Word: jihadism
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...government buildings in the capital of Islamabad. Heavily armed riot police ringed the city of Quetta near the Afghan border, where angry protests all last week left five people dead. Soldiers huddled behind sandbags and armored-personnel carriers patrolled the streets in restive Peshawar while young men shouted for jihad. Militants roamed through the port city of Karachi, burning, looting and clashing with police as they chanted, "Osama, nuclear power of the Muslim world!" As Muslim sympathizers of Osama bin Laden and the Taliban whipped up fury in the streets, Musharraf's show of force kept the protests under relative...
...members of terrorist groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad voiced their concerns in a democratic government forum and engaged in debate with their opponents, they would no longer be terrorists. On that day, Israel would finally have a partner with whom to work out a lasting peace treaty...
...Khrum, earlier, the Taliban had stage-managed three small but noisy demonstrations by school children. Led by their teachers and some village elders, the boys shouted anti-U.S. and pro-Taliban slogans and vowed to wage jihad for the glory of Islam and defense of Afghanistan. Pakistan's military leader, General Pervez Musharraf, was also a target of their ire for helping the U.S. attack Afghanistan. In fact, some of the villagers in Khrum and in roadside bazaars along the way made no secret at their displeasure over the presence of Pakistani journalists in our group. Earlier, aggrieved Khrum...
...that the PFLP will mind. The left-wing faction had traditionally opposed the Oslo peace process, and like many of Arafat's own rank and file they reject his current cease-fire and renewed negotiations with Israel. Unlike Islamic Jihad and Hamas who may be inclined right now to act in sympathy with Osama bin Laden and the Taliban, the PFLP is a secular leftist group traditionally aligned with Syria. The killing of their leader, Abu Ali Mustafa, by an Israeli missile fired into his office in August had sparked widespread Palestinian fury and vows of vengeance. And by provoking...
...Sept. 11 attacks - and pressure from other European states - the British government has started to crack down. Last week, Sulayman Balal Zainulabidin, a 43-year-old cook, was arrested over connections with Sakina Security Services, an organization whose website - before it too suddenly disappeared - offered Muslim youths the "ultimate Jihad experience." This military course included training on how to "improvise explosive devices" in live operations and sessions at a U.S. firing range...