Word: jihadism
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...line in Israel's campaign against Palestinian terrorist groups. Beyond the apricot orchard at the foot of his garden, white pickets mark the Lebanese border. The plain stretches from there to the dusty heights of Syria, where Israeli jets last week struck a training camp of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. At the other edge of the fruit field on Monday, a sniper hid in the Lebanese village of Kafr Kileh, which abuts the border fence, and shot dead an Israeli soldier in revenge for the air raid. "It's a new era of terror," says Melzer, a lawyer in this...
...Doing Their Part "The jihad strikes back" [notebook, Sept. 1] creates the impression that Pakistan is not doing enough to stop the Taliban regrouping in border areas abutting Afghanistan. Nothing can be further from the truth. No country has done more to fight the global menace of terrorism than Pakistan. Our security agencies have netted some 400 al-Qaeda operatives, including those at the top of the organization's hierarchy. Pakistan has always endeavored to nurture friendly relations with Afghanistan based on principles of mutual respect and noninterference. Any suggestion that omissions on Pakistan's part may be adding...
...handed over to the U.S., local officials say, and has probably been transferred to Guantánamo Bay. Peace Setback ISRAEL A suicide bomb attack at a restaurant in the northern port of Haifa killed at least 19 people and injured up to 50. The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Hours later, Israeli helicopter gunships struck two locations in the Gaza Strip. The violence came just before Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Conflict of Interest ALGERIA The governmental crisis deepened as the main political party, the National Liberation Front (FLN), withdrew...
...Iraqi intelligence in Baghdad in 1992 and 1998. More disturbing, according to an administration official familiar with briefings the CIA has given President Bush, the Agency has ‘irrefutable evidence’ that the Iraqi regime paid Zawahiri $300,000 in 1998, around the time his Islamic Jihad was merging with al Qaeda...
...theory that Iraq will become the theater of terrorists is naive thinking. The situation in Iraq is more analogous to the Afghan jihad in the sense that resistance is coming mainly from within the country. Yes, jihadis have been attracted to Iraq, just like during the Afghan-Soviet war, but the more ominous development is the growth of global extremism as a reaction to the Iraqi situation and the proliferation of recruits to global terrorism or of terrorist groups. Many of these groups continue to fight in their own countries or regions as well as to espouse global terrorism...