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Afghanistan
Taleban deny capture of US troops
BBC
Afghanistan's ruling Taleban have denied that any US special forces are operating in areas under their control - or that any American soldiers have been taken captive. The statement comes shortly after Qatar's Al-Jazeera television reported that Afghan security forces had arrested three American soldiers and two Afghan guides in western Afghanistan, near the border with Iran. "It is totally wrong. We deny this news that they have come to our areas," Mullah Obaidullah Akhund, the Taleban Defence Minister told Reuters in Kabul. However, Al-Jazeera says it stands by its original report which has been reconfirmed by its Islamabad correspondent, Reuters news agency reports.
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Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/29/2001 04:08 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Chaos in Afghanistan
Guardian Unlimited Observer
In Khost last week, local tribal chiefs ordered their tribesmen to obey the Taliban's request for 10,000 men. The tribesmen, who all have guns, turned out armed only with sticks and asked the Taliban for weapons. The governor, Maulana Abdul Rauf Arif, was too unsure of their allegiance to hand any out. Elsewhere along the Pakistani frontier, local people in Paktia and Paktika provinces have told the Taliban that unless the Arab fighters associated with Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda group are withdrawn from their towns and villages they will refuse to obey any of the government's orders.

About 50 Arab families have been evicted from their longstanding bases around the eastern city of Sorobi, according to refugees coming from Afghanistan. The Taliban have been forced to set up roadblocks to prevent Afghans fleeing major cities - in direct contravention of their orders. According to refugees, hundreds of people were yesterday being stopped at one checkpoint set up near Pul-e-Sharqi prison, a grim complex built by east Europeans on the road east of Kabul. Many of those fleeing are trying to escape the press gangs to which the hardline Islamic militia have resorted to fill the ranks of their army.
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MAULANA ABDUL RAUF ARIFTaliban
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/29/2001 05:12 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Hit on Bin Laden bases expected within days
The Independent (UK)
The US will strike at Osama bin Laden's supply bases "in days rather than weeks" a senior opposition leader in northern Afghanistan, in daily contact with Washington, predicted yesterday. Abdullah Abdullah, foreign minister of the opposition Northern Alliance, said US intervention in Afghanistan may involve the insertion of special forces combined with the bombing of Taliban troops at a later stage. But he dismissed American claims that US special forces were already in Afghanistan in significant numbers. "They might be in the southern deserts, or in the border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the frontier is not properly delineated," he said. The Pentagon and the Taliban both dismissed reports that a US special forces unit had been captured in western Afghanistan, near the Iranian border. The Pentagon said it gave "no credence" to the story as officials insisted no US units are in the country.
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Abdullah Abdullah
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/29/2001 04:35 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Recon mission is 1st round in fight, says Bush
THOMAS M. DeFRANK and RICHARD SISK NY Daily News
Commandos were on the prowl in Afghanistan, seeking targets but avoiding contact in the opening round of the war on terrorism, President Bush said yesterday. "Make no mistake about it, we're in hot pursuit" of Osama Bin Laden and his followers, Bush said in confirming that U.S. special operations troops had infiltrated the forbidding Afghan landscape and launched reconnaissance patrols. A senior Bush official said highly trained U.S. and British troops — probably elite Special Air Services commandos — were conducting scouting missions in small units. The official said the troops were not actively seeking Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda terror network but were gathering intelligence on possible targets and terrain for future operations.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/29/2001 05:09 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


UN Aid Convoys Heads for Afghan Capital and North
U.N. aid shipments headed for war-ravaged and isolated Afghanistan on Saturday for the first time since they were suspended shortly after the devastating attacks on the United States. All shipments had been stopped and foreign aid workers pulled out of the country after the attacks on New York and Washington, but aid agency officials said they needed to resume supplies because of a vicious cycle of drought and war. Two shipments left on Saturday, one carrying 100 tons of food for the capital Kabul, and another with 200 tons of food and warm clothing for children living in opposition-controlled areas in the north of the country. The food for Kabul, which is held by the ruling Taliban movement, was sent by trucks by the World Food Program on a trial basis.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/29/2001 05:12 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Fifth Column
Pacifist: Perps should be apprehended and brought to justice
By Kevin Danaher, Washington Post
The writer is co-founder of Global Exchange, an international human rights organization.
Instead of relying on the money values and weapons that got us into this trouble, we should rely on the greatest source of U.S. legitimacy around the world: our belief in the inherent right of all human beings to speak their minds, to assemble freely to petition government for change, to worship as they please and to participate actively in running their government. These human rights -- and being the most diverse population in the world -- are the pillars upon which we can rebuild U.S. credibility in the world...

