Word: harakat
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...name is short for Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya (Islamic Resistance Movement), but in Arabic hamas simply means "zeal." Throughout the year, the Muslim fundamentalist group showed that growing numbers of young men--and women--are willing to blow themselves up for their cause. But many Palestinians fear that with each attack international support for that cause withers...
...battered teenager who saw his mother, a small-time dealer and full-time addict, murdered by drug runners when he was eight. After being sentenced to a maximum security prison in California for armed robbery in 1991, he found Islam. From there he headed to Afghanistan to train with Harakat-ul Jihad, then to Chechnya, where he lost a leg in a firefight with Russian special forces, and finally to Kosovo to help fight the Serbs. He describes with childlike glee his love of weapons and tactics. A daring nighttime raid on a Russian bunker becomes a brutal game when...
Cooperation is not limited to the big democracies: Pakistan's central bank has ordered private banks to freeze accounts held by Harakat ul-Mujahedin, a group fighting Indian rule in Kashmir that is on the U.S. list. And the financial crackdown has received cooperation from a wide list of nations that includes China, Colombia, Costa Rica and the Czech Republic...
...Harakat ul-Mujahedin, an Islamic group based in Pakistan, is seeking to end Indian control in the disputed region of Kashmir. It has claimed responsibility for killing Indian soldiers and civilians but denies it is a terrorist group. It culls donations from Gulf Arabs and runs training camps in Afghanistan. The U.S. State Department says its former leader has ties to bin Laden...
KASHMIR Groups: Harakat ul Mujahedin, Sipah e Sahaba Kashmir...