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...were aware of the situation on the ground from a much earlier stage than they acknowledged. He'll claim they acknowledged to him that the region faced a threat of Islamic terrorism. Here he's referring to the fact that more than 1,000 fighters from all over the Arab and Muslim world came to help the Bosnian Muslims against the Serbs. They called themselves "mujahedeen," and many of them were itinerant veterans of the anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan. Serb leaders at the time described their fight as one against terrorism, and even today pro-Milosevic propagandists...
...installing a fundamentalist Islamic administration. Despite the arrests, as the Malaysian official notes, even with new, stringent surveillance of visitors and tightened-up immigration checks, it's nearly impossible to track what he estimates are "several hundred" al-Qaeda-linked businessmen, bankers, traders and tourists - many of them Arab - who pass through or live in the country...
...Noted "To be very frank with you, how can we defend America?" CROWN PRINCE ABDULLAH, Saudi Arabian royal, explaining the Saudi regime's concern about America's credibility in the Arab world...
...thing that can be said about this national tragedy it is that it brought men, women and children of all races, except for Arabs, closer together. Arab-Americans have been placed in the awkward position of having to constantly prove their patriotism. They fly American flags from every possible location—car antennas, shop windows, on top of other American flags. The whole thing smacks of a conspiracy by the American Flag Production Industry. The larger the ethnic group that fears for their safety, the more American flags get sold. This explains the sudden abundance...
...interior troops in Chechnya, and three colonels. Conflicting versions emerged about the cause of the crash, including a missile fired by separatists, sabotage and an accident. The second chopper was downed by separatists? automatic weapons, and caught fire when it landed. All 15 people aboard survived. LEBANON Arab Summit Interior Ministers from 17 Arab countries held a two-day meeting to discuss a common response to crime and terrorism. Delegates called for clearer definitions, condemning what they called Israeli "state terrorism" against the Palestinians. AFGHANISTAN Setback to Peace Interim leader Hamid Karzai?s appeal for more international troops proved timely...