Word: jihadeers
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...small amount that wouldn't last long. But the Pentagon didn't envision that thousands of American troops would be under almost constant attack by guerrillas or that so many of the fighters would be foreigners who regard the U.S. occupation of Iraq as the Super Bowl of jihad. The Pentagon apparently calculated that as the country settled down and its oil spigots opened and helped finance reconstruction, resistance would quickly be marginalized. Even after it became clear this summer that attacks on allied troops were intensifying, Rumsfeld described them as the exertions of a few Baathist "dead-enders...
...running into view, passing under a line of barb wire, as explosions rip in the background. They give an after action report to their commander: "We exploded it. We are Mohammed's Second Army. Whatever you order us to do, we'll do it, sir, for the sake of jihad, our country, our religion and our Islam, in one strong hand. We will die for the sake of Saddam Hussein and to bring him back to run this country...
...shabby, multiethnic west London shopping mall, robed men sit placidly at a stall offering Islamist pamphlets and videos on Shari'a law or jihad in Chechnya. They hope a black Islamic flag and a display of postcard-size stickers advertising a conference on Sept. 11 will attract the curious. On closer inspection, it is clear the conference's message will be anything but passive. The stickers at the al-Muhajiroun group's stall depict THE MAGNIFICENT 19, a lineup of the 9/11 hijackers set against New York City's burning Twin Towers and a smiling Osama bin Laden...
...city dubbed "Londonistan" for its large population of fervent Islamists, British security forces have done little since 9/11 to quell provocateurs like al-Muhajiroun, which is widely suspected of influencing young men to join the jihad. Many of the MAGNIFICENT 19 stickers plastered on lampposts and walls across Britain have been scratched off by authorities, but police rarely disrupt al-Muhajiroun's stalls or meetings. Last month police raided the homes of the group's leaders, Sheik Omar Bakri Muhammad and Anjem Choudary, but both men remain at liberty...
...office of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, says, "Every time we've done research, we find out more about how extensive it actually is." She believes Jemaah Islamiah has "thousands of followers." But unless internal sectarian strife flares anew or Iraq becomes the kind of rallying point for jihad that Afghanistan was, Indonesia's militant radicals will have to convince potential recruits that attacking Western targets at home is an honorable way to fight the infidel. The Marriott bombing did little for that pitch. The victims were mostly Indonesian Muslims. "There's unquestionably a huge sense of outrage," says...