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...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...
Anyone who has watched Law & Order knows that an arrest is only a beginning. A lot can happen along the journey between suspicion and guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. But in the case of the Buffalo Five--accused al-Qaeda cell members Sahim Alwan, Yahya Goba, Shafal Mosed, Yasein Taher and Faysal Galab--law-enforcement and homeland-security officials can be forgiven for celebrating after Act I. This time, it seems everything went as scripted...
...conducting an anti-government campaign. MIDDLE EAST No Withdrawal Israel canceled talks with Palestinians aimed at implementing a plan for an Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian-controlled areas of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The meeting between Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and Palestinian Interior Minister Abdel Razak Yahya was abandoned after violence hit the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Defense Ministry said. Hours before the ministers were to meet, Israel sent its forces to foil what it claimed was an attempt to bring arms into Gaza by sea. Four Palestinian civilians were killed. INDIA Wanted: U.S. Exec A court...
...British lawyer Anjem Choudary, 40, a British passport means very little. For a true Muslim, he says, "a British passport is no more than a travel document." Abu Yahya, 26, a Londoner and veteran of military training camps in Kashmir and Afghanistan, agrees: "Our allegiance is solely to Allah and his messenger, not to the Queen and country. Nationality...means nothing...
Choudary and Yahya belong to the extremist Islamic group al-Muhajiroun, and though they speak for only a tiny fraction of Britain's 2 million Muslims, their views received grim publicity last week with the news that three British-born Muslims had been killed in Kabul--allegedly in a U.S. bombing raid on a Taliban compound--after volunteering for the jihad...