UPI Security & Terrorism articles from November 2005

UPI Security & Terrorism archives from November 2005

Outside view: Russia fights corruption.
November 1, 2005... Byline: VASILY KONONENKO WASHINGTON, D.C., Russia, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- It is widely rumored that the Russian authorities are preparing for a major attack on corruption. Anton Ivanov, the chairman of the Supreme Court of Arbitration, said...

Eye on Eurasia: Chaos spreads in Caucasus.
November 1, 2005... Byline: PAUL GOBLE TALLINN, Estonia, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- The Russian interior ministry reports that the number of terrorist incidents in Chechnya has been gradually declining over the last two years while the number of such actions elsewhere...

BMD Watch: US, Japan boost BMD ties.
November 1, 2005... Byline: MARTIN SIEFF WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- US, Japan boost BMD partnership Top-level U.S. and Japanese officials have agreed to boost their information-sharing on ballistic missile defense. The agreement was reached in...

UPI Intelligence Watch.
November 1, 2005... Byline: JOHN C.K. DALY WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- The government of Yemen is instituting strict measures to rein in governmental arms purchases through arms brokers and traders. A well-informed government source, speaking on condition...

U.N. designates Holocaust Remembrance Day.
November 1, 2005... Byline: LAUREN MACK UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- The U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution Tuesday declaring Jan. 27 as Holocaust Remembrance Day in a solemn tribute to victims of Nazi genocide that killed six million Jews and...

Outside view: Pressuring Syria.
November 1, 2005... MOSCOW, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- A long diplomatic campaign to establish the degree of Syria's involvement in the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri on Feb. 14, 2005, and to decide on the punishment for the culprits, has begun. The...

Despite stakes, Iraq staffing a problem.
November 1, 2005... Byline: PAMELA HESS WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Post-war planning for Iraq, particularly for personnel, was "insufficient in both scope and implementation" states a new report from the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction...

Eye on Eurasia: Russia's million Islamists.
November 2, 2005... Byline: PAUL GOBLE TALLINN, Estonia, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- There are now between 500,000 and one million Muslim radicals in the Russian Federation, "followers of sects of Islamic origin who call for the physical destruction" of all those who...

UPI Intelligence Watch.
November 2, 2005... Byline: JOHN C. K. DALY WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Disturbing stories are circulating about the harsh treatment of hundreds of Thai Muslims detained after a riot in Tak Bai on Monday. "Mamat," a rubber tapper from Kampung Homo Nenas...

U.S. detainee policies under growing fire.
November 2, 2005... Byline: MARTIN SIEFF WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- The secret prison system set up by the United States to hold suspects in the war on terror was under critical new scrutiny on every side Wednesday. And the controversy appeared linked to...

Fear and loathing in the Netherlands.
November 2, 2005... Byline: GARETH HARDING AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- A year to the day after the brutal slaying of controversial Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh by a fanatical jihadist, the Netherlands is still tense, tetchy and trying to come to...

UPI Terrorism Watch.
November 2, 2005... Byline: JOHN C.K. DALY WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- In the wake New Delhi bus bombings Saturday the Indian territory of northern Bengal has been placed under a high state of security alert. Security has also been intensified along India's...

Congress rejects post-war planning fund.
November 2, 2005... Byline: PAMELA HESS WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Three days after an inspector general's report blasted the State Department and other agencies for failing to provide adequate numbers of skilled people to Iraq for the reconstruction effort,...

Sharon adviser urges caution on Hamas.
November 2, 2005... Byline: MARTIN SIEFF WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- A close adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says the Bush administration's policy of encouraging democracy throughout the Arab world is playing into the hands of Hamas. "The...

Europe shocked by CIA prison camp claims.
November 3, 2005... Byline: GARETH HARDING BRUSSELS, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Allegations that the Central Intelligence Agency is running prison camps for suspected al-Qaida terrorists in Eastern Europe have sparked howls of protest from EU legislators and human...

BMD Focus: Teaching the Right Stuff.
November 3, 2005... Byline: MARTIN SIEFF WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. Air Force Space Command has launched an ambitious program to maximize the value it gets out of its technically trained personnel. "It is a comprehensive program to meet (our)...

UPI Intelligence Watch.
November 3, 2005... Byline: JOHN C. K. DALY WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- The prosecution in an espionage case in Seoul said that it now has concrete evidence that National Intelligence Service agents illegally spied on journalists. The covert monitoring...

