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THE BALKANS: Suspicious Foreigners in Bosnia July 23, 2004: Without much publicity, the U.S. is pulling its peacekeepers out of the Balkans. July 21, 2004: Bulgaria has taken a hard line against al Qaeda terrorists, keeping its troops in Iraq despite the murder of a Bulgarian worker by terrorists there. Bulgaria has long warned of the continuing danger of Islamic terrorists operating in Bosnia and Albania. American and European counter-terrorism experts believe about 300 of the thousand or so foreign Moslems in Bosnia are "suspicious", and thought to be part of al Qaeda related organizations. The al-Tawhid terror group, which...

AMMAN: Jordan’s state prosecutor on Sunday demanded death penalty for the Al Qaeda leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and 11 other suspects accused of plotting a chemical bomb attack on intelligence services. “The prosecutor wrapped up his case in the trial by demanding the maximum penalty (death) for 12 suspects,” a judicial source told AFP. A 13th suspect is being accused of a misdemeanour in the trial, in which four of the suspects, including Zarqawi, are being tried in absentia. The nine suspects in the dock, including alleged ringleader Azmi Jayussi, and the fugitives are accused of plotting, on...

Interview with Muslims "Hizboul’lah Moukatilloun" and "Al Tawheed Zealots" a.k.a. Terrorists! A training/briefing center of Hizbou’llah (The Party of Allah) in the Islamic Southern Lebanon. Notice the slogan/public statement on the wall: “OUR ENEMIES FOREVER USA & ISRAEL”. LEBANON AND IRAQ- They explained to us what they want, how they will fight America and Israel, and how they will destroy Zionism and American Imperialism! They admitted that they fear Massad and the Israeli agents who infiltrated many Arab and Muslim countries and particularly Turkey, Syria and Lebanon. They mock the CIA and their “powerless and idiot” agents in the Near...

WHEN Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician, collected his post from the letterbox on Wednesday he got an unpleasant surprise. Among the bills and junk mail was a letter addressing him as “ugly dog”. It told him he would soon be beheaded. It was an unnerving way to start the day. Only 24 hours earlier Theo van Gogh, the film maker who had often attacked radical Muslims, had been riding along on his bicycle when a Muslim fanatic first shot and then butchered him on a busy street with the nonchalance of an abattoir worker.

The Dutch government has ordered an inquiry into the terrorist threat aimed explicitly at the Netherlands which has been circulating on the internet since Sunday. The website of a group calling itself the Islamic Tawhid says the Netherlands will be targeted if Dutch troops are not withdrawn from Iraq. The Dutch secret service, the AIVD, says there is no reason to revise its risk assessment. It is generally accepted that countries with troops in Iraq, such as the Netherlands, face greater risks. Last month the Dutch Interior Ministry introduced a number of additional security measures for potential terrorist targets.