Islamistischer Terrorismus

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Aussies al-Qaida terror tourists
Mark Dunn
15jan04

THE Federal Government knew Australians were training in Afghanistan terror camps for ten years before the 2001 attacks on the US, a Muslim cleric has claimed.
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Radical Muslim groups getting more vocal
By Shefali Rekhi

LAST month, Indonesia's Defenders of Islam Front (FPI) set up an 'immorality watch' squad to bring to book perpetrators of vice.

Over a hundred supporters of Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir rallied in Jakarta and picketed the Supreme Court, urging judges to overturn the immigration violation ruling that keeps him behind bars for three years.
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Al-Qaeda launches online terrorist manual

Jason Burke, chief reporter
Sunday January 18, 2004
The Observer

Al-Qaeda has issued a chilling new call to arms to recruits who remain undetected by security agencies. In a terrorist manual published on the internet, Osama bin Laden says: 'After Iraq and Afghanistan will come the Crusader invasion of Saudi Arabia. All fighters all over the world must be ready.'
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U.S. Eyes UAE Banks in Terror Money Probe
By ANWAR FARUQI
Associated Press Writer

January 17, 2004, 12:24 PM EST


DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Banks in this financial hub of the Arab world remain a key focus in the investigation into terror funding despite moves to tighten reporting rules, freeze accounts and control informal money transfers, U.S. and Arab officials told The Associated Press.
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Muslim Radicalism Flowers in French Town
Sun Jan 18, 2:03 PM ET

By ELAINE GANLEY, Associated Press Writer

VENISSIEUX, France - Clean and green, this well-kept Lyon suburb has for three years running won the national competition for "Flowered Cities of France."
But Venissieux also has a macabre claim to fame. Long plagued by urban violence, it is emerging as a breeding ground for Islamic radicals, some implicated in an alleged terrorist network that authorities say was preparing a chemical attack against Russian targets.
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Car bomb targets French Muslim leader

Jon Henley in Paris
Monday January 19, 2004
The Guardian

Hours after up to 40,000 Muslims marched against a planned ban on Islamic headscarves in state schools, a carbomb attack on a newly appointed prefect of Algerian origin dramatically underlined the scale of France's problem in assimilating its immigrant Muslim community.

Aissa Dermouche wurde als Präfekt bestellt - und hat sich fuer ein Kopftuchverbot ausgesprochen - tjo und dafuer wird einem jetzt nach dem leben getrachtet...
Naja daran sind ja nur Armut und Apartheid schuld :bonk:

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Islamic exile ordered bombings from Oslo, claims CIA
By Damien McElroy, Foreign Correspondent
(Filed: 18/01/2004)

Internet messages sent by an exiled Islamic radical allegedly ordering suicide bomb attacks against coalition troops in Iraq have been intercepted by American intelligence officials.
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Die norwegische Version des Kaplans von Koeln hat als Asylant in Norwegen wohl solche langeweile das er meint Krieg spielen zu muessen....

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Bush seeks quick ruling on U.S. detainees

By ANNE GEARAN
The Associated Press
1/17/2004, 5:33 p.m. ET


WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration is asking the Supreme Court to decide by summer whether national security justifies detention of American citizens indefinitely and without charges.
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How Clinton Let Al-Qaeda Go
By Richard Shultz Jr.
Weekly Standard | January 19, 2004


SINCE 9/11, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has repeatedly declared that the United States is in a new kind of war, one requiring new military forces to hunt down and capture or kill terrorists. In fact, for some years, the Department of Defense has gone to the trouble of selecting and training an array of Special Operations Forces, whose forte is precisely this. One president after another has invested resources to hone lethal "special mission units" for offensive--that is, preemptive--counterterrorism strikes, with the result that these units are the best of their kind in the world. While their activities are highly classified, two of them--the Army's Delta Force and the Navy's SEAL Team 6--have become the stuff of novels and movies.
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