The international community must recognize the growing threat posed by radical Islamic fundamentalists.

The pressure in Australia to crack down is mitigated somewhat by efforts of moderate Muslims, who are the vast majority, to police the radical fundamentalists.

"You mean the radical fundamentalists," said Harvath.

"It wants a stable government with a minimal amount of violence, and there is some concern that it does not want radical fundamentalists to take over."

He was Associated Press Bureau Chief in Beirut when taken hostage by radical fundamentalists and remained a captive for seven years.

"The Governments keep close watch on all radical fundamentalists," the diplomat said.

For now, under American pressure, many Muslim countries are forcibly cracking down on radical fundamentalists.

He writes suggestively and with alarmed understanding of the radical fundamentalists he talked to (among them his brother, now estranged).

The weapons, he said, were sold to elements in the military - "not to the revolutionary guard," the radical Islamic fundamentalists.

Like human survivalists, natives are also subject to exploitation by the horticultural equivalent of radical fundamentalists.