Perhaps there is nothing in the concern that pre-charge detention will be as effective at recruiting young Muslims to the al-Qa'eda cause as the madrassahs of Pakistan.

In response to the Sept. 11 attacks, the F.B.I. and other counterterrorism authorities have pursued a campaign to recruit Muslims like Mr. Konaté as informers.

America must recruit Muslims in the United States and ask other Muslim countries to send troops to the front lines.

After Sept. 11, intelligence and law enforcement agencies were criticized for failing to recruit Muslims who could move within circles where they could gather information to learn about terrorist threats.

He recruited young Muslims to the fundamentalist cause in Madrid's mosques.

The two videos indicated that Al-Amriki had become a prominent figure for al-Shabaab in its effort to recruit Western Muslims to jihad.

That attack appeared to have been a reaction to the acquittal of 12 men who had been charged with recruiting Muslims in the Netherlands for Islamic holy wars abroad.

"But what has happened is that a very, very manifest attempt to recruit Indian Muslims is now being done."

The ISI and the CIA worked together to recruit Muslims throughout the world to take part in Jihad against the occupying forces.

For example, they were not to recruit Muslims, Jews, members of certain skilled trades, orphans, only children and married men.