The perpetrators of the recent attacks can be apprehended and brought to justice without killing innocent civilians if we have the support of the world's governments. If America were to engage the world in setting up an effective international criminal court system, the support from other nations would be so strong it would be impossible for any country to shelter the perpetrators of mass violence.
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Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/29/2001 03:49 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Demonstrators Converge in D.C. for Anti-War Protests
The Washington Post, by Christina Pino-Marina
Demonstrators began a series of weekend rallies in the nation's capital today, shifting from anti-globalization themes to anti-war protests after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. About 10 a.m., hundreds of protesters organized by the D.C.-based Anti-Capitalist Convergence group started their march toward the World Bank and International Monetary Fund headquarters, at Pennsylvania Avenue and 18th and 19th streets NW. The demonstrators left Upper Senate Park, at New Jersey Avenue and C Street NW, headed down New Jersey Avenue to H Street NW and through Chinatown. D.C. police had estimated that 4,000 people would take part in anti-war events in the city today, but organizers of a noon march have said they expect 10,000 people for that event alone. As many as 100,000 protesters had been expected to converge in Washington this weekend to demonstrate during the IMF and World Bank meetings. The meetings were canceled after terrorists leveled the World Trade Center towers and destroyed.
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Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/29/2001 05:21 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front
Kyl sez nuke 'em
Joe Salkowski ARIZONA DAILY STAR
U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl says the United States should respond with nuclear weapons if terrorists ever launch a large-scale attack on America with chemical or biological weapons. "I can't think of any other appropriate response in the case of a massive attack with biological weapons," Kyl said Friday during a town hall meeting in Tucson. "We have to let terrorist states know that nothing is off the table."
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Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/29/2001 03:49 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Al-Fuqra member detained
JEN McCAFFERY, The Roanoake, VA Times
Federal authorities prevailed in court as they sought the detention of a Charlotte County man they claim is a leader of an Islamic extremist group. During the charged hearing in federal court in Roanoke, Thomas Gallagher, a special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, linked Vincente Rafael Pierre to Al-Fuqra, a group he described as a "violent black Muslim group that acts out jihads." Gallagher said the group was responsible for 17 bombings and 12 murders across the nation. Despite the connection federal authorities made, the charges against Pierre are connected to Pierre's allegedly having his wife, Traci Elaine Upshur, buy two semiautomatic pistols for him even though he is a convicted felon. It is against the law for persons convicted of felonies to possess firearms.
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TRACI ELAINE UPSHURAl-Fuqra
VINCENTE RAFAEL PIERREAl-Fuqra
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/29/2001 03:49 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Ground Zero Diary
C. J. CHIVERS NY Times
In the hours after the twin towers came down, as Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani began imposing a media blackout at the rubble, hundreds, then thousands, of people converged at ground zero. They were a mismatched mass of motives and skills: police officers, firefighters, part-time soldiers, bureaucrats, dog handlers, contractors, military veterans, staffs from emergency rooms, civilian survivors still coated with stinging ash, chaplains, massage artists, utility workers, misfits and thieves.

Stepping from the confusion and wreckage around them, they bonded on a first-name basis and strung together the tens of thousands of small deeds that transformed the nightmarish bedlam into a new city within the old. To spend 12 days among them — 6 as a volunteer digging and lugging trash, 6 more as a reporter covering the National Guard — was to be privy to a universe more bizarre and more ordinary than the vignettes that found their way out. The inhabitants of ground zero ate together in abandoned restaurants and beside piles of putrid garbage, they fell asleep together wherever they could, they sobbed and prayed together and, as they became familiar with Lower Manhattan's emerging new landscape, they shared directions to working phones and bathrooms that were not splattered with vomit.

