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...Today, southern Bangladesh has become a haven for hundreds of jihadis on the lam. They find natural allies in Muslim guerrillas from India hiding out across the border, and in Muslim Rohingyas, tens of thousands of whom fled the ethnic and religious suppression of the Burmese military junta in the late 1970s and 1980s. Many Rohingyas are long-term refugees, but some are trained to cause trouble back home in camps tolerated by a succession of Bangladeshi governments. The original facilities date back to 1975, making them Asia's oldest jihadi training camps. And one former Burmese guerrilla who visits...
...Qaeda supporters, and some Middle East observers, believe U.S. counter-terrorism agents are behind the cyber attack. The goal, they suspect, is to turn away sympathizers who tire of endless changes to the "jihadi" URLs, and also to eliminate any possibility that such sites could be used by al-Qaeda members to communicate with each other via secret signals or hidden encrypted files. A U.S. counter-terrorism official confirms that Washington has an active campaign to exploit al-Qaeda's use of the Internet, and that the CIA monitors al-Qaeda web sites and those who use them...
...India's "enemy." Although he has repeatedly said that he does not want war, the Prime Minister has sound strategic reasons for ratcheting up the rhetoric. Since Sept. 11, he has found the international community more sympathetic to the idea of India waging its own war on terror against jihadis in the contended state of Jammu and Kashmir, where many of them have been inserted by Pakistan. And it plays well for India to keep the pot boiling: New Delhi can claim a victim's solidarity with the U.S., avoid addressing the awkward issue of its heavy-handed rule...
...Delhi was considering abandoning a treaty that ensures the free flow of three rivers including the Indus, which originate in Indian-administered Kashmir and run through the mountains to irrigate Pakistan's northeastern bread basket. A second option is surgical strikes by the air force and commando teams on jihadi training camps in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir. The third is a pounding of Pakistani posts along the LOC in Kashmir followed by a limited invasion to push it back a few kilometers and allow India to take and block passes used by militants crossing into its territory...
...Laden's network was closely monitoring the MILF as a larger and better organized vehicle for Islamic revolution. In the second half of the '90s the MILF, under the leadership of its chairman Hashim Salamat, was also developing its own contacts with Islamist and overtly jihadi groups across Southeast Asia and beyond. Indeed, today the MILF has emerged as a central player in the perennially murky web of underground Islamism in Southeast Asia. Since at least 1996 the MILF jungle camps are believed to have played host to several hundred jihadis from the Middle East, Pakistan, Indonesia and Malaysia. This...