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...Midway through a question about whether they are actively planning for a new jihad, a third man rushes in and says something that causes Esmatullah and Sayfullah to quickly head for the door. The police are said to be on the way. Seconds later, the group that was in front of the tea shop has vanished. Across the street, Esmatullah and Sayfullah are visible, striding quickly away into the dusty shadows...
Pipes’ interest in the political climate at Harvard was piqued last spring by the uproar surrounding a Commencement Day speech whose title, “American Jihad,” had sparked angry petition drives and drew national press attention...
After the controversial Commencement speech, Pipes conducted research that he says revealed that most Middle Eastern specialists support a “soft” definition of jihad—as opposed to the definition that he endorses, which describes jihad as an aggressive military struggle...
...sprawling organization like al-Qaeda, Omar al-Faruq was the ideal operative, a man whose networking skills were at least as impressive as his appetite for destruction. Born in Kuwait on May 24, 1971, he got his first taste of jihad in the early 1990s when he trained at an al-Qaeda camp in Khaldan, Afghanistan. He spent three years at the camp, becoming close to both al-Mughira al Gaza'iri, the camp's leader, and senior bin Laden associate Abu Zubaydah. In 1995, at Abu Zubaydah's suggestion, al-Faruq procured a fake passport and traveled with...
Osama bin Laden changed all of that, identifying America as the principle foe of Islam and urging his followers to launch attacks against U.S. civilians anywhere. By the time al-Qaeda was established in something like its present shape in the early 1990s, its message was worldwide jihad. Al-Qaeda, says Zachary Abuza of Simmons College in Massachusetts, taught the locally based terrorist groups to "talk together and network." As if to make the point, al-Qaeda's leadership has never been drawn from any one country. Bin Laden is a Saudi; his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is Egyptian. Other...