Word: guerrillaism
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...Laden and his followers in the past year has finally granted them the stature they crave. And their failure was by no means a given. Not so long ago, the jihadists appeared to be moving from one success to another: first the Iranian revolution in 1979, then the successful guerrilla war that forced the Soviet army from Afghanistan in 1989. But in Saudi Arabia following the Gulf War, for example, a rupture appeared between moderate Islamists--those of the pious middle classes imbued with conservatism--and the more radical movements that view the Wahhabi kingdom as a U.S. protectorate that...
...Qadir, had been assassinated there in July - prompting U.S. personnel to take over the president's security. The mounting campaign of bombings and ambushes of government and U.S. targets over the summer underscore not only the fragility of the U.S.-backed Karzai regime, but also a resurgent anti-American guerrilla campaign by forces including, but not confined to the Taliban and al-Qaeda...
...attacks follow public statements by elements close to al-Qaeda and the Taliban promising a new guerrilla campaign against the U.S. and the Karzai government. Earlier this week, the notorious Pashtun warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar declared a 'jihad' for the ouster of foreign forces from Afghanistan. With Karzai's authority limited to the capital, much of the countryside in the hands of fickle warlords and many Pashtuns suspicious of the disproportionate dominance of ethnic Tajiks in his government, the remnants of the Taliban may be finding fertile ground for a resurgence. Beside the bomb blasts and assassination attempts in the capital...
Such stealthy efforts are but one phase of a larger growth industry of alternative and guerrilla marketing that ranges from handing out free samples to sponsoring concerts and other events. "We need to take our brand to them and not wait for them to come to us," says Hilary Dart, president of Calvin Klein Cosmetics. Its estimated $45 million campaign to launch the men's fragrance Crave this fall will include street sampling, product seeding among opinion leaders and other guerrilla tactics (even building sand sculptures of the Crave logo on beaches on both coasts) before any ads are unveiled...
...hundreds of boxes from which mail is sent to a sorting office in Trenton, New Jersey, where four anthrax-laced letters were postmarked last year. COLOMBIA State of Emergency Newly installed President Alvaro Uribe declared a state of emergency in response to a wave of attacks by Marxist guerrilla groups. The decision will allow the President to impose new legal and security measures to confront what his government called "a regime of terror in which democratic authority is sinking." As one of the first consequences of the state of emergency, the government decreed a one-time tax, which is aimed...