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...Zarqawi, "now rivals Osama bin Laden in influence among Middle Eastern and European jihadists." Such stories exaggerate the importance of al-Qaeda and al-Zarqawi. He is nothing but a low-level hit man. And now the media have enhanced his grandeur, providing more motivation to the harebrained Islamist yokels terrorizing the world! These people thrive on sensational news stories. Will the media please stop glorifying the horrendous activities of these burned-out thugs and stop labeling them "jihadists"? Brigadier Mateen M. Mohajir (Ret.) Karachi...
...between the country's Sunni Muslims, who constitute 74% of the population, and its Alawites, a minority sect that claims 12% of Syrians, including the Assads. Many Sunnis harbor bitter memories of the regime's killing of 20,000 people in Hama in 1982, while the Alawites fear that Islamist groups will someday seek to avenge the slaughter. "It's a scary thing," says Joshua Landis, an American professor who has spent the past 10 months in Syria. "We don't know how bad things could...
...Zarqawi, "now rivals Osama bin Laden in influence among Middle Eastern and European jihadists." Such stories exaggerate the importance of al-Qaeda and al-Zarqawi. He is nothing but a low-level hit man. And now the media have enhanced his grandeur, providing more motivation to the harebrained Islamist yokels terrorizing the world! These people thrive on sensational news stories. Will the media please stop glorifying the horrendous activities of these burned-out thugs and stop labeling them "jihadists?" Brigadier Mateen M. Mohajir (ret.) Karachi
...travelers from more conservative regions. The sleepy little republic, which is home to a mix of ethnic Russians and Muslims, was also largely free of the insurgency that has set much of the North Caucasus - Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia - aflame. Even when the security services cracked down on alleged radical Islamists, closing mosques and harassing bearded men, few people took note. All that changed last week when around 100 heavily armed guerrillas fanned out across the city to attack at least 10 major government targets. The sudden assault completely surprised authorities, all the way to Moscow. For 24 hours, the rebels...
...Palestinians, the elation that accompanied Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip has been replaced by fear that a bloody struggle will erupt between Abbas' security services and the myriad armed groups proliferating in the Palestinian territories. Abbas has had limited success in persuading the Islamist group Hamas to halt rocket attacks against Israel. But his more troublesome quandary is how to deal with militia leaders like Abu Samhadana, who nominally belong to Abbas' Fatah party but operate outside anyone's control. U.S. officials estimate that there are 3,000 Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank who consider themselves...