Word: jihadism
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...steeped in battle tactics and religious fanaticism. War orphans are especially prized by the Taliban because they have no home to which they can escape. By the time they reach adulthood, the mullahs and commanders of the Taliban have become their family. The Taliban insists the extreme measures of jihad require extreme schooling. "Children are innocent, so they are the best tools against dark forces," says a Pakistani Taliban fighter, who was captured by the Northern Alliance last month near Dast-e-Qale...
...West Bank and Gaza. That conundrum inevitably creates ambiguity in their response to U.S. demands: Lebanon last week refused Washington's entreaties to freeze Hezbollah's assets. Indeed, the U.S. would be hard-pressed to find Arab governments willing to use the word "terrorist" for Hamas or Islamic Jihad, because many Arab leaders see these groups as responding to what they consider Israel's illegitimate occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. So while they would agree with President Bush's preference for "lawful change," many Arab statesmen also maintain that terrorism is the inevitable consequence of the absence...
...trip repeating his call for a bombing pause during Ramadan - even though he knows it won't happen. His concerns clearly resonate in the Muslim world. An editorial in Indonesia's Jakarta Post warns that "increasingly, people from predominantly Muslim countries are heeding the Taliban's call for a jihad, even if they deplore the radical brand of Islam that the Taliban have imposed on Afghanistan." The paper warns that "Washington cannot take international public opinion, which is still overwhelmingly behind the U.S.-led war against terror, for granted if the bombing in Afghanistan continues. Countries may still support...
...awaits trial with his "brothers" in France, accused of planning an attack on the marketplace in front of Strasbourg?s cathedral. German police have seized a video shot from a moving car, laying out the approach and escape route and lingering on the cathedral. The soundtrack is jihad battle songs from the car?s cassette deck and occasional curses from the occupants about "Christian dogs...
...still early. We have to give it time. You have to isolate them from their network." Others remain less optimistic. "Unfortunately, I?ve never seen a turncoat among Islamist militants," says an experienced European interrogator. "A change of heart could be transitory. People we?ve considered ?defectors? from the jihad have been re-recruited - some actually felt guilty about having given up the fight. A lot of Islamists who seem to be confessing may actually be thinking, ?I?ll tell them what they want to hear, but I?ll never change.?" And even as the detainees deny involvement in eventual...