Word: chieftan
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...does not join al Qaeda. Starts using the name Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi and sets up his own terrorist-training camp in Herat, near Afghanistan's western border with Iran. The camp becomes an Islamic commune of jihadis and their families with al-Zarqawi as their emir, or military chieftan...