Word: jihadism
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...determine when and where al-Qaeda might strike? According to Omar Bakri Muhammad, the London-based leader of the radical Muslim al-Muhajiroun youth movement, the time is now and the place could be anywhere. The Muslim month of Ramadan, which began Nov. 6, is "the month of jihad," he told TIME, when "the inspiration of fighting against occupiers and invaders will be very high. So that is why I would not be surprised if al-Qaeda strikes in the month of Ramadan." While they try to anticipate the next attack, security forces are sifting through previous ones for clues...
...Yemen has it's own reasons for wanting to rid itself of al-Qaeda. The country sent thousands of young men to join the anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan in the 1980s, and hundreds more drifted over there in the 1990s and became disciples of bin Laden. That left Yemen with one of the Arab world's largest concentrations of al-Qaeda supporters, which threatens President Saleh's plans to strengthen ties with the West. Recent suspected al-Qaeda operations in Yemen have included attacks on a French oil tanker and a U.S. oil company, underscoring the terrorist threat...
...accumulation of disorder in Pakistan is such that it could well be the next Yugoslavia," Weaver warns in Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 284 pages). Worse, actually--it's Yugoslavia with an atomic arsenal that could fall into the hands of terrorists should the country disintegrate. It also has a dozen or so private Islamic militias, all eager to install a religious regime, and a powerful intelligence service--"a kingdom within the state," she calls it--shot through with bin Laden sympathizers...
...Mixed in with the genuine terrorists are a 16-year old boy, two 90-year old Afghans ("They look 110," remarked one visitor), a Sudanese TV cameraman from the al-Jazeera network, and scores of hapless Pakistani youths who heeded the cry of jihad but found themselves abandoned and robbed on the battlefield by their fleeing Taliban brethren. Others were packed off to Guantanamo because they failed to pay extortion money to Kandahar city's secret police chief - supposedly a U.S. ally - who then denounced them as bin Laden henchmen...
...Because while al-Qaeda is waging a global 'jihad' against all things Western, the Chechens are fighting a war for national survival and independence. Seizing the theater was a brutal, heartless act of terrorism, no question. But al-Qaeda would have blown up the theater and everyone in it as soon as they were inside, and then celebrated the fact that they killed 800 Russians. These Chechens actually had a series of demands - they were totally unrealistic, of course, and there was no way Putin was ever going to agree to withdraw his forces from Chechnya. Nor did they have...