Already there were pockets of grief. In a market near the command post, doctors had gone through, seeking supplies. Bereaved firefighters followed, looking for beer. Three of them gathered in the dancing shadows, their faces alternately orange and black, and began the first of the wakes.

They had been off duty when the planes struck and had dashed from private lives to rubble, stopping at firehouses along the way and grabbing anything that had been left behind. They wore other men's gear. One had boots several sizes too big. Another was in street shoes. Their fire companies had been devastated. They could find no one familiar to report to and little equipment to use. They drank beer and watched the Deutsche Bank building burn. "I think all my guys are dead," one said. Another firefighter, reclining in a puddle, said he had approached a Special Operation Command chief who seemed to be in charge. He didn't recognize the man. "I looked him over and was like, `Who the hell are you?' " he said. "He looked me back and said, `I'm the SOC chief. I'm the only SOC chief left.' "

Already there were pockets of rage. Al Sapienza, the actor who played the gangster Mikey Palmice on "The Sopranos," had pedaled to ground zero on his bicycle. Now he took a brief break from hauling body bags. "Anyone," Mr. Sapienza said, "who would use the name of God" — he paused — "to kill innocent women and children" — he paused — "does not deserve to live among us in a world of laws and just people."
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Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/29/2001 05:04 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Empire State Building reopens deck to sightseers
The Empire State Building reopened its observation deck for regular business Saturday, attracting hundreds of tourists -- some of whom had once planned to view the Manhattan skyline from the World Trade Center. As visitors returned to the 86th floor attraction, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani announced plans to do the opening monologue on the season debut of "Saturday Night Live." At the Empire State Building, more than 500 people had lined up by 10 a.m. Saturday to enjoy the view. Most appeared to be tourists, many from tours that were planned before the twin towers of the Trade Center crumbled.
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Mayor Rudolph Giuliani
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/29/2001 04:11 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Arnold Schwarzenegger donates $1 million to New York relief
Arnold Schwarzenegger and wife Maria Shriver said Friday they have donated $1 million dollars to the Twin Towers Fund set up by New York City officials to aid victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Schwarzenegger also accepted an invitation from Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to join the fund's board of directors. "We were inspired by the incredible team of rescue workers, firefighters, police officers and emergency service officials who are the true action heroes in this tragedy," Schwarzenegger said.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
Maria Shriver
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/29/2001 04:12 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


FBI's sweep angers Muslims
Jennifer Edwards, Kentucky Post
The Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati on Wednesday blasted an FBI roundup of more than 25 Muslims Friday in Boone County, saying it ''represents a clear departure from reasonable conduct.'' Agents from the FBI, the Immigration and Naturalization Service and local law enforcement agencies swept through apartment complexes in Burlington and Florence, in one instance interrupting the weekly prayer service of a group. ''On that day, in a place of worship, as Muslims gathered for Friday obligatory congregationa l prayer service ... their service was stormed by FBI agents, INS officials and local police,'' sa id the statement from the center, located in West Chester, Ohio. ''The worshippers were not permitt ed to offer prayers and over two dozen of them were taken away, some in handcuffs, even though the authorities had search warrants for only three people.'' Most of those picked up were released after questioning. The four who remain in custody are being held by the INS for immigration violations.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/29/2001 04:15 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Some Muslim Leaders Seen With Bush Expressed Support for Terrorist Groups
FoxNews.com
Since the terror attacks against the United States, President Bush has been flanked by Muslim leaders in an attempt to reach out to what many have perceived as moderate members of the Muslim community. According to a videotape obtained by Fox News' Rita Cosby, some of the Muslim leaders involved attended a Washington, D.C. rally last year where known terrorist organizations were given support.

One of the leaders invited to appear with Bush was Abdurahaman Alamoudi, the president of the American Muslim Council. Three days after the hijackings, Alamoudi joined Bush at a prayer service dedicated to the victims of the attack. On the videotape of last year's rally, Alamoudi says, "We are all supporters of HAMAS," the group that supports installing an Islamic Palestinian state in place of Israel and that has taken credit for numerous suicide bombings in Israel. Alamoudi also adds on the video that he supports Hezbollah, the group the U.S. Navy credits with several anti-U.S. attacks, beginning with a 1983 suicide truck bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. In fall 2000, Hillary Clinton's campaign for Senate returned a financial contribution from Alamoudi because of his ties to HAMAS.

