Word: jihadism
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...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 the U.S. remains deeply hostile to al-Qaeda, and its precarious position viz-a-viz U.S. power would make it reluctant to allow its Palestinian "guests" to openly threaten terror attacks on U.S. interests. While the U.S. concurs...
...November's bombings of synagogues and British targets in Istanbul, in which 61 were killed, and the August bombing of U.N. headquarters in Baghdad in which 22 died. Some intelligence experts take the Brigades seriously--they could be "the new military wing of al-Qaeda in charge of external jihad," says Mustafa Alani, a Middle East security expert at London's Royal Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies--but no one has verified its role in those attacks. Even so, there is no question that the November bombings of the British consulate and a British-based bank in Istanbul...
Reports out of Islamabad suggest that the Pakistani military has cornered a top al-Qaeda leader in the rugged northwestern province of Waziristan - and some government officials are saying unofficially that the man their forces have surrounded may be Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian Islamic Jihad leader who has operated as Osama bin Laden's Number 2 and is widely viewed as the intellectual architect of al-Qaeda's global strategy. TIME Islamabad Bureau Chief Tim McGirk spoke with TIME.com from the Pakistani capital about this breaking story...
...Diverse groups, some of them launched by veterans of the Afghan camps, others entirely local may be bound 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...
...terrorists by defusing some of the key sources of Muslim anger at the U.S. - particularly the occupation of Iraq, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - which are exploited by al-Qaeda to rally support. Many European leaders believe the Iraq war has fueled rather than doused the fires of jihad. And March 11 in Madrid has given the Europeans a greater claim to a leading role in defining the West's response to terrorism...