Word: jihadism
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Working with Abbas's own security force, the American advance team cased out houses around the Muqataa compound where the two leaders would meet. Palestinian police arrested more than 300 militants belonging to Hamas and Islamic Jihad. One Israeli police official said that the American delegation, fearing that a bomb might be hidden in the table or chairs where Bush and Abbas were talking, decided to bring their own furniture from Washington. On the day itself, Palestinian soldiers lined the roads and closed off traffic...
...Romney believes that radical jihad is the greatest threat facing our nation, and he understands that it is an ideological war not won solely through military force. He has supported the troop surge and would seek victory in Iraq—a victory involving the establishment of a liberal, stable central government for Iraqis that could expel the terrorist threat...
...Sindh and the Punjab of the traditional ruling classes roiled Pakistan. In 1977, the military government stepped in, hanging Bhutto in 1979 over controversial charges of conspiracy to murder. The country's grief turned to rage in its adolescence. The Soviet invasion of neighboring Afghanistan in 1979 sparked a jihad. Death and martyrdom became an honorable answer to oppressive power, a legacy that Pakistan has been unable to shrug...
...group accused in Bhutto's killing, Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, was also among the alphabet soup of militant groups that were spawned by the Afghan war.One of the most vicious of these groups called itself Sipah-e-Sahaba and used religious justifications for jihad from an austere sect of Islam called Deobandi, similar to the ideology of the Taliban. Sipah-e-Sahaba and similar groups believe that one obligation of "true Muslims" is to kill so-called apostates like Shi'ites. In the early 1990s, these veterans from the Afghan wars, with no more war to fight, launched a bloody sectarian...
...offers a prime example of how the threat of terror is rising even as it becomes more complex. Though its strikes have thus far been limited to Algerian soil, the group claiming responsibility for the strikes - al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) - has signaled its desire to internationalize its jihad. With Tuesday's violence marking the first time AQIM has struck foreign targets in a major attack in Algeria, security officials fear it signals a significant broadening of the group's terror action that will inevitably reach Europe itself...