Foreign Extremism
A library of articles that look at the terrorist threat outside the United States.

Saudi-Pak cooperation against terrorism and the problem of Salafi-Wahhabism
7/28/2004
EDITORIAL: Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have apparently decided to cooperate with each other in eradicating terrorism. ...this time round ... Pakistan itself is also threatened by radical Salafi extremism...
Sunni Disposition
6/10/2004
National Review

These moderates should be our friends.
Sunni traditionalists in Iraq are fighting desperately for self-preservation in a nation flooded with Wahabist radicals. Without US support, these traditionally peace-loving, hard-working and progressive elements will become more and more alienated and tend towards a fight, if for no other reason than to save their own way of life.
U.S. to Block Assets of 10 Jemaah Islamiah Suspects
9/4/2003
Reuters
The United States said on Friday it is moving to freeze the assets of 10 suspected members of the Jemaah Islamiah militant network, a group blamed for last year's Bali bomb attack and believed to have links to al Qaeda
Jemaah Islamiah Has 300-Man Attack Force-Jakarta
8/21/2003
Reuters
The Southeast Asian Jemaah Islamiah militant Muslim group has at least 300 fighters trained in the Philippines and Afghanistan, a senior Indonesian policeman said Thursday.
Anti-U.S. Group in Iraq Claims Al Qaeda Link
7/14/2003
Reuters
A group claiming links to the al Qaeda network has released a tape saying it, not Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) loyalists, was behind attacks on U.S. forces, but offered no evidence to back up the claims.
WAMY Chief Warns Young Muslims Against Group of Deviants
5/28/2003
Arab News - Javid Hassan
The World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) has warned young Muslims against a “deviant group” that “has strayed from the right path and does not represent the youth of this country.” In a statement released here, Dr. Saleh Al-Wohaibi, secretary-general of WAMY, stressed that the time had come when they should “stand united against the dangers (facing the community) and alert young Muslims against those spreading this harmful ideology.”
Homegrown Fanatics
5/15/2003
New York Times - Sulaiman al-Hattlan
Though few would publicly admit it, Saudis have become hostages of the backward agenda of a small minority of bin Laden supporters who in effect have hijacked our society. Progressive voices have been silenced. The religious and social oppression of women means half the population is forced to stay behind locked doors. Members of the religious police harass us in public spaces, and sometimes even in our homes about our clothing and haircuts. A civil cold war is raging, one we have long pretended doesn't exist.
The Clinton Intel Record: Deeper failures revealed
4/28/2003
National Review - Mansoor Ijaz
The unearthing of documents directly linking Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda organization to Saddam Hussein this weekend may have hermetically sealed the Bush administration's case that dismantling Iraq's Baathist enterprise was in part necessary to undo terrorism's dynamic duo. But closing that case may reopen a Pandora's box for ex-Clinton administration officials who still believe their policy prescriptions protected U.S. national interests against the growing threat of terrorism during the past decade.
How Jihad Made Its Way to Chechnya
4/26/2003
Washington Post - Sharon LaFraniere
Russian intelligence officials assert that Osama bin Laden donated at least $25 million and dispatched numerous fighters to Chechnya, including Ibn Khattab, a Saudi who led one of the best-trained contingents. The United States now agrees that Khattab had al Qaeda ties, and cited those links when it added three Chechen rebel units to its list of terrorist organizations earlier this year.
East, West Radicals Find Unsettling Bond
01/03/2003
Los Angeles Times - Jeffrey Fleishman
They are unlikely allies, but right-wing extremists and Islamic militants share a hatred for Israel and the United States that has drawn the attention of German authorities.
A Cocktail of Grievances in Paradise: Tourism, US swagger and a new Islam have transformed Mombasa
12/29/2002
The Guardian - Fuad Nahdi
Yesterday's attacks in Kenya were shocking, but hardly surprising. Like Bali in Indonesia, Mombasa was once an idyllic tropical island. Now it is simmering with anger, consumed by hatred and sucked into the global mayhem that is "the war against terror".
Saudis Face U.S. Demand on Terror: National Security Council seeks to curb financiers
11/26/2002
The Washington Post - Douglas Farah
A National Security Council task force is recommending an action plan to President Bush that is designed to force Saudi Arabia to crack down on terrorist financiers within 90 days or face unilateral U.S. action.
FBI Probes Possible Saudi, 9/11 Money Ties
11/26/2002
CNN - 
The FBI is investigating whether the Saudi Arabian government funneled money to associates of two of the September 11 hijackers, a senior White House official told CNN Saturday.
Report Rips Saudi Laxity on Funds: Policy group says U.S. must move on al Qaeda financing
10/17/2002
The Washington Post - Douglas Farah
The Bush administration’s efforts to cut off funds for international terrorism are destined to fail until it confronts Saudi Arabia, whose leaders have tolerated some of its wealthy citizens raising millions of dollars a year for al Qaeda, according to a new report from an influential foreign policy organization.
To Fight Terror, Fix Saudi Schools
10/15/2002
The Christian Science Monitor - Jim Davis and Doug Bereuter
In Saudi schools, Islamic religious education is compulsory, accounting for 30 to 40 percent of the school day at some grade levels. Over the past two decades, the government of Saudi Arabia has tolerated elements within its education system that promote and encourage extremism.
Muslim Conference Overshadowed by Arrest: "Salafis" fear association with suspected terrorist
09/02/2002
The Times (London) - Oliver Wright
The arrest of suspected terrorist Kerim Chatty in Sweden cast a pall over the sixth Salafi National Islamic Conference in England.
Kadyrov Proposes to Ban Wahhabi Fundamentalism in Russia
08/28/2002

