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...killed eight and left 35 injured. A senior Iraqi source tells TIME that the suicide bombings appear to be carried out by foreigners, not by Saddam loyalists. From the remains of such bombers, the source says, authorities have determined that most were Yemeni, some were Syrian, and a few Saudi Arabian...
...Administration official continues. "They now feel that the only course open to them is violence. That, I hope, is a sign of desperation and not of strength." And the murder attempts might backfire on the militants, the official adds, goading Musharraf into a crackdown similar to the one in Saudi Arabia, where 600 suspects were arrested after suicide bombings against foreign residential compounds in Riyadh killed 35 people last May. "Pakistan is now fighting its own very clear war against terrorism," the official says. "It's not just helping...
...these mujahedin are foreign. An unknown number of passionate but untrained young Muslims from all over the Middle East have been slipping into Iraq, eager for a chance to fight Americans in an Islamic country. According to U.S. intelligence officials, the men tend to come from places like Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Yemen and Syria, whipped up by enthusiastic imams back home. Once across the border, they head to mosques to link up with local resistance cells. U.S. officials believe that most of them then carry out missions under the orders of Saddam loyalists. "They use the fundamentalists as cannon fodder...
...strategy of launching terrorist attacks directed at other Arabs [Nov. 24]. While it was comforting to kid ourselves that al-Qaeda was on the run, the terrorists are proving to be much more resilient and intelligent than anyone imagined. They have now taken aim at pro-Western allies like Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Meanwhile, in Iraq the bombings are becoming more focused. It is time for the U.S. to stop playing the kingmaker in a country about which it knows very little. SRINIVASAN SADAGOPAN Coimbatore, India...
...Weinfeld, who attended a Zionist high school in Montreal, is moderating the relaunched dialogue series with Nayla R. Hamdi ’05, an economics and psychology concentrator in Lowell House. She grew up in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Switzerland, transferring to Harvard from the American University in Cairo at the beginning of her sophomore year, and says she wants to better understand pro-Israel positions after being steeped in the opposing viewpoint throughout her childhood...