Schooled in jihad
President Pervez Musharraf had the ears of the world for his groundbreaking speech. In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, he needed to show that the only nuclear-armed Islamic...
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Iran loses faith in clerics
The mob shouted for his blood. They called him a traitor; they yelled, "Death to Montazeri." The target of their wrath? The Grand Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri. Once, he was...
Hard-liners won battle for Bridgeview mosque
Sheik Jamal Said stood before the packed mosque and worked the crowd like an auctioneer. Speaking Arabic, the prayer leader asked for a donation of $10,000. No one responded. He...
Struggle for the soul of Islam
Sheik Jamal Said stood before the packed mosque and worked the crowd like an auctioneer. Speaking Arabic, the prayer leader asked for a donation of $10,000. No one responded. He...
Barbershop buzz marks life’s return
The Moeen barbershop opened again for business, despite the cracks in the wall. Men still needed their hair cut. Two weeks after an earthquake killed almost half the population in...
Critical Chicago agent object of 4th FBI probe
The FBI has opened its fourth internal investigation into a Chicago agent who has repeatedly criticized the bureau for failing to follow up on terrorism leads, two U.S. senators said...
Battle flushes Taliban from hideout
After heavy bombing drove suspected Taliban fighters out of their camp in the Tor Ghar mountain range, U.S. and Afghan forces found cave dwellings, motorcycles and large amounts of weapons,...
Charity chief’s trial to start
Two years ago, former Al Qaeda member Jamal Ahmed Al-Fadl helped lawyer Patrick J. Fitzgerald convict four men for bombing two U.S. embassies in Africa. On the witness stand, Al-Fadl...
Tears, songs and prayers help to heal
For three minutes, the only sounds at Daley Plaza were the crisp whipping of flags and the tolling of bells on a September day as bright and blue as one...
Federal tactics criticized in roundup of 1,100
Yasser Ebrahim keeps the letters in a sealed envelope in his desk drawer. He remembers what he wrote to his brother from his ninth-floor New York City cell: Don't worry....