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AP: Afghan Camps Lined to Recent Terror

Monday November 24, 2003 1:16 AM


By PAUL HAVEN

Associated Press Writer

RISHKHOR, Afghanistan (AP) - From Bali to Istanbul, New York to Casablanca, the ferocious chain of terror that has choked the world since Sept. 11 has stemmed from a single source - camps like this one just south of Kabul, where thousands of young men were indoctrinated in Osama bin Laden's brutal vision.

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War on Terror: Holy War 101
Next wave: Rumsfeld frets that radical Islamic schools are training a new army of jihadists—that ‘the harder we work, the behinder we get.’ He’s right to worry

By Ron Moreau, Sami Yousafzai and Zahid Hussain
NEWSWEEK


Dec. 1 issue — Abdul Bari’s school day begins at 4 a.m. The freckle-faced, outgoing 9-year-old, an Afghan poppy farmer’s son, wakes up on the tile floor he shares with four dozen other students at the Jamia Uloom Islamia religious academy, in the untamed mountains of Pakistan’s tribal areas. After morning prayer services, he fixes tea for the older boys and himself, eating a bit of bread before classes start at daybreak. Students spend most of the day reciting the Qur’an; memorizing every one of its 6,666 verses is the main requirement for graduation. Still, this madrassa is the only formal schooling most of these boys will ever have. So they learn civics from a white-bearded scholar named Amanullah, 65, who teaches them about the Taliban. “There was a real Islamic regime,” the old man says. “They fixed 25 years of problems in no time, using Islamic laws.”
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