Word: jihadism
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brothers, leaders of Jihad." The author, U.S. military officials have concluded, was Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, whom U.S. intelligence believes is al-Qaeda's top operative in Iraq. If the memo is what Washington says it is, and if its author is not exaggerating, then al-Qaeda has played a greater role in the insurgency in Iraq than anyone has appreciated. The letter's author claims to have overseen 25 suicide attacks against various targets in Iraq, which would constitute almost all such assaults since the U.S. rolled into Iraq...
...report and other files captured with Ghul suggest a long-term strategy by an international terrorism organization to turn occupied Iraq into the front line of the global jihad. The memo, whose discovery was first reported by the New York Times, expresses frustration that the fight in Iraq has not been more successful as well as concern that it will soon fail. But, as a final strategy to upset U.S. efforts to stabilize Iraq, the memo suggests provoking strife between the country's two main religious factions--the Sunnis and the Shi'ites--through attacks on Shi'ites, who would...
Fields of Jihad Al-Qaeda operatives may be trying to turn Iraq into the crucible of a global holy...
...Fighting a jihad against the Americans and their allies is something obligatory in our religion," says Wushyar Salah Hama Aref, 26. Until he was arrested last October by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Aref was a top commander in Ansar al-Islam, the Kurdish terror organization. "We know that the Americans have the technology and the power," he said last Saturday, when TIME was allowed into the Kurdish-run jail to see imprisoned Ansar leaders. "But our belief is stronger...
...starts in the classroom and that ends up making large numbers of non-Muslims ignorant enough to vote for the racist, anti-immigration presidential candidate Jean-Marie LePen. And, it will hopefully stem the small numbers of Muslims frustrated enough to travel to the Middle East to train for Jihad. American dollar bills read, “In God We Trust,” but French Euro coins say “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité.” And French experience shows that fraternity develops best when education is kept thoroughly free of religious identifications and separations...