Word: islamist
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...eventually reach the Suez Canal - or launch attacks in Saudi Arabia and the other Persian Gulf countries. "Anyone who has been to Yemen knows that automatic arms, explosives, even rockets are sold out in the open - on street corners - often by people who make no secret of their Islamist affinities," says a French counterterrorism official. "It's been this enormous crossroads for people traveling from one jihad, like Iraq or Afghanistan, to another one, like Somalia...
There is little evidence that the ideology of Somalia's homegrown Islamist radicals has been imported along with the refugee population. But because bodies of African refugees have been recovered from conflict areas along the border, local media have begun to accuse the Africans of playing a role in the northern insurgency...