Word: fundamentalistism
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...claim when the only name most Americans recognize is bin Laden's. Other Pentagon aides leaked word that the Administration had recently considered but decided against sending commandos into Kurdish-dominated northern Iraq to knock out a clandestine chemical-weapons lab allegedly run by Ansar al-Islam, a tiny fundamentalist rebel group whose ranks are reportedly swelling with al-Qaeda fighters fleeing Afghanistan...
...Collins claims to have known many of the people involved in Islamic fundamentalist circles within the U.S., and he plainly feels their activities and intentions were no secret either to himself or the U.S. government. Even if we don't believe every story Collins tells, his dual allegiance to America and Islam provides us with an intriguing insider's perspective on the alien world of jihad. For his part, the author says he now hopes to return to Afghanistan, "not to get involved on either side," but to interview Taliban soldiers and write a new book about the group from...
...like Abu al-Fahed would have made unlikely martyrs before these two years of bloodshed. With five children, he would not have gone out to die on a suicide mission and leave his family without a wage earner. And though he is religious, like most Palestinians, he is no fundamentalist with dreams of paradise. Jobless because Israel no longer allows laborers like him to enter the country to work, faced with relentless television images of Israeli violence and surrounded by poverty, death and despair, he awaits the order that will end his life. "Every member of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades...
...gulf between the American and European views of the Middle East could not be wider, which explains why several European allies responded to President Bush's recent call for new Palestinian leadership by emphasizing that they would deal with whomever the Palestinians elect, Yasser Arafat included. Influenced by fundamentalist Judeo-Christian beliefs, many Americans tend to see the rise of modern Israel as the fulfillment of Biblical prophecies, and they have developed an identification with Israel as a trusted ally that has only been strengthened by the events of Sept. 11 and the Aqsa intifadeh. While condemning suicide bombings...
...senior research fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels. "The continuing violence puts more and more pressure on moderate pro-Western governments such as those in Jordan and Egypt. An attack on Iraq without solving the Israeli-Palestinian situation could lead to a takeover by Islamic fundamentalist factions in those countries...