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Religious movements often originate in a dream. It was said in Arabia in the 1800s that a man in Najd province dreamed that his body produced flames that spread far and wide, consuming desert camps and towns alike. He told his dream to a sheik, who said the man's son would found a new faith that the desert Arabs would adopt. And so it transpired--although the founder was ultimately the man's grandson: Mohammed ibn Abd Wahhab...
...training camps in Afghanistan and one of the leaders of this Islamist group, "the men are magnificent." He professes equal admiration for two others, both acquaintances: Omar Khan Sharif, one of the two British suicide bombers who blew up a crowded Tel Aviv bar last April, and Omar Saeed Sheik, the British citizen accused of murdering journalist Daniel Pearl...
...suspected of influencing young men to join the jihad. Many of the MAGNIFICENT 19 stickers plastered on lampposts and walls across Britain have been scratched off by authorities, but police rarely disrupt al-Muhajiroun's stalls or meetings. Last month police raided the homes of the group's leaders, Sheik Omar Bakri Muhammad and Anjem Choudary, but both men remain at liberty...
...Mosul, seeking sanctuary with Bedouin loyalists he hoped would defend him to the death. Locals have approached U.S. troops with so many unsubstantiated reports of Saddam's presence in the area that commanders refer to them as Elvis sightings. "He's out there in the desert," a powerful sheik in the town of Sinjar, 60 miles west of Mosul, told Lieut. Colonel Henry Arnold. "He's with the Bedouins...
Operating on intelligence more reliable than the sheik's tip, members of Task Force 20, the military's special-operations unit charged with nabbing high-value targets in Iraq, quietly descended on an airstrip near Mosul last Wednesday--backed by MC-130 combat Talon planes, modified humvees and so-called little-bird attack helicopters--to prepare for a potential assault. A battalion from the 101st Airborne Division, based in Sinjar, was on alert to seal off escape routes leading to the Syrian border. But that day Saddam was not to be found. "We shoot a lot of dry holes...