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ALGIERS (AP) — Suspected Islamic extremists attacked a bus on the outskirts of the Algerian capital, killing 13 people aboard and injuring nine, the official APS news agency reported today. The Friday night attack came 24 hours after two people were shot to death and three injured in another bus attack, near the coastal town of Bou Ismael, west of Algiers. In the latest assault, five or six men attacked the bus with machine-gun fire in the town of Eucalyptus, 20 kilometres south of Algiers, the news agency said without providing details. Eucalyptus, a small dusty town, is in an...

In defending country against Islamist insurgency, generals claim they were leading the world . ALGIERS: Algeria’s military establishment feels vindicated by the events of Sept. 11. Previously, Algerian chief of staff General Mohammed Lamari explains, the world had turned a deaf ear to Algeria’s warnings that thousands of armed Islamist militants trained in Afghanistan were planning to wreak global mayhem, starting with his own country. Lamari portrays the Islamist insurgency that broke out in Algeria in 1992 and which has claimed tens of thousands of lives, as the work of groups which had learned guerrilla warfare fighting the Soviet Army in...

Washington - The United States is showing its determination to crush even the most obscure forms of violent Islamic militancy following the September 11 attacks, adding eight groups in three continents to a watchlist in its annual report on terrorism in 2001. The additions signalled fears of militant tentacles reaching across Africa and Asia and into Western Europe. It also showed the complex nature of the war on terrorism launched by Washington after the airline attacks, which killed more than 3000 people in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington. The list of "other terrorist groups" added several names whose activities were...

<p>HE TERRORIST attack in an Islamabad church that killed five worshippers, including two Americans, and the barbaric murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl are just the tip of the iceberg. Pakistan's transition from an ally of extremist Islamists to a modern Muslim state will not come without a fight. If Pakistani officials had responded to the activities of chief suspect Sheik Ahmed Omar Saeed or to US requests last November for his arrest and extradition, Pearl might still be alive.</p>

Kashmiri militants hide behind the veil By Sudha Ramachandran BANGALORE - Barely seven months after a failed attempt at enforcing the imposition of the burqa (a black cloak that covers a woman from head to toe, including her face) on women in Indian-administered Kashmir, the Lashkar-e-Jabbar (LeJ) is back at cultural and moral policing again. Renewing its burqa campaign in the Kashmir Valley, the LeJ has threatened to throw acid on Kashmiri Muslim women who defy its diktat. In addition to the imposition of the burqa on women, the LeJ has warned cable channel operators to stop telecasting channels that...