Also invited to the prayer service attended by Alamoudi after the attacks was Muzzammil Siddiqi, the spiritual leader of the Islamic Society of Orange County. At that service, Siddiqi prayed: "keep our country strong for the sake of the good." Only a year earlier, Siddiqi was an organizer of the rally where Alamoudi expressed support for HAMAS and Hezbollah. Then, Siddiqi said, "The United States of America is directly and indirectly responsible for the plight of the Palestinian people. If you remain on the side of injustice the wrath of God will come." In a phone conversation with Fox News, however, Siddiqi says he was not aware of all the speakers at the rally and doesn't support the extremist viewpoints some expressed. "I don't support Hezbollah and HAMAS. I don't support any terrorist groups. Terrorism is not what Islam teaches," Siddiqi said.
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ABDURAHAMAN ALAMUDIAmerican Muslim Council
MUZZAMIL SIDIQIIslamic Society of Orange County
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/29/2001 04:20 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Rev Jesse's not going to Afghanistan...
ABC News.com
Jesse Jackson said Saturday he will not travel to Afghanistan to mediate its dispute with America, but will appeal for the handover of suspected terrorists and the release of aid workers being held there. The civil rights leader and former presidential candidate said he had received one phone call and two letters from Afghan officials who invited him to meet with high-ranking Taliban officials.

But Jackson said he decided not to make the trip after a delegation from Pakistan could not persuade Afghan officials to release eight Christian aid workers from prison and turn over Osama Bin Laden, the prime suspect in the Sept. 11 attacks. "The Pakistani delegation should have realized some success in their appeal. After all, they share borders," Jackson said. "If they will not respect the Pakistani government and that alliance, it's a mistake on their part and strangely suspicious." Instead of making the trip, Jackson plans to send Afghan leaders a letter asking for the release of the aid workers. He will also ask that the Taliban turn over the terrorists so they can face an international court.

Jackson received the first letter inviting him to meet with Taliban leaders on Friday, followed by a second letter on Saturday, he said. Both letters came from Abdul Salam Zaeef, Afghan ambassador to Pakistan. He said he spoke with Secretary of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, national security adviser, about the letters. Powell had said that Jackson was free to travel but that he did not think such a trip would accomplish anything. Jackson disputed reports that he initiated contact with Afghan leaders. "I would not have known how to contact them," he said. "I couldn't call 1-800-TALIBAN."
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ABDUL SALAM ZAIFTaliban
Condoleezza Rice
Jesse Jackson
Secretary of State Colin Powell
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/29/2001 04:48 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


About that trip to Afghanistan...
Washington Times
Rev. Jesse Jackson is back in the spotlight. This latest chapter in the Jackson journals involves, of all people, the Taliban. The Taliban, Mr. Jackson told supporters at a fund-raiser for his Rainbow/PUSH Coalition earlier this week, want his help. "I got a call today from the Taliban spokesman in Pakistan, offering me to lead a peace delegation to the country." That was on Wednesday. On Thursday, the Taliban sort of set the record straight. "We have not invited him," Taliban Ambassador to Pakistan Abdul Salam Zaheef told the Afghan Islamic Press, "but he offered to mediate and our leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, has accepted this offer. He has ordered the authorities to extend cooperation if Jesse Jackson visits Afghanistan. We will have no objection."

