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...begun bombing bars and beating women who go out without being fully covered. According to a Western intelligence report, the Saudis are spending about $1 million a year in Tanzania to build new mosques and buy influence with the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi Party. "We get our funds from Yemen and Saudi Arabia," says Mohammed Madi, a fundamentalist activist. "Officially the money is used to buy medicine, but in reality the money is given to us to support our work and buy guns...
...resist the U.S. invasion, but allied forces encountered only a fraction of that number on the road to Baghdad. An Iraqi intelligence source working with the CIA says the number of foreign militants active inside Iraq is in "the low hundreds," most of them drawn from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria, Pakistan and Afghanistan. U.S. military officials in Iraq acknow0ledge that they have failed to bottle up the southern and western borders with Saudi Arabia and Syria, which infiltrators can easily cross. Lieut. General Ricardo Sanchez, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, told reporters last week that because of combat...
...arrest of the alleged terrorist mastermind Hambali by Thai police [WORLD, Aug. 25] demonstrates that police work in Pakistan, Yemen and now Thailand can result in the capture of terrorist bigwigs. It's hard to avoid the thought that the Bush Administration's preferred policy of war is largely show business. Police investigations are dull, while war is flashy. And politicians are eager to show they're doing something, not just sitting around. PAUL KUNINO LYNCH Katoomba, Australia...
SMUGGLERS' HAVEN The full border with Yemen was not demarcated until June 2000. Illegal immigration and smuggling of explosives are common in the rugged, isolated mountains...
...There have been a number of al-Qaeda inspired terror strikes since September 11 2001 - in Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, Morocco, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and possibly even Iraq. Further plots have been disrupted in Europe, the Arab world and possibly the U.S. But the movement's fortunes, over the past two years, cannot be judged by the number of attacks it has launched, any more than the success of President Bush's "war on terror" can be measured by the number of al-Qaeda operatives captured or killed...