让人震惊的9-11恐怖袭击使得基地引人注目，但发展跨国网络争取全球圣战的并非仅有基地组织一家。此次上下两篇的耶鲁系列对恐怖威胁作出分析，自9-11以来，恐怖威胁就在寻求结束现代化和亚洲各地多元文化社会之路，挑起宗教间的战火。下篇分析了巴基斯坦的拉什卡-伊-塔伊巴组织（或称虔诚军）的目标。作者史蒂芬•坦克尔（Stephen Tankel）认为，虔诚军最初的目标是将克什米尔从印度解放出来，这一目标得到了巴基斯坦军方和情报部门的支持。虔诚军扩大其覆盖面，对印度发起攻击，招募印度、孟加拉国和尼泊尔，乃至如沙特和英国等国家的心怀不满的穆斯林。不久，全球圣战者对虔诚军领导人施加压力，...
华盛顿：早在恐怖分子空袭美国之前，一个激进伊斯兰组织在巴基斯坦已经开始了对印度的恐 怖活动。拉什卡-伊-塔伊巴组织即虔诚军在2008年11月对孟买的震惊世界的恐怖袭击，造成160多人死亡和300多人受伤，国际上因此臭名昭著。之前 许多人认为这一名字有“纯洁军队”意思的激进组织的活动仅限于南亚。然而，9 / 11之后七年，攻击发动之时，这一组织放言其跨国网络跨越几大洲。
像基地组织和许多其他圣战组织一样，拉什卡产生于反苏圣战时期的阿富汗。一开始它是一个 泛伊斯兰主义的组织，致力于发动圣战，...
As the new South Korean Prime Minister begins his first official visit to the United States, North Korea's Central News Agency released a report detailing the central role the United States has played and continues to play in the nuclearization of the Korean peninsula. The report is a...
Pyongyang, May 12 (KCNA) -- The Korean Central News Agency issued today a detailed report denouncing the united states for reducing to a dead document the joint declaration on denuclearisation issued by north and south...
Scotland, Catalonia, Flanders and other regions in Europe mull breaking away from their respective nation-states, but that doesn’t necessarily signal an insular outlook. Instead, Scotland is opening offices in Washington and Brussels, nurturing ties and exploring dissociating from British...
Choosing different paths? Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg (left), Angela Merkel and David Cameron on a stroll (top); Catalonia independence rally (below)
SINGAPORE: The fear about the euro’s collapse has receded, but Europe as forged...
Rivers contribute to transport, tourism, hydropower and resources including fish and freshwater. Yet excessive drought, dam-building and other development can ruin rivers. That is happening to the Mekong River, which flows from Tibet to the South China Sea. The Lower Mekong winds through Cambodia,...
Damned by humans: Laos population in Attopeu suffered from a collapsed dam in 2018, and elsewhere sandbanks fill the Mekong River
CAN THO CITY, MEKONG DELTA: The swirling currents of the once mighty Mekong, shrunk by drought and increasingly...
The global impact of the US subprime mortgage crisis prompts some commentators to question if globalization is a stabilizing or destabilizing force on world markets. Increased interconnectedness has certainly improved the flow of money and credit, contributing to the creation of great wealth, but...
When one of the world's big economies stumbles into a quagmire, as the United States has with the subprime mortgage crisis, investors and borrowers always start asking how they got into such a mess - and how they will...
Behind-the-scenes maneuvering by Great Britain, Spain, and several eastern European states has left France and Germany the only major EU opponents of war in Iraq. If France abandons German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder during the next UN war resolution vote, Schroder will be on his own in Europe....
With their rejection of a U.S. attack against Iraq without a further UN resolution, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and, to a lesser extent, his French counterpart, Jacques Chirac, have forced European Union...
Restricting trade is often a tool for governments that want to show their commitment to human rights. But Europe is divided over the relative importance of human rights versus economic growth or the value of trade in promoting those rights. On one hand, trade with China helps to lift millions out...
Hornet's nest: Tibet demonstrations like this in Paris, in the year of the Chinese Olympics
stir emotions, dividing the European Union
BRUSSELS: European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso's three-day visit...
Since the days of the Roman Empire, traders traveled a network of routes winding from China and India to the Mediterranean Sea, known as the Silk Road. A young entrepreneur relied on the name in launching an internet site in 2011 that peddled illegal drugs, and other products and services. The US...
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