Word: separatist
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...increasing signs of a very real terrorist threat and much fresher links to Osama bin Laden's organization. TIME has uncovered evidence linking two Palestinians and one Jordanian, who are a part of an al-Qaeda cell, with members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the largest separatist rebel faction in the country. The three were picked up last Nov. 23, their arrests barely making the newspapers. All three are being held at Camp Creme in Manila, officially for violating immigration laws. At least one member of this cell, Ahmed Abed Uthman Masrie, according to high-ranking law enforcement...
...much to disagree with there. But while common purpose was being espoused in Brussels, Umberto Bossi, head of Italy's once-separatist Northern League and part of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's governing coalition, was characterizing the E.U. as a "Stalinist European super state, the Soviet Union of the West." Meanwhile in Germany, the sputtering economic engine of Europe, the exigencies of an election campaign are re-intensifying the lively tradition of blaming Brussels. Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, having quashed a European Commission warning letter over his government's mounting deficit, appears ready to wage his domestic campaign against...
...Russia sees the entire Chechen separatist guerrilla movement as indistinguishable from al-Qaida, and won't appreciate the distinction being drawn by the Georgians between the small al-Qaida element they intend to pursue and the bulk of the Chechen fighters who will, presumably, be left unmolested unless they challenge Georgian authorities. But Moscow's chagrin is ultimately fueled by the profound strategic consequences of the arrival of U.S. forces in what has traditionally been Russia's backyard...
...While the scope and reach of Malaysia's terror network is alarming, what is more surprising is that fundamentalist and separatist movements throughout Southeast Asia have been funded and armed by al-Qaeda operatives, sometimes without the guerrillas themselves knowing the identity of their backers. Equally troubling is the fact that the al-Qaeda terror network is linked with not only extremist Islamic groups but a host of criminal syndicates. Kuala Lumpur and the other governments can no longer blame foreigners, especially Arabs, for their domestic terrorist problems. The money might come from abroad, but the extremism and criminal support...
Frenchman Christian Blanc has spent his career doing what most people try to avoid: finding tough but necessary solutions to explosive problems. In the late '80s, as chief government negotiator in New Caledonia, Blanc brokered a peace accord that ended years of bloody separatist violence. Later, as head of the Paris public-transport authority, he battled unruly unions and a waffling Socialist government to end an era of incessant, paralyzing strikes. As president of Air France from 1993-97, Blanc brought the airline from the brink of bankruptcy to profitability - and partial privatization - by alternatively cajoling and compelling rebellious staff...