Word: jihadism
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...wonder how many of these countries have maps that make no reference to the state of Israel or textbooks that include gems like this one from the Palestinian territories: “my brother, the oppressor [referring to Israelis] has crossed the line and the time has come for jihad and martyrdom.” Harvard, with its influence both on its own students and on students everywhere, must do more to combat these dangerous perceptions...
...Florida, and he stayed there until 1992, when he turned 22. After his release, Padilla embraced Islam, and in 1998 he moved to Egypt. While on a religious pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia in February 2000, he got cozy with al-Qaeda operatives, who recruited him to train for jihad in Afghanistan, the government claimed in court records. On July 24, 2000, he allegedly filled out a five-page "Mujahadeen Data Form," or membership application...
...Taliban - any more than the killing of Musab al-Zarqawi did in the case of the Iraq insurgency. A Taliban spokesman on Monday hailed Dadullah as a martyr, announcing that his brother had been appointed to take his place. "This is not going to slow down the Taliban jihad," spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi said by telephone reading a statement attributed to the movement's fugitive leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar. That remains to be proved in the field, but the Iraq experience has conditioned Western officials to lower expectations arising from the elimination of even key insurgent leaders...
...rallying point. His persona was used to recruit new fighters by the Taliban, with leaflets distributed only last week in Zabul province urging former mujahedin who had fought the Soviets in the 1980s to rally behind him. After losing a leg as a young mujaheed in the anti-Soviet jihad, Dadullah rose through the ranks of the Taliban, becoming a member of its 10-man leadership council. His death, therefore, makes him the highest-profile Taliban leader to be killed since the U.S.-led invasion...
...People who are going to the jihad in Iraq are from as far away as Morocco, and their favorite transit point is the Damascus airport," says a senior U.S. official. Syrian officials counter that the U.S. can't close its own borders with Mexico and Canada. But Rice and her team pointed out that the Syrian government is one of the few that doesn't demand that visitors from other Arab nations obtain visas to enter their territory. Moreover, says a U.S. official, "We're not asking them to do us any favors. We believe they understand that being...