Word: jihadism
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...same cell was a timid Pakistani named Mahsood Ali, 22. Three weeks ago, he came from Peshawar with three friends to fight the jihad against the Americans. Now his friends are dead, and Ali hugged his knees to his chest and rocked on the soles of his feet. "I think I made a mistake coming to Afghanistan," he said...
...will to fight crumbled. Those pockets of Taliban troops still battling last week were doing so on their own. "As a fighting unit, they are rapidly collapsing," says a U.S. intelligence official. Pakistani intelligence sources told TIME that the rank-and-file Taliban militiamen have lost their taste for jihad. Some have returned to their villages pleading for mercy; others tried to slip unnoticed across the Pakistani border. "It's very easy," says Khair Ullah, a resident of the border town of Bajaur. "You remove your black turban and trim your beard, and nobody says you are a Talib...
...Alliance commanders avoided the widespread barbarism they administered a decade ago. And while America certainly has not finished the fight against terror, the punishment doled out by the U.S. and its allies in Afghanistan has made it more difficult for future bin Ladens to lure followers to join the jihad by portraying America, as he did, as a soft superpower that can be easily intimidated. "The Taliban really thought this was going to be the 1980s and their fight against the Soviets," a senior U.S. intelligence official told TIME. "They didn't realize that what al-Qaeda did on Sept...
...willing to settle for all of this. Instead, just when the two sides were on the verge of a historic compromise, he opted for war. Coupled with the Palestinian leader’s past record (for example, his failure to crack down on the Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants in 1995 and 1996, which led to the replacement of the dovish Peres government with the hawkish Netanyahu one), the inevitable conclusion is that whenever Arafat smells peace , he feels the urge to loose his militants. If he had really been interested in peace, he would have continued to negotiate instead...
...know what set them off? Actually I think it was probably the British journalist. It's merely the sight of a Western face. They're here to fight a jihad; they see a Western face; they assume that's who they've come...