In July 2010, the magazine Inspire announced that Wilders, as well as Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Kurt Westergaard and Salman Rushdie, were mentioned on a "death list" of an international Islamist terrorist network.

Säpo, the Swedish intelligence agency, had been keeping an eye on him since the mid-1990s, suspecting him of leading an Islamist network that supported terrorism abroad.

Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, is trying to break the back of the powerful radical Islamist network in his country, although his efforts are far from perfect.

His nickname "El Para" is derived from "paratrooper", as he is believed to have been a trained parachutist in the Algerian armed forces before integrating in the Islamist network.

Ultimately, the Pakistan Army shunted them aside because they supported the centrist, exiled King of Afghanistan rather than the radical Islamist networks preferred by Pakistan's intelligence agency.

A police statement described the arrests as "an important operation aimed at dismantling an Islamist network linked to a terrorist enterprise."

He has also published widely on international terrorism and the 'War on Terror', focusing on the material infrastructure of Islamist terrorist networks and the energy geopolitics of US and Western foreign policy strategies.

More recently, however, they had been attending the smaller 8 Blacks prayer hall, a former Snooker hall located behind a 7-Eleven store on Boundary Road, which is regarded by authorities as a key hub in Australia's militant Islamist network.

In recent years, these Islamist networks have repeatedly engaged in what participants often refer to as "fedayeen" attacks against Indian government targets.

But the broader Islamist network it supports and feeds off of may be as strong as ever, and it constitutes a serious terrorist threat that will remain even after Osama bin Laden is killed or captured.