Word: jihadism
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...contrast to the large political and welfare arms of Hamas, its smaller rival Islamic Jihad consists entirely of clandestine cells. The organization shares Hamas's opposition to the peace process and its preference for suicide bombings as a tactic, but its entirely underground operation leaves it shaded by the larger Hamas...
...famous "arrogance of power" is cross-grained, and self-subverted. The world might learn to be more alert to another kind, the arrogance of powerlessness--which may take the form of aggressive exaltation suffused with God's righteous, annihilating power. What is more arrogant than a vocabulary of "infidel," "jihad" and "fatwa"? More arrogant than the totalitarian conceit that Allah obliges "the faithful" to wage vicious holy war against the airplanes and office buildings of the ungodly? What is more arrogant, or in worse taste, than hijack heroes' sleazy dreams of paradise, with 72 virgins at the disposal of each...
Osama bin Laden's jihad was proclaimed in the name of a past that never existed in order to attain a future that can never be. Islam's golden age was one of tolerance, which the terrorism of today can never reclaim. GORDON S. FOWKES Sugar Land, Texas...
...fusion cell at General Tommy Franks' U.S. Central Command headquarters in Tampa, Florida, look up at wall charts for any changes on the lists. These are what the war in Afghanistan is all about: the scorecard of America's most wanted, the bad guys responsible for the global terror jihad, the men whom the Bush Administration has vowed to bring to justice?dead or alive. One list runs down roughly 40 senior Taliban leaders, coded by color as someone defects or is killed or negotiates to surrender. The other names the 20 or so top al-Qaeda terrorists Washington wants...
...Mohammed Atef, the al-Qaeda military-operations chief suspected of planning the Sept. 11 attacks, who was killed in a mid-November air strike. Two other high-ranking al-Qaeda lieutenants, Egyptians Fahmi Nasr (also known as Mohammed Salah) and Tariq Anwar, senior leaders of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, have also been marked KIA. The top commander of an al-Qaeda ally, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, has reportedly been eliminated as well. But in some ways, Pentagon officials are even more eager to interrogate those taken alive. Defense Department officers have heard that Taliban intelligence chief Qari Ahmadullah is either...