Word: infidels
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...Usman Anwar, chief of police in Sargodha, the town where the five men were apprehended, says the men told interrogators they were there "for jihad" and that they were planning to launch "jihad against the U.S. infidel forces, wherever they are." (See pictures of a jihadist's journey...
Taliban spokesman Qari Yusef Ahmadi tells TIME in a telephone interview, "We don't deal with the infidel; we want to destroy them." But he admits that it's possible "low-level Taliban" are taking protection money from NATO's suppliers. Protection money is a major source of revenue for the Taliban, along with their rake-off from drug-trafficking.(Read about how crime pays for the Taliban...
...kill four American aid workers in a car bombing in Kandahar, Afghanistan. After his arrest, Shafiq Shah gave an interview to TIME in a Kabul prison in which he described the indoctrination that young fighters receive concerning the role of foreign aid workers. "[Muslim aid recipients] shouldn't eat infidel food," Shah said. "God gave us everything we need. We have bodies and hands and eyes and community - why can't those people work and get their own food? They shouldn't take anything from infidels." (Read "Are Development Dollars in Pakistan Being Well Spent...
...have [gotten] our revenge for our brother Nabhan," Shabab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage said afterward, according to Reuters. "We knew the infidel government and A.U. troops planned to attack us after the holy month. This is a message to them...
...weekend's big bang came from the Starship Enterprise. Buoyed by enthusiastic reviews, embraced by both Trek illuminati and infidel civilians alike, the new space adventure earned sage nods of commendation for the director who had modernized a middle-age franchise: J.J. Abrams, the TV-drama mogul of Alias, Lost and Fringe and a member of that ultra-exclusive club, the TIME 100. "J.J. Abrams is officially the Lazarus of movie directors," proclaimed box office stats swami Steve Mason - though Abrams' only other retooling, Mission: Impossible III, was the lowest-grossing of that action trio...