Well, while the mullah might not object, the United States certainly does. In fact, the State Department has set all of them straight, saying the United States has "nothing to negotiate" with the Taliban and that Mr. Jackson "would not be carrying a message from the United States."
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ABDUL SALAM ZAHIFTaliban
Jesse Jackson
Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/29/2001 04:47 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Muslims in U.S. Consider Lawsuits
AP/Newsday, by DEBORAH KONG
Ibrahim Hooper ticks off a list: beatings, shootings, arson, firebombing, threats. They are among the 625 anti-Muslim incidents reported to his national group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, since the Sept. 11 terrorist onslaught. Only in recent days have reports of backlash violence slowed, many advocacy groups say. Now, some are slowly turning their attention to legal action, sifting through complaints and referring victims to attorneys. A defamation lawsuit filed last week by Muslim gas station owners in Illinois may be the first of a string of civil rights, discrimination and defamation suits, advocates and legal experts said.
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IBRAHIM HUPERCouncil on American-Islamic Relations
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/29/2001 05:13 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Passenger ejections seen as profiling
Austin American-Statesman, by Jonathan Osborne
Applause filled the cabin, passengers later recounted, as airport police escorted two Pakistani men off American Airlines Flight 886 at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport a week ago. Early on, airport officials said the men's names matched, or closely matched, those on an FBI watch list of people sought for questioning in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. Officials later changed their explanation, saying the men were taken off the plane at the request of the airline. Federal regulations give commercial captains the right to remove anyone from a flight without reason. And since the Sept. 11 hijackings -- acts that federal investigators have linked to a Middle Eastern terrorist network -- anecdotal evidence suggests pilots are using their power to remove mostly passengers of Middle Eastern descent. In the more than two weeks since the attacks, at least 10 passengers fitting that description have been ordered off commercial flights across the country, including the two men in Austin and a Pakistani man in San Antonio. None of the passengers has had any connection to the Sept. 11 attacks.
That's probably because they're the ones most likely to blow people up. Eskimos don't blow planes up as a rule.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/29/2001 05:17 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Global Jihad


Bush Vows 'Different Kind of War'
Reuters
President Bush said on Saturday his campaign against those responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks on America will be waged ``wherever terrorists hide, or run, or plan.''

``We did not seek this conflict, but we will end it. America will act deliberately and decisively, and the cause of freedom will prevail,'' he said. With international attention focusing on the large U.S. military deployment assembling around Afghanistan, Bush used his weekly radio address to make clear that ``this will be a different kind of war.''

``Our war on terror will be much broader than the battlefields and beachheads of the past,'' Bush said. ``This war will be fought wherever terrorists hide, or run, or plan. Some victories will be won outside of public view, in tragedies avoided and threats eliminated. Other victories will be clear to all.''
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/29/2001 05:19 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Terror Networks
Authorities: Pilot trained hijackers
BY STEVE WARMBIR Chicago Sun-Times
An Algerian pilot was being held in London after British authorities said Friday he had helped train four of the kamikaze hijackers involved in the Sept. 11 attacks on America. The pilot, Lofti Raissi, had been living close to Heathrow Airport and attended the same Arizona flight school with four hijackers, authorities said. Raissi, 27, is the first person overseas to be directly tied to training the terrorists, authorities said. Prosecutors at an extradition hearing in London on Friday said Raissi traveled to the United States several times over the summer. Raissi had lived in Phoenix in the late 1990s, according to records from a commercial database. He used a flight simulator at Sawyer Aviation flight school in Phoenix as late as 1999 to train at least one terrorist, former school employees recall. Prosecutors also revealed that Raissi flew with a hijacker on June 23 from Las Vegas to Arizona. No additional details were given. Raissi was detained on Sept. 21 by a British anti-terrorism squad. The FBI is seeking to extradite him to the United States on charges he filed false answers when he applied for his pilot's license.
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LOFTI RAISIal-Qaeda
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/29/2001 04:02 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


International Islamic Relief Organization...
David B. Ottaway and Dan Morgan Washington Post
When Mahmoud Jaballah left Egypt in 1991 after numerous arrests for alleged ties to a terrorist group, he quickly found a job with a Muslim charity funded by the Saudi government and royal family. Now Jaballah, who spent three years working as a teacher in Pakistan for the Saudi-financed International Islamic Relief Organization, is in custody in Canada. He is accused of being a member of the terrorist group Egyptian Islamic Jihad and of having repeated contact with two top lieutenants of Osama bin Laden.

Jaballah, who describes himself as an Egyptian fundamentalist, fled that country in 1991 after seven arrests in 10 years on suspicion of involvement in plots to assassinate Egyptian politicians. While in Saudi Arabia on a pilgrimage visa, he was hired by the IIRO to teach at a Pakistani school for orphans at a salary of $800 a month, according to court documents.

