Word: islamist
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...ghastly attacks. President Richard Nixon's famous "tilt" toward Pakistan, decades of American support for Pakistan's military dictators and America's turning a blind eye to Pakistan's involvement in a long series of terrorist attacks against India have borne fruit in the form of worldwide Islamist terrorism. These dreadful attacks will continue unless international pressure is brought to bear on Pakistan's government to bring its military under control. Chuncha Mel Ramakrishna, Cherry Hill, New Jersey...
...fact that the two last forces to offer anything approaching a stabilizing presence in Somalia - the Ethiopian army and a small African Union peacekeeping force - are expected to withdraw in the next few weeks. (In the case of the Ethiopians, who invaded in late 2006 to topple an Islamist government and who have been accused of atrocities during their stay, whether they have been a force for or against stabilization is hotly debated...
...significant piece of statesmanship in the last year. He entered into a peace deal with Somali Islamic factions that have come together under the umbrella Alliance for the Reliberation of Somalia. Somalis greeted it with a shred of hope, even though the move was mostly symbolic. The Islamist campaign is now being run by another group, al-Shabaab, which has made a steady comeback since Ethiopian troops pushed them from the capital, Mogadishu, on Christmas Eve two years ago. (See the top 10 news stories...
...goal is to weaken international terrorists, escalating in Afghanistan today makes almost as little sense as George Bush’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003. An escalation in Afghanistan would inevitably bring more civilian casualties, more anti-American resentment, and in the end more recruits to Islamist terror. Last August cannon fire from one of our AC-130 gunships killed dozens of civilians, and then in October a called-in air strike killed 25 to 30 civilians, including 18 women and children. This is not a war on terror; to Afghan civilians, it only creates terror...
...Meeting the press in Islamabad, Rice shied away from pointing a finger at Pakistan, saying only that Pakistan had a "special responsibility" in dealing with the aftermath of the attacks. This was despite the claims of an anonymous American defense official in the New York Times linking the militant Islamist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which allegedly trained the Mumbai attackers, to ex-officers in Pakistan's intelligence service. Indian officials believe that the LeT masterminded these attacks, as well as previous ones on the country's Parliament building in 2001 - grounds, some suggest, for targeted strikes against the group...