Word: arabism
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...thirds of the "known leadership of al-Qaeda" has been captured or killed. Its training camps in Afghanistan have been destroyed and the relentless worldwide campaign to target al-Qaeda has denied it new sanctuaries; cooperation between the U.S. and Europe and the intelligence services of the Arab and Muslim world has netted or eliminated many key operatives and foiled a number of terror plots; and much of its financial support has been choked...
...faithful and the infidels." The attacks would show prospective jihadists that the U.S. could be bloodied at the very heart of its power, and that this would help convince millions of Muslim youth that by turning to arms, they could defeat the Americans and their local allies throughout the Arab and Muslim world. They also expected that the attacks - and the inevitable U.S. military action they would provoke - would create a crisis in the pro-U.S. regimes of the Arab and Muslim world by forcing Muslims to choose between the Islamists and an increasingly aggressive...
...immediate aftermath of 9/11 few in the Muslim mainstream identified with the terror attacks. That much was obvious from the wave of denial that blamed the attacks on the Mossad or the CIA. The truth - that the callous murder of almost 3,000 civilians was carried out by 19 Arab men who considered themselves devout and pious Muslims carrying out a blessed act - was too horrific to swallow. Cowardly attacks on civilians elicited little pride in the Muslim world, and plenty of revulsion. That was why they had to be blamed on somebody else...
...movement. And, if anything, the actions of the U.S. in the course of the administration's "war on terror" have substantially increased both groups - those willing to support or engage in violent against Americans; and those who view America as the enemy of Islam. U.S. diplomats working in the Arab world freely acknowledge that over the past two years, America's standing across all strata of the Arab world, from the growing army of angry young men with no job prospects in their stagnant economies to the liberal middle class and intelligentsia enjoying the fruits of globalization, has fallen...
...invasion of Iraq appears to have offered al-Qaeda its greatest growth opportunity yet. While the Bush administration's prewar claims about a significant connection between Iraq and al-Qaeda appear to have been spurious, they may nonetheless have created a self-fulfilling prophesy. Arab and Muslim outrage at the U.S. occupation of Iraq has created a new organizing principle for al-Qaeda, whose spokesmen now urge their followers worldwide to make their way to Iraq to wage jihad against the invaders. For bin Laden's followers, the growing insurgency in Iraq is more than simply a golden opportunity...