Outside View: Neocon cabal's dilemmas.
November 4, 2005... Byline: NORMAN LEVINE WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- The persistence of the Iraq insurgency forced the neo-conservative movement to address the question of "nation building." When American armies initially invaded Iraq the administration of...

Eye on Eurasia: Inventing Wahhabis.
November 4, 2005... Byline: PAUL GOBLE TARTU, Estonia, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- At a time when Moscow officials are blaming Wahhabis for terrorism and demanding that the State Duma make following that Islamic trend a crime, one Russian Muslim leader claims that the...

EU seeks to calm CIA camp row.
November 4, 2005... Byline: GARETH HARDING BRUSSELS, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- The European Union Friday moved to distance itself from claims that the Central Intelligence Agency set up holding camps for suspected al-Qaida terrorists in Eastern Europe. However, the...

Outside View: US, China need each other.
November 4, 2005... Byline: THOMAS WIEGAND BONN, Germany, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- When the Twin Towers in New York were destroyed by Islamic fundamentalists on Sept. 11, 2001, the United States learned two lessons: 1) The United States is invincible but not...

IEDs fewer but more deadly in south Iraq.
November 4, 2005... Byline: PAMELA HESS WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- At least 18 coalition soldiers have been killed in southeastern Iraq in the last two months, most by a deadly new kind of roadside bomb believed to be sourced from Iran, a top British general...

UPI Intelligence Watch.
November 4, 2005... Byline: JOHN C.K. DALY WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Viktor V. Cherkesov, director of Russia's Federal Drug Control Service, said that Russia will deepen its intelligence sharing with the U.S. in the two countries' struggle against drugs....

UPI Terrorism Watch.
November 4, 2005... Byline: JOHN C. K. DALY AND JENNIFER SCHULTZ WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Colombia's government next month will begin to employ nearly 2,000 recently demobilized rightist United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia -- or AUC -- paramilitaries as...

Outside View: Exiting Iraq.
November 5, 2005... Byline: WILLIAM S. LIND WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- One day late in the Vietnam war, a senator called his defense staffer into his office. Like too many senators (though neither of the two I worked for), the distinguished legislator...

Outside view: Resolving 'frozen' conflicts.
November 5, 2005... Byline: VLADIMIR SIMONOV MOSCOW, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Washington has officially announced its readiness to join the talks on the settlement of the long and slowly developing Transdnestr conflict. The self-proclaimed republic is trying to...

Interview: Conflict cracker Gareth Evans.(Interview)
November 5, 2005... Byline: GARETH HARDING BRUSSELS, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Gareth Evans is president of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group and recently selected as one of Time Magazine's "European Heroes 2005." United Press International spoke to the...

Outside View: Rabin's lost heritage.
November 6, 2005... Byline: MARIANNA BELENKAYA MOSCOW, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- The events in the Middle East in late October and early November provoked a mixed reaction. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said the construction of a dividing wall between...

Iraq deaths slow down, but wounded rate up.
November 6, 2005... Byline: MARTIN SIEFF WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- October was one of the deadliest months yet for U.S. soldiers in Iraq. And November got off to a grim start too. In the first three days of November, 10 U.S. soldiers were killed in...

Experts blast Bush on India nuke deal.
November 7, 2005... Byline: MARTIN SIEFF WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Non-proliferation experts have blasted the Bush administration for negotiating too lenient nuclear and space cooperation deals with India. The agreements announced at a summit meeting...

U.S. court to fight fake dollars.
November 7, 2005... Byline: STEFAN BURGDOERFER WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Six-party talks resume in Beijing Wednesday with the aim of continuing the push toward North Korean denuclearization. Not on the agenda, however, are North Korea's international...

UPI Intelligence Watch.
November 7, 2005... WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Russia this week successfully fight-tested its answer to the $50 billion U.S. ballistic defense system, which it vowed to do four years ago when the Bush administration told Russia that it would unilaterally from the...

Eye on Eurasia: Russia's rising racism.
November 7, 2005... Byline: PAUL GOBLE TALLINN, Estonia, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- A rising tide of attacks on foreign students as well as on members of ethnic and religious minorities has sparked concerns among some Russians that they may be equally at risk and led to...

