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...form or another and in countries from the Mediterranean to the Pacific, they have existed for decades. But until recently, the groups conducted local campaigns against local targets. Algerian organizations like the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), for example, focused their operations on the hated, secular Algerian government. In a similar vein, terrorist organizations in Pakistan concentrated on pressing the government to adopt Islamic law and waging a guerrilla war in Kashmir...
...said that while there are several instances in secular life where Americans are confronted with religion—for instance, “In God We Trust” is printed on all American currency—“many of these cases have no impact on human life...
...journalist and lawyer who was among the first to represent minorities in the old Austro-Hungarian Empire - and ends in the present day. But the focus is on the years just before World War II. With a storyteller's eye, Judit describes an unlikely mixture of worldly and parochial, secular and devout, in 1930s Budapest. Her father Imre was at the top of his class in a private school but unable to attend university because of restrictions on Jewish admission. As a result, he immersed himself in photography, developing his own darkroom techniques and leaving behind a striking black...
...organizational nexus that ties al-Qaeda to Baghdad. The group has existed in various forms since the 1990s, when its leader, an Islamic cleric named Najmadin Fatah who goes by the nom de guerre Mullah Krekar, took inspiration from Afghan mujahedin to launch a rebellion against the two feuding secular factions that divvy up Iraqi Kurdistan. Krekar, who carries a Norwegian passport, is a veteran of the mujahedin known for his ruthlessness. "He is not normal," says a Kurdish intelligence official. "He enjoys killing people...
...telling allegation, made again last week by New York Times columnist William Safire, is that Saddam secretly runs Ansar. According to Safire's unsourced pronouncement, a Saddam intelligence operative and a senior bin Laden agent helped coordinate an assault by Ansar militants to assassinate the secular, pro-American Kurdish leadership last year. Both, he claimed, were captured when Kurdish forces put down the revolt. Safire also fingered Saddam's agents as the men behind Ansar's crude attempts to make poison weapons that drew Pentagon attention...