In 1994, he fled Pakistan using false Iraqi and Saudi passports. After brief stays in Yemen and Azerbaijan, he arrived in Canada in 1996. Canadian immigration officials said Jaballah told them he had gone to IIRO because he was "in need of assistance." During his first Canadian deportation hearing in Ottawa in 1999, a key defense was that he had held legitimate employment with the IIRO in Pakistan. The Canadian judge ruled in his favor after noting that he had never been formally charged in Egypt but would have "some reason to be concerned" if he returned to Egypt.

But this August, Canadian immigration authorities again asked for his deportation and detained him. The new allegations, citing Interpol, the international police organization, said Jaballah was wanted in Egypt on charges of belonging to Egyptian Islamic Jihad, the outlawed terrorist organization that attempted to kill Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 1995.

The official complaint said the Canadian Security Intelligence had "reason to believe" he had engaged in terrorism and been in repeated contact with the head of Egyptian Islamic Jihad's cell in London. It also stated that Jaballah's lawyer in Egypt had been a close associate of Ayman Zawahiri, the Egyptian who became bin Laden's chief adviser when Egyptian Islamic Jihad and al Qaeda effectively merged three years ago.
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Ayman Zawahiri
MAHMUD JABALLAHEgyptian Islamic Jihad
MAHMUD JABALLAHInternational Islamic Relief Organization
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/29/2001 05:05 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Egyptian Islamic Jihad


Saudi charities...
David B. Ottaway and Dan Morgan Washington Post
The Saudi Embassy Web site in Washington says the government has built 210 Islamic centers throughout the world and has taken the initiative to form the International Islamic Relief Organization, among other groups, to serve Muslims inside and outside the Islamic world. These activities, an integral part of Saudi foreign policy, have helped spread the Wahabi strain of Islam and strengthened the royal family's claim to legitimacy at home.

But allegations that the Saudi-backed charities have aided terrorists complicate the royal family's efforts to preserve a special relationship with the United States, its principal military shield. In addition to concerns that the charities provide cover for terrorists, the Islamic fundamentalism exported by the Saudi government has helped inspire radical Islamic elements, some western experts say. "They [the terrorists] recruit within these conservative Islamic circles," said Olivier Roy, an Islamic scholar at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris. Roy expressed concern that the Saudis were losing control of the aid they give for building mosques in dozens of countries. But some IIRO officials say that the Saudi government in fact keeps a tight rein over their activities.

For example, Arafat Asahi, the Muslim World League and IIRO director in Canada, said all applications for aid projects go first to the Saudi Embassy and only then are evaluated by the charities. "We are controlled in all our activities and plans by the government of Saudi Arabia," he said, noting that his own salary also is paid by the Saudis.
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ARAFAT ASAHIMuslim World League
NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN PARISInternational Islamic Relief Organization
OLIVIER ROYInternational Islamic Relief Organization
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/29/2001 05:06 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


The Alliance
Pak shuts down Harakat ul-Mujahedeen
AP
Pakistani authorities shut down a militant group declared a terrorist organization by the United States, hours after the U.N. Security Council ordered all member states to crack down on terrorist organizations. Harakat ul-Mujahedeen, or ``Movement of the Holy Warriors,'' said it was closing down its seven offices under government orders. The movement is one of the largest militant organizations fighting Indian soldiers in the disputed Kashmir region and was declared a terrorist organization by United States years ago.
Wonder if they'll stay closed?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/29/2001 03:50 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:



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Sat 2001-09-29
  Demonstrators Converge in D.C. for Anti-War Protests
Fri 2001-09-28
  Talibs request Binny to leave...
Thu 2001-09-27
  Pakistani delegation leaves for Afghanistan on Friday
Wed 2001-09-26
  400 Taliban militia defect to Northern Alliance
Tue 2001-09-25
  Northern Alliance says it has assurance of support
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  Fighting escalates in northern Afghanistan
Sun 2001-09-23
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Thu 2001-09-20
  Bush to address Congress
Wed 2001-09-19
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