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...world's jihadists, Iraq is the new Afghanistan - that would be Afghanistan twenty years ago, when young Muslim warriors from around the world flocked in to help fight the "infidel" Soviet invader, and in the process founded al-Qaeda. Bin Laden's group on Monday broadcast a new tape urging Islamists everywhere to make their way to Iraq and wage war on American forces there. U.S. forces have captured foreign jihadists during sweeps north of Baghdad, and it was reported this week that up to 3,000 Saudi Islamists may have gone to Iraq to fight the U.S. Tuesday...
...Qaeda, the U.S. occupation of Iraq presents a growth opportunity commensurate with that offered by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan three decades ago. Then, as now, the presence of "infidel" troops in a Muslim land aroused the ire of young Muslim militants around the world, and many of those that volunteered to go to Afghanistan to join the anti-Soviet jihad later became the organizational and political core of al-Qaeda. Now, the movement is hoping to repeat the experience, albeit under more trying circumstances - this time, the volunteers won't have the support of the CIA and the Saudis...
...however, is reserved for Prime Minister Erdogan, whose Justice and Development Party was founded on Islamic principles. The move to shut down the family's profitable utilities stung. "What kind of a Muslim are you, man?" Uzan told a crowd in Bursa after the government seized the utilities. "You infidel!" The speech was subsequently re-broadcast on Uzan-owned television stations, earning Cem another libel suit - this time from Erdogan, who is seeking $600,000 in damages. Last week a prosecutor charged Uzan with insulting the government, a crime under Turkish law punishable by up to six years in prison...
...still at war," said Lieut. General Ricardo Sanchez, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq. As if to drive the point home, al-Jazeera broadcast an audiotape purported to have been made by Saddam, saying he is in Iraq and promising "days of hardship and trouble for the infidel invaders." Iraqis seen to be cooperating with Americans are also under fire. In the worst such attack, a bomb exploded at a graduation ceremony for new Iraqi police in Ramadi, killing seven and injuring more than...
...While rallying old soldiers, the Taliban are also recruiting new members, targeting disgruntled young Afghans in refugee camps in Chaman, Quetta, Peshawar and Karachi. The appeals play on pride and alienation, charging that the Americans are denigrating Islam and Pashtuns. "You are seeing the picture of a dirty Jewish infidel searching the body of a Muslim woman," reads a flyer found in Chaman, which shows a Western soldier frisking a burqa-clad female. "If a Muslim does not display his feelings by defending his faith and honor, then he is not a Muslim nor an Afghan...