Word: yahya
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...Take the case of Isabel Yahya, who posed for a photomontage by Indonesian artist Davy Linggar in September. In the painting, the model, 30, is discreetly nude. An angry mob from the Islamic Defenders Front, a vigilante group known for attacking bars and discos, demanded that the work, on display at an indoor exhibition in Jakarta, be taken down and complained to the police. The authorities have charged Yahya with indecency under the criminal code; she faces a potential one year in prison, but the alleged offense would be punishable by up to seven years' jail under the new pornography...
...Ryan Crocker, U.S. ambassador to Islamabad, has noted his "concern" over the renewed strength of the jihadi groups, which may now find it easier to attract recruits and to wield political influence among ordinary Kashmiris. Still, the militants worry about another crackdown by Musharraf. As Lashkar-e-Toiba spokesman Yahya Mujahid told TIME, "We fear the government will toe the American line and curb our humanitarian work." And if that happens, says Mujahid, "The Kashmiris will die of hunger...
...they identified the three suicide bombers who killed 20 people in Bali on Oct. 1. That led to a massive surveillance operation in which they trailed scores of suspects believed to have links to the dead men. One of these individuals was a 27-year-old Indonesian calling himself Yahya Antoni. A police source told TIME that at 5 a.m. on Nov. 8, the day before the raid in which Azahari died, Yahya emerged from the Batu house. Having tapped Yahya's mobile phone, authorities believed he was on his way to meet Azahari's suspected chief accomplice, fellow Malaysian...
...having turned out several militants. Still, his former teachers and classmates swear that he was far from an angry budding young terrorist at I.S.A. They remember him as someone who regularly attended an interfaith group and spoke with "the voice of reason" whenever schoolmates launched into anti-Israel tirades. Yahya Fouz, a former classmate, says, "I remember him telling me that, yes, there is only one God, but the beauty is the fact that people are able to take numerous paths to find him." Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, unfortunately, found trouble, and lots of it, on the path he chose...
...says Abu Yahya, 28, a British-born veteran of 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...