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...Fazlullah, a 34-year-old cleric who once earned a living ferrying passengers and goods across the Swat River, got his start studying under Maulana Sufi Mohammed, a religious teacher who founded the Tehrik Nifaz Shariat-e-Muhammadi (Movement for the Enforcement of Islamic Law) in the 1990s. In 2002 the organization was banned, and Mohammed was thrown in jail for mobilizing thousands of his followers to fight American forces in Afghanistan. Fazlullah, who by then was Mohammed's son-in-law, also went to Afghanistan to fight. Radicalized by the experience, and by his short stint in an Afghan...
...Fazlullah, a local student who once earned a living ferrying passengers and goods across the Swat river, got his start studying under Maulana Sufi Muhammad, a religious teacher who founded the Tehrik Nifaz Shariat-e-Muhammaidi (Movement for the Enforcement of Islamic Law) in the 1990s. In 2002, TNSM was banned, and Muhammad thrown in jail for mobilizing thousands of his followers to fight American forces in Afghanistan. Fazlullah, by then his son-in-law, continued the campaign for Sharia using the platform of his popular radio show...
...northern border with China, and in the central city of Multan, hundreds of religious students blocked roads with burning tires and chanted "Down With Musharraf." Clerics at several radical mosques are denouncing what they see as law enforcement agencies attacking fellow Muslims. The banned militant group Tehrik Nifaz-Shariat-e-Mohammadi has used FM radio stations in a district north of Peshawar to instruct its followers to carry out jihad against the government, as has a radical cleric in the northern district of Swat...
...atrocities like the Moscow theater siege in October 2002 and the Beslan school massacre last September. But Maskhadov rejected Basayev's terror tactics, and Basayev despised Maskhadov's calls for peace talks. Last week, the Chechen resistance quickly announced a new president, Abdul Khalim Saydulayev, the head of the Shariat, or Islamic court. In his mid-30s, Saydulayev is virtually unknown. Moscow and pro-Russian Chechens dismiss him as a Basayev puppet. Some Kremlin officials now predict the slow death of the guerrilla movement. A few veterans in the hills may well decide to make their peace with the authorities...
...Signs of Afghanistan's latest war are evident all around Jalalabad: Tightened security, checkpoints on roads, pick-up trucks loaded with Taliban fighters and their ammunition, electricity blackouts and a strictly-enforced night-time curfew are some of the more obvious ones. The official Radio Shariat, its airtime already crowded with Taliban propaganda, has started broadcasting patriotic battle poetry. As if the scars of 23 years of fighting, triggered by the communist revolution in April 1978 and fuelled by the Soviet invasion of December 1979, weren't enough, the Afghans are now entering another indefinite round of suffering...