French Rabbi Warns of Ant-Semitism

Duni, Sonntag, 23. November 2003, 21:38 (vor 7944 Tagen) @ tictoc

Nov 23, 1:34 PM (ET)

By PAUL HAVEN

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.

An Afghan link can be traced to nearly every major
terrorist attack since the 2001 strikes in New
York and at the Pentagon, although not all have
been carried out directly by bin Laden´s al-Qaida,
U.S., European and Asian officials told The
Associated Press.

Attacks like the ones in Turkey this past week,
and others in Indonesia, Morocco, Tunisia and the
Philippines, appear to have involved homegrown
groups, sometimes working hand-in-hand with
al-Qaida. Officials say some of the attacks carry
the "hallmarks" of al-Qaida, a way of spreading
the group´s franchise throughout the world.

"Extremists were trained and either pledged their
allegiance to bin Laden and al-Qaida or carried
his message and inspiration back to their home
countries to initiate more localized jihad
efforts," said a U.S. intelligence report obtained
by AP.

Between 15,000 and 20,000 people are believed to
have trained at Afghan camps since 1996, when bin
Laden returned to Afghanistan from Sudan, said a
U.S. counterterrorism official, speaking on
condition of anonymity.

Since the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, Rishkhor
and other al-Qaida camps have mostly been reduced
to rubble, but the men who trained in them -
including, allegedly, the two Turkish suicide
bombers who detonated last week´s synagogue
explosions - are still pursuing their legacy of
death.