Word: arabian
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...rally for a new round of violence. With the Pentagon planning to move as many as 250,000 troops into the region in advance of a possible invasion, some experts believe that al-Qaeda will call for a renewed jihad against the U.S. presence in and around the Arabian Peninsula--one of the original objects of bin Laden's wrath...
...rally for a new round of violence. With the Pentagon planning to move as many as 250,000 troops into the region in advance of a possible invasion, some experts believe that al-Qaeda will call for a renewed jihad against the U.S. presence in and around the Arabian Peninsula-one of the original objects of bin Laden's wrath...
...become a larger factor working against U.S. efforts to depose Saddam Hussein through military force. "This most recent operation is consistent with the primary goal that Al Qaeda set for itself from the very first moment of its confrontation with the U.S., namely, to expel U.S. forces from the Arabian Peninsula," says Satie Noureddin of Beirut's daily As Safir newspaper. "The timing leaves no room for doubt that U.S. plans for war on Iraq cannot remain as they are without further adjustments...
...within this context of failure that the networks to which bin Laden had lent his name and image began a strategy of substitution. The strategy involved focusing on purely terrorist activities by small groups and striking highly symbolic targets, especially American interests in the Arabian peninsula: the 1995 car bombing of a U.S.-run training facility for the Saudi National Guard in Riyadh, which killed five Americans; the destruction of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998; and the attack on the U.S.S. Cole in October 2000. The enormous media impact of these operations was designed to demonstrate...
...that support for the jihadist violence targeting U.S. interests on the Arabian peninsula came to be redirected toward Israel. After the Oslo peace accords broke down and the second intifadeh led to spiraling violence beginning in September 2000, colossal frustration began to build in the occupied territories--and it only increased as Israel continued to demonstrate its overwhelming military advantage over the Palestinians. That encouraged the rise of movements that consider terrorism a legitimate means of resisting occupation. And indeed, suicide bombings evoke great sympathy throughout the Middle East, where their perpetrators are described as martyrs and where telethons have...