UPI Terrorism Watch.
November 7, 2005... Byline: JOHN C.K. DALY WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- As the international community ponders the eventual status of Serbia's Kosovo province a little-known paramilitary group, the Army for the Independence of Kosovo, or AIK, threatened...

BMD Watch: Nuke SCUD threat to U.S.
November 8, 2005... Byline: MARTIN SIEFF WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Lockheed Martin combats nuke SCUD threat to U.S. Lockheed Martin is developing a warning system to detect nuclear-armed SCUD missiles that could potentially be launched from small ships...

CIA blabber mouth: intel budget $44b.
November 8, 2005... WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. government's annual intelligence budget, long a tightly held and long-defended secret, is out of the bag -- $44 billion. Mary Margaret Graham, a 27-year veteran of the CIA, accidentally let the figure...

UPI Intelligence Watch.
November 8, 2005... Byline: JOHN C.K. DALY WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Russian Federal Security Service officials are continuing to investigate the Oct. 13 insurgent attack on the Kabardino-Balkaria capital of Nalchik. At least 90 people died as more than...

Eye on Eurasia: Russia's Muslims unify.
November 8, 2005... Byline: PAUL GOBLE TALLINN, Estonia, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- The Muslims of the Russian Federation moved cautiously toward greater communal unity during two meetings in Nizhniy Novgorod at the end of last week, simultaneously avoiding both the...

Outside view: The Azeri election.
November 9, 2005... MOSCOW, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Dire warnings of a "velvet revolution" in Azerbaijan during the recent parliamentary elections were issued in vain. This is confirmed by a weak response from the opposition leaders. Although they differ in their rating...

Outside view: Chernobyl's real toll.
November 9, 2005... Byline: RICHARD L. GARWIN YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y., Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The headline of The New York Times Sept. 8 editorial, "Chernobyl's Reduced Impact," indicated that the consequences of Chernobyl are now understood to be substantially less...

UPI Intelligence Watch.
November 9, 2005... Byline: JOHN C.K. DALY WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Muslim clerics in Pakistan's remote Allai region of Battagram have reportedly issued a fatwa prohibiting people from descending into the valley to obtain humanitarian aid following the...

Analysis: Elections weaken Bush in world.
November 9, 2005... Byline: MARTIN SIEFF WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The latest political defeats for the Republican Party in Tuesday's gubernatorial and mayoral elections further undermine faltering President George W. Bush's leadership at the very time when...

UPI Terrorism Watch.
November 9, 2005... WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Pakistani troops are mounting operations in the country's turbulent Baluchistan province, sandwiched between Afghanistan and Iran, angering many local leaders. Sardar Akbar Bugti said, "They have entered Dera...

Claim: U.S. created al-Zarqawi myth.
November 10, 2005... Byline: JENNIFER SCHULTZ WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- The United States created the myth around Iraq insurgency leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and reality followed, terrorism expert Loretta Napoleoni said. Al-Zarqawi was born Ahmad Fadil...

BMD Focus: New Near Space Vision.
November 10, 2005... Byline: MARTIN SIEFF WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- More than 68 years after the Hindenburg crashed in flames at Lakewood, New Jersey, U.S Air Force Space Command is turning back to Zeppelins. At the Pacific Space Leadership Forum in Hawaii...

UPI Intelligence Watch.
November 10, 2005... Byline: JOHN C.K. DALY WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- While the Bush administration accuses Iran of covertly destabilizing neighboring countries, the head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council says the Islamic republic to the contrary...

U.S. 'can't maintain Iraq troop levels'.
November 11, 2005... Byline: JOHN P. GRAMLICH WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Unless the Bush administration significantly cuts American troop levels in Iraq next year, the U.S. military's roughly 140,000-strong presence there will become a detriment to America's...

Outside view: Europe's strategy lacks beef.
November 11, 2005... Byline: AXEL KUKUK HAMBURG, Germany, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- In the introduction of the European Security Strategy, the European Union is described as a global player, "as a Union of 25 States with over 250 million people producing a quarter of...

U.S. reactors helpless against air attack.
November 11, 2005... Byline: MARTIN SIEFF WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- More than four years after Sept. 11, 2001, the 103 civilian nuclear reactors in the United States are still defenseless against direct air attack, and their minimum requirement for ground...

Outside View: Russia and APEC.
November 11, 2005... Byline: DMITRY KOSYREV MOSCOW, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- The word "reform" can hardly be used to describe next week's annual forum of the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation that will be held in Pusan, South Korea. An outside observer may...

