolt against Jewish immigration in the 1930s, does the dirty work, plotting actions against Israeli troops and civilians. Hamas operations include kidnappings of soldiers and drive-by shootings, but those exploding human bombs are the spearhead of the group's campaign...
...Poso by Chief Security Minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Dec. 5 and a pledge of several thousand more troops did little to reassure Christians. "What is really needed is for the security forces to go in and disarm these outsiders," says S. Pelima, a civil servant and Protestant preacher based in the regional capital of Palu who served on a reconciliation team of community and religious leaders set up by the Governor last year. Since the May 2000 eruption, he says, the team had managed to contain the violence between the two communities to a few killings a month...
...such preacher, Abu Hamza al-Masri, arrived in 1981, having left one eye and both hands in Afghanistan. He was granted British citizenship in 1985, and his mosque in Finsbury Park, tucked among Victorian row houses one tube stop from Arsenal's soccer stadium, has become famous worldwide for preaching jihad. Moussaoui, the Courtailler brothers and Beghal all attended prayers there. Beghal is said also to be a follower of Abu Qatada, a radical who preached jihad from a community center on Baker Street and whose bank account, allegedly with $270,000 in it, was frozen by the Bank...
...teacher, spent time away. They talked about God for two hours that evening, and for longer on subsequent nights. Then the visitor arranged for a rare luxury?a car to drive Granny He to worship in someone's home. There, she and seven other believers sat facing the preacher. He said the Jesus of the Bible is the old one. The new Jesus has come, and she will destroy the earth. They sang hymns that the new savior had written to the tunes of familiar revolutionary ditties like Communist Party, My Loving Mama. Granny He returned four more times...
...celebrated art galleries in New York City and one in Tokyo. A brilliant art scholar as well as a skillful dealer, Wildenstein was also devoted to horse racing, owning prominent stables and was named six times as France's leading owner. DIED. HOWARD FINSTER, 84, a fiery Baptist preacher and prominent American self-taught artist; in Rome, Georgia. Finster used his folk art, which ranged from paintings that hung in the Library of Congress to album covers for rock bands like R.E.M. and Talking Heads, to spread his evangelical Christian message. DIED. JOHN PLUMB, 90, natty British historian...