Word: jihadeers
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...staunch patron of pro-Taliban policies, Ahmad is thought to have opposed Pakistan's new alliance with the U.S. Musharraf had reason to fear that segments of the ISI might thwart promised cooperation with U.S. intelligence. And it is said that Musharraf hit the roof when an ISI-linked jihad group devoted to wresting Muslim Kashmir from Indian control took responsibility for a blast in the Indian city of Srinagar two weeks ago that killed 42. The target and the timing--just when Musharraf was fending off accusations that Pakistan sponsors terrorism and asking Washington to take a more balanced...
...government buildings in the capital of Islamabad. Heavily armed riot police ringed the city of Quetta near the Afghan border, where angry protests all last week left five people dead. Soldiers huddled behind sandbags and armored-personnel carriers patrolled the streets in restive Peshawar while young men shouted for jihad. Militants roamed through the port city of Karachi, burning, looting and clashing with police as they chanted, "Osama, nuclear power of the Muslim world!" As Muslim sympathizers of Osama bin Laden and the Taliban whipped up fury in the streets, Musharraf's show of force kept the protests under relative...
...staunch patron of pro-Taliban policies, Ahmad is thought to have opposed Pakistan's new alliance with the U.S. Musharraf had reason to fear that segments of the ISI might thwart promised cooperation with U.S. intelligence. And it is said that Musharraf hit the roof when an ISI-linked jihad group devoted to wresting Muslim Kashmir from Indian control took responsibility for a blast in the Indian city of Srinagar two weeks ago that killed 42. The target and the timing?just when Musharraf was fending off accusations that Pakistan sponsors terrorism and asking Washington to take a more balanced...
...skilled professionals like doctors scrape by on $15 a month. Now Uzbeks have reason to be increasingly worried: three days after the U.S. began its strikes on Afghanistan, the leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Tahir Yuldash, announced that his fighters and the Taliban would launch a jihad against the "puppet government" of Uzbekistan. Says one Uzbek businessman: "Something had to be done about terrorism in Afghanistan. It is important for our security. But we can't do it alone. Now we have the United States with us. That is good...
...Mohamed Atta, born to a middle-class Egyptian family and radicalized by ideas imbibed at German universities—or from the host of Muslim clerics, of imams and mullahs, across the Middle East and Asia, who have fallen over themselves to provide religious justifications for an anti-American jihad. This is not a new phenomenon: revolutionary movements have always found their leaders among discontented middle and upper class types. Think of Danton and Robespierre; think of Lenin...