Outside view: Middle East trends.
November 12, 2005... Byline: ANTHONY H. CORDESMAN WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- This article is extracted from testimony given to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on Nov. 8, 2005 and is reprinted by permission. -- There is no single cause for...

Outside view: Terror in Jordan.
November 13, 2005... Byline: MARIANNA BELENKAYA MOSCOW, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Jordan has become a new target for terrorists. Until now, Jordan seemed one of the calmest countries in the Middle East, but to a significant extent this was a superficial impression....

Outside view: Saudis fighting terror.
November 13, 2005... Byline: ANTHONY H. CORDESMAN WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- This article is extracted from testimony given to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on Nov. 8, 2005 and is reprinted by permission. -- The State Department praised...

Spies' CIO faces first Senate confirmation.
November 14, 2005... Byline: SHAUN WATERMAN WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- The Senate is set to hold a nomination hearing this week for the chief information officer for the nation's new intelligence czar -- the first ever for the new post, but also perhaps the...

Outside view: Saudis teach against terror.
November 14, 2005... Byline: ANTHONY H. CORDESMAN WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- At best, Saudi Arabia will take years to make the kind of progress that took decades in the West. Popular support for open religious activities by other faiths may well be a matter...

U.S., Iraqi troops suffer fewer casualties.
November 14, 2005... Byline: MARTIN SIEFF WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- The current U.S. tactical offensives in Iraq have put on the insurgents on the defensive. The rate at which they have been inflicting casualties on U.S. forces continued to decline over the...

Leak probe on intelligence budget slip.
November 14, 2005... Byline: SHAUN WATERMAN WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte has asked one of his deputies to look into the circumstances under which another of them may have accidentally revealed the classified...

UPI Intelligence Watch.
November 14, 2005... Byline: JOHN C.K. DALY WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Concerned about deteriorating security in Somalia, the United Nations Security Council last week condemned the ongoing smuggling of arms into the war-torn nation. A second issue of...

UPI Terrorism Watch.
November 14, 2005... Byline: JOHN C.K. DALY AND JENNIFER SCHULTZ WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Increasingly bold attacks by Somali pirates further off the coast are having a negative impact on East African shipping. This year, 32 attacks on foreign merchantmen...

UPI Intelligence Watch.
November 15, 2005... Byline: JOHN C.K. DALY WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Russia says it plans to keep 1,500 troops in Moldova's restive province of Transdniestria for the foreseeable future. The issue of the Moldovan breakaway region -- a hotbed for arms...

BMD Watch: New Japan radar tracks ICBM.
November 15, 2005... Byline: MARTIN SIEFF WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- New Japan BMD radar tracks Russian missile test A new Japanese ballistic missile defense radar successfully tracked a Russian strategic missile test this weekend. A prototype...

UPI Intelligence Watch.
November 15, 2005... Byline: JOHN C.K. DALY WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Romania's Rompetrol oil conglomerate is fending off attacks on its credibility after being included by the Volker Commission on the list of oil companies that acquired crude from Iraq as...

Pentagon delays new interrogation policy.
November 15, 2005... Byline: PAMELA HESS WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- The Pentagon, while fending off Senate attempts to regulate detention, this week delayed the release of a long-awaited new Army manual on interrogation. The delay is meant to give...

Analysis: CIA camps row heats up in Europe.
November 15, 2005... Byline: GARETH HARDING BRUSSELS, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Just when the United States thought the transatlantic row over possible Central Intelligence Agency terrorist detention camps in Europe had blown over, the European Parliament followed the...

UPI Terrorism Watch.
November 16, 2005... Byline: JOHN C.K. DALY WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- The South African press is reporting that two South Africans in Iraq working for the U.S. security company DynCorp International apparently died sacrificing themselves to protect a U.S....

Britain's N. Ireland chief tips strategy.
November 16, 2005... Byline: MARTIN SIEFF WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Can tough love jump-start the Northern Irish peace process and transform its economy to match the trigger growth of the neighboring Republic of Ireland? Peter Hain, Britain's recently...

UPI Intelligence Watch.
November 16, 2005... Byline: JOHN C.K. DALY WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Last week at an international conference in the capital Canberra the government of Prime Minister John Howard proposed a dramatic broadening of its air marshal program. Howard's...

