Word: jihadi
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...Qaeda sees it, too. The latest surge of violence began only days after an Internet message attributed to al-Qaeda's purported leader in Saudi Arabia, Abdul Aziz al-Muqrin, a high school dropout and veteran of jihad in Afghanistan, Somalia, Bosnia and Algeria. "We instruct the jihadi youth to direct their efforts against the Crusaders," he commanded. "Kill them wherever you find them." On May 1, four terrorists carried out an assault in Yanbu on the Red Sea, killing five foreigners. The late May blitz on Khobar was far more devastating. Beginning about 7:30 a.m., four young fanatics...
...ASSASSINATED. AKHMAD KADYROV, 52, Chechnya's controversial pro-Moscow President; from injuries sustained in a bombing; in Grozny. A volatile leader, he was once a fearsome jihadi mufti, or interpreter of Shari'a law, who fought for Chechnyan independence. But in 1999 Kadyrov switched sides, saying the movement was getting too religiously radical. The murdered President once said, "There have been so many attempts on my life that I have lost count...
...Despite its ideological affinity with the global jihadi cause, analysts believe Hamas had previously rebuffed efforts to draw it directly into the al-Qaeda orbit. Some in the organization have advocated attacking American targets, but their position has been in the minority. Hamas leaders had wanted to maintain their independence and also to profit from the wider Arab sympathy engendered by its position as an exclusively Palestinian-national movement targeting the Israelis (as opposed to becoming just another local chapter of Osama bin Laden's global jihad). The movement's headquarters is in Damascus, which despite its frosty relations with...
...together less by organizational loyalty to bin Laden than by a commitment to the ideas he personifies - global jihad against the U.S. and its allies. In the language of commerce, al-Qaeda has become a brand, with bin Laden its symbol -a signifier that immediately explains its content. Local jihadi groups in Iraq or Turkey that have no operational contact with bin Laden's leadership cadre nonetheless proclaim their affiliation with al-Qaeda, because that association amplifies the meaning of a specific action - the bombing of a hotel in Istanbul or an embassy in Baghdad - by tying...
...willing recruits. Even such establishment voices as London's prestigious International Institute of Strategic Studies, which supported the Iraq war and hosted President Bush's during his recent state visit to Britain, concludes that the hostility sparked by the Iraq war has substantially increased the growth potential for jihadi terror groups. Rather than isolating the jihadis in Arab public opinion and starving them of support, the effect of the war has been to move their view of the U.S. closer to the mainstream...