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...When we transfer the equipment for them, it's for internal security and self-defense," the official says. "There's no 'for al-Qaeda use only' tag on it." Unlike the Taliban and al-Qaeda operating further north along the mountainous Afghan border region, however, the Baluch are not Islamist militants. "They are secular and anti-Taliban," says Samina Ahmed of the International Crisis Group, "yet American guns are being used against them." (Bugti says he's an agnostic, and some clan leaders espouse socialist values and enjoy whisky.) Baluch sources say that U.S. surveillance aircraft and Cobra gunships have...
...Joins the mujahedin in Afghanistan. Works as a correspondent for radical Islamist magazine Al Bunyan Al Marsus...
...After the fall of the Taliban, al-Zarqawi crosses into Iran and then into northern Iraq in 2002 where he joins up with Islamist militants...
...suggest that we take back the word Christian while giving the religious right a new adjective: Christianist. Christianity, in this view, is simply a faith. Christianism is an ideology, politics, an ism. The distinction between Christian and Christianist echoes the distinction we make between Muslim and Islamist. Muslims are those who follow Islam. Islamists are those who want to wield Islam as a political force and conflate state and mosque. Not all Islamists are violent. Only a tiny few are terrorists. And I should underline that the term Christianist is in no way designed to label people on the religious...
...mounting attacks on both Israel and on Palestinian institutions in the hope of undermining the new Hamas government. The idea that Fatah can, in the near future, be voted back into power looks farfetched to close observers of Palestinian politics. Indeed, many fear that if the decision by the Islamists to enter democratic politics is thwarted by the West, the real beneficiaries will not be Fatah, but al-Qaeda - which has long told Hamas that entering democratic politics is a dead-end road for an Islamist movement. The U.S. may yet prove it right...