Word: extremist
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...over manifestations of Islamic identity reflect the anxieties of a public still trying to comprehend how Britain could have spawned four home-grown suicide bombers, who killed 52 people in last year's attack on the London Underground. And Britain's domestic security services warn that some 200 Islamic extremist networks - involving around 1,600 individuals - continue to plot and plan on British soil...
...plus U.S. deaths in Iraq. And the Sunnis have friends. The U.S. has long accused Syria of harboring both Iraqi Baathists and jihadis of various nationalities who infiltrate Iraq to make mischief. And Iraqi officials routinely claim that the insurgency receives money and men from extremist organizations in neighboring Sunni-majority countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Jordan...
Abizaid said that extremists in the region fell into Sunni and Shi’ite extremist camps...
...compared the rise of the Sunni extremist camp—in the form of Al-Qaeda and afilliated-groups—to the rise of Fascism in Europe during the 1920s...
Knowing that also explains why the lefty caricature that Republicans paint of Pelosi has never quite stuck. Hers is not the loopy liberalism of San Francisco, where you can be branded as a right-wing extremist if you vote, as Pelosi once did, for cracking down on rave parties. The politicians in her family were progressives of a rougher cut, rooted in the Depression and the New Deal and in doing things for desperate people who turned to the government when there was nothing else for them...