Word: jihadism
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...State Department to link Arafat's Authority to the arms, though the U.S. won't tie Arafat directly to the boat. Arafat's advisers say he expects the U.S. to use his embarrassment over the Karine A to make him crack down on Hamas and another violent group, Islamic Jihad, a long-standing demand by Israel and the U.S. "I don't envy him," says an Arafat aide. "He's very isolated...
...Ashcroft also suggested that Walker may have met with Osama bin Laden personally during a visit to a training; bin Laden reportedly thanked Walker and several other trainees for joining in jihad...
...Sayyaf was founded in 1991 by Abdurajak Janjalani, who returned to his native Basilian after a spell in Afghanistan, where he'd gone to join the anti-Soviet jihad. Janjalani's militant group was funded by front organizations linked with al Qaeda, and had hosted 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef during his stay in the Philippines. Yousef, who had trained with Janjalani in a camp at Khost, hoped to use Abu Sayyaf operatives to attack U.S. airliners in the Philippines. The Filipino organization's longstanding affection for the Pakistani terrorist is reflected in the fact that they typically...
...rival MILF, which has remained outside of the 1996 peace deal, has nonetheless been in negotiations with the government since declaring a cease-fire last August. Although more Islamist in orientation than the MNLF, the MILF publicly rejected Bin Laden's calls for global jihad last October, emphasizing that its primary concern was to bring peace to the southern Philippines. So the tiny Abu Sayyaf is essentially alone, and could potentially be finished off even within the six months allocated for the initial joint exercise between U.S. and Philippine military personnel on Basilian...
...have much trouble doing so again. The crucial test, however, will come from within his own security services. The Islamist organizations targeted by General Musharraf have served as de facto proxies for Pakistan's intelligence services, cultivating a reserve of militant Pakistanis willing to be recruited and trained for jihad both in Afghanistan and Kashmir, in service not only to their own brand of radical Islam but also of the unofficial dirty war being waged against India in Kashmir. During the course of the U.S. operation in Afghanistan, Musharraf was forced to mount a top-level purge...