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1993 Infiniti G20
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The Down Side
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Islamic extremists use America's freedoms
to plot their Middle East intrigues.

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DOUGLAS DAVIS FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

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uspects in the World
Trade Center bombing
may represent just the
tip of an Islamic ter-
rorist iceberg that has been
allowed to develop in the
United States since the mid-

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80s, according to a reliable
Middle East source in Lon-
don.
Most of the major radical
Islamic movements, facing se-
vere restrictions in their own
countries, moved their oper-
ational bases to Europe, par-
ticularly Britain, France and
Germany, which have large
Muslim communities.
There, however, they were
inhibited by the intense sur-
veillance they attracted from
local security services and
many decided to relocate to
the United States. In the
U.S., they hoped to acquire
the anonymity that had elud-
ed them in Europe so that
their fund-raising activities
would be less visible and,
most important; and their or-
ganizational functions would
be less vulnerable.
In addition to the now-fa-
mous New Jersey mosque of
blind Egyptian cleric Sheikh
Omar Abdel-Rahman, who
appears to be a common de-
nominator between the sus-
pects in the World Trade
Center bombing, a number of
other hard-line fundamen-
talist centers have been es-
tablished, says the London
source. They include:
• At least six leading mem-
bers of the outlawed Algerian
Islamic Salvation Front (FIS)
have set up temporary head-
quarters in New York.
• Lebanon's Hezbollah
movement has created "pro-
duction facilities" in Dallas,
T.0 _3Lag__Wit •• e_a_u_dio tan e_s .

videotapes, books and other
materials are produced for
distribution among American
Muslim communities and in
Islamic countries.
• A "rear base" for Iranian-
backed fundamentalists has
been created in Oklahoma.
• "Training facilities" for
Islamic militants have been
established in New Jersey,
Connecticut, Massachusetts
and Texas.
More serious, according to
the source, were the activities
of the Farouk Mosque in
Brooklyn which is believed to
have been the nerve-center of
a clandestine network of Is-
lamic extremists who have
been active in New York since
the late-80s.
According to a report in the
influential London-based
Arabic-language daily Asharq
al-Awsat, the network in-
cludes nationals from Egypt,
Sudan, Morocco, Algeria,
Tunisia, Pakistan and Jor-
dan, as well as Palestinians.<
The paper named Egyptian
Mustafa Shalabi, who worked
out of an office at the mosque,
as head of the Organization
for Immigration Services "Ki-
fah" (Struggle), which was
known to members of the
mosque as "Jihad" (Holy
War). Mr. Shalabi himself
was known as the "Emir of Ji-
had in New York."
According to the paper,
"Kifah" presented itself to
U.S. authorities as a charita-_,
ble organization and a center
for the recruitment of Mus- )
lims who wanted to fight
against the Soviet occupation (
of Afghanistan.
The Afghanistan cover,
which was thin because U.S.
officials were already aware
t hat_the_S ovie_ts_we_re Dian-