Izvestia
Akhmad Kadyrov, the Kremlin-appointed head of Chechnya, seems to be supporting the federal government's idea of a referendum on a constitution for Chechnya; but insists on Chechnya's interior ministry being reformed before any further action is taken.
Extremists in a Moderate Land
08/11/2002
Washington Post - Carole O'Leary
"The Wahabis," Mullah Ahmed Suwayri told me vehemently, "are stealing our youth and brainwashing them."
Expat Brits Live in Fear as Saudis Turn on the West
07/28/2002
The Observer - Guardian Unlimited - Paul Harris, Nick Pelham and Martin Bright
Saudi Arabia's community of foreigners is trapped between bombings by Islamic terrorists, police torture and palace feuding.
London Imam Faces FBI Inquiry Over al-Qa'eda Training Camp
07/25/2002
Daily Telegraph (London) - Sean O'Neill
Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Masri, the radical London imam, is at the centre of an FBI investigation into an alleged plot to recruit young American Muslims into an al-Qa'eda cell in the United States.
Russia: Saudi-Funded Wahhabite Group Seizes Mosque
07/25/2002
Moscow Rossiyskaya Gazeta - Gennadiy Lyulkin
[FBIS Translated Text] Krasnoufimsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast - "Here's the score, respected mullah. Repay R5 million to us. You took out a loan when you bought the car, just think. You'll be out in the snow. You'll be left without a home, without anything. Always keep this sum to hand, so you can hand over the money at our first demand. Death to enemies of the people!"
Dutch Call for Probe of Muslims Amid a Report on Radical Imams
07/08/2002
Wall Street Journal - Dan Bilefsky
Dutch parliamentarians called for a wide-ranging investigation of Islam in the Netherlands after Muslim clerics were secretly tape-recorded praising suicide bombers and calling for the "destruction of the enemies of Islam."
Russia's Scattered Tactical Arms a Temptation for Terrorists
06/18/2002
Boston Globe - David Filipov
MOSCOW - The US-Russian arms treaty signed in Moscow last month did nothing to eliminate the greatest fear in an age of terror: that one of Russia's thousands of tactical nuclear devices left over from the Cold War could fall into the wrong hands.
Belgium Is 'Launch Pad for Terrorists'
06/04/2002
The Daily Telegraph - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Islamic terrorists have turned Belgium into a recruiting base and the launch pad for future attacks across Europe, according to a leaked official dossier.
How in a Little British Town Jihad Found Young Converts
04/24/2002
New York Times - Amy Waldman
IPTON, England — The young men lived within a few blocks of one another in a Muslim pocket in this small town near Birmingham. They were out of school and often on the streets, in the occasional fight, sometime smokers of marijuana. They were, in the slang of the British Midlands, "dossers" — slackers, layabouts.
Call to Jihad from an Ontario Strip Mall: News magazine propagates Islamic revolution
04/06/2002
National Post - Stewart Bell
MARKHAM, Ont. - The call to Islamic revolution can be heard in the dank caves of Afghanistan and the speeches of Iran's bearded mullahs. But one of its most strident voices emanates not from the Arab world, but from an industrial mall in the suburbs north of Toronto.
State: Saudis "Encouraging Terrorism"
03/22/2002
FORWARD - Staff Writer
WASHINGTON - The State Department charged Saudi Arabia with "encouraging terrorism" by sending hundreds of millions of dollars in support for the families of "martyrs" since the start of the Intifada.
Al-Qaeda Plot Revealed in Sarajevo
03/23/2001
Associated Press - Alexander S. Dragicevic
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Al-Qaeda terrorists planned a devastating attack on Americans in Sarajevo after meeting in Bulgaria to identify European targets, a high-ranking Bosnian official said Saturday.

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