Word: jihadism
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...Incensed by the escape from a PA prison in Hebron of 17 Hamas and Islamic Jihad detainees the previous day, Arafat reportedly lost his temper during a meeting in his Ramallah office, slapping his security chief Jibril Rajoub. More colorful accounts even had Arafat drawing a gun, prompting both men's bodyguards to do the same. PA insiders dispute reports that Arafat pulled out a firearm, but confirmed that the aging Palestinian leader had indeed slapped Rajoub. PA leaders were hard at work Thursday reconciling...
...Arafat was understandably livid that Rajoub's men failed to stand up to a crowd that had stormed the Hebron prison seeking the release of Hamas and Islamic Jihad prisoners. After all, he faces unrelenting pressure from Israel and the U.S. to do more to crack down on terrorism, and pays a political price for any perceived failure. Further, he believes the situation is deteriorating because of what he sees as negligence on the part of his security apparatus. Three months ago, Arafat reportedly unleashed a similar (though not physical) tirade against his Gaza security chief, Mohammed Dahlan...
...threat of Islamic terrorism. Here he's referring to the fact that more than 1,000 fighters from all over the Arab and Muslim world came to help the Bosnian Muslims against the Serbs. They called themselves "mujahedeen," and many of them were itinerant veterans of the anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan. Serb leaders at the time described their fight as one against terrorism, and even today pro-Milosevic propagandists use the term "Taliban" to describe their enemies in Bosnia and Kosovo...
...mujahedin," says the French official. Accompanying that document was a letter Cherifi wanted read to his son, then just 18 months old, in the event of his death. "It urged the boy to fulfill his father's dream of becoming a warrior of Islam and martyr of jihad...
...hours on Palestinian security targets in Gaza City, and sent its tanks back into the Palestinian city of Nablus in the West Bank. And that, in turn, prompted a crowd of 300 militant supporters to storm the Palestinian Authority prison in Hebron late Monday, freeing 10 Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders...