Word: jihadi
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...every year of the past decade, hundreds of young militants who have undergone intensive commando training and countless hours of indoctrination by jihadi groups have been picked up in unmarked vehicles from towns around Pakistan-administered Kashmir and ferried to the border. There, after they have had a day or two of rest, military officers have briefed them, handed them rifles, explosives and wads of Indian currency, and introduced them to guides like Ilyas, who lead them to probable death...
...well on the jihadi front. The terrorism espoused by several militant groups has effectively dirtied a cause even moderate Pakistanis consider sacred. Indigenous Kashmiri militants, for their part, complain privately that Pakistan has hijacked their movement by throwing into the mix extremists alien to their moderate culture. Indeed, the two groups India accuses of masterminding the bombing of its Parliament are dominated by non-Kashmiri zealots, many of them veterans of the Afghan-Soviet...
...Omar still keeps a tight grip on his Kandahar through his loyal corps commander, Akhtar Usmani. A native of Helmand, Usmani's a pragmatist, not a die-hard jihadi, and if the tide turns seriously against the Taliban in the southern provinces, he might step forward and negotiate Kandahar's surrender. He's held in check, to some extent by the 25-year old police chief, Hafez Majid (Mullah Omar owes the kid his life for pulling him out the wreckage after a truck bomb destroyed his house in Kandahar several years back.) Majid is fanatically devoted to Mullah Omar...
...Pakistan's Musharraf has a much tougher job. So far, the general has made encouraging noises about a dialogue with India, but his government still gives active support to more than a dozen mujahedin groups fighting in Kashmir. The Jihadis, as these zealots are known, are backed by the Pakistani army and the country's religious right. These groups, which have a good deal of leverage over Musharraf, threaten not only a possible Kashmir peace but Pakistan's own stability. "The Pakistani government is in a stituation where it supports jihadi groups," says a Western diplomat in Islamabad. "They have...
...P.L.O. themes, chanting "Allah helps those who help themselves" or "Palestine is our Holy Land." Their call to the barricades is made more effective by Islam's reverence for martyrdom. For now, the voice of Islam speaks from a small base, with the various local groups like Jihadi Islami and Mujama Islami claiming at most a few thousand members. But they have served as an emotional framework for the aimless ire of the rebels...