Black Hundreds live again.
November 17, 2005... Byline: PAUL GOBLE TALLINN, Estonia, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- A group of extreme right Russian nationalists plans to re-establish the notoriously anti-Semitic Union of the Russian People next week on the 100th anniversary of a movement often...

Aznar slams NATO, calls for terror focus.
November 17, 2005... Byline: GARETH HARDING BRUSSELS, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- NATO's relevance in the modern world depends on severe rebranding, a new FAES pamphlet insists. The new NATO should become an "Alliance for Freedom," with a focus on defeating Islamic...

UPI Intelligence Watch.
November 17, 2005... Byline: JOHN C.K. DALY WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- On Wednesday Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan convened a security meeting to address the deteriorating situation in Hakkari. Attendees included Foreign Minister and Deputy...

BMD Focus: Koizumi pushes Patriots.
November 17, 2005... Byline: MARTIN SIEFF WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Following precedents and agreements that have defined democratic Japan for more than a century, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is fated to step down in a few months after completing a...

Legal, policy, moral issues in Iraq abuse.
November 17, 2005... Byline: PAMELA HESS WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army intervened this week to stop the apparent abuse of Iraqi prisoners, offering a sharp contrast to a similar situation last year and raising complicated legal question about the...

Three days that transformed America.
November 17, 2005... Byline: MARTIN SIEFF WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- On Thursday, a Democratic national politician for the first time managed to do what former Vice President Al Gore, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, their running mates and more than $150...

E.U. moves to open up defense market.
November 18, 2005... Byline: GARETH HARDING BRUSSELS, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- European Union defense ministers will take a small but significant step Monday towards opening up the bloc's notoriously closed defense industry market by agreeing to a voluntary code of...

Perle says out with the Saudis.
November 18, 2005... Byline: ANNA CARBINO WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- Former Department of Defense adviser Richard Perle, the immensely influential godfather of the neo-conservative movement, launched a public broadside against the alleged corruption of the...

UPI Terrorism Watch.
November 18, 2005... Byline: JOHN C.K. DALY WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- In January Saudi Arabia will sponsor a major two-day international counter-terrorism conference at London's prestigious Royal United Services Institute. "Transnational terrorism: A...

Wolf Brigade raid angers Iraq's Sunnis.
November 18, 2005... Byline: PAMELA HESS WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- The minority Sunni members of the Diyala Provincial Council in Iraq have boycotted it to protest a massive raid conducted by the Interior Ministry's special police commandos, fanning the...

Casualties soar again in Iraq.
November 18, 2005... Byline: MARTIN SIEFF WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- The all-too-short lull in insurgent attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq is over, and bomb attacks against Iraqi civilians are escalating horrifically again too. On Friday alone, two suicide...

UPI Intelligence Watch.
November 18, 2005... Byline: JOHN C.K. DALY WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- Australian Defense Materiel Organization officer Arthur Lazarou is being subjected to an internal defense investigation over his ties to retired Northrop Grumman engineer Noshir Gowadia....

Outside view: Islamist tricks.
November 19, 2005... Byline: WILLIAM S. LIND WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- "Militant Tricks: Battlefield Ruses of the Islamic Insurgent" is the title of John Poole's latest book. Poole, a former Marine NCO and officer, is America's best writer on small unit...

Outside view: Putin tough on Tokyo.
November 19, 2005... Byline: ANDREI ILYASHENKO MOSCOW, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- The only possible outcome of President Vladimir Putin's forthcoming visit to Japan is a confirmation of Russia's firm stand on the issue of the Northern Territories. The pre-talks...

Outside view: US-Russia space coop over?
November 19, 2005... MOSCOW, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Anatoly Perminov, head of Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos), and NASA Administrator Michael Griffin will meet in January 2006 to formalize the joint operation of the International Space Station (ISS), which is...

Outside View: Tashkent makes a choice.
November 19, 2005... Byline: ALEXEI MAKARKIN MOSCOW, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- News of the friendship treaty between Russia and Uzbekistan signed by Vladimir Putin and Islam Karimov should not have come as a surprise -- the two countries have been slowly inching...

Eye on Eurasia: Why Muslims go to Europe.
November 20, 2005... Byline: PAUL GOBLE TALLINN, Estonia, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Islam.ru, the most visited Russian-language Internet portal devoted to news about Muslims in Russia, received an email from a visitor asking why Muslims have left countries where they...