Word: jihadism
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...course if Atta had already been drawn into the orbit of the radical networks of Bin Laden or the allied Al Jihad, there may have been other reasons for the signs of stress he exhibited on his final visit to Cairo. But his father concurs that Atta was homesick. "He expressed to his mother that he wanted to return home," El Emir recalls of his son's last visit to Cairo. "He was homesick and said that he had had enough of living abroad...
...Intelligence sources have also told TIME that other evidence suggests that Atta and several others in the group met with senior Al Qaida leaders, most notably Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Egyptian Islamic Jihad leader is believed to be Bin Laden's deputy, and the top operational commander of Al Qaida's networks...
...panelists also tried to dispel the conception of Muslims as angry proponets of holy war, or “jihad...
...toughest test yet of his domestic political standing - opinion polls find upward of 80 percent of Palestinians in favor of continuing the intifada, and the once unthinkable, that is, open defiance of Arafat's edicts, is now commonplace not only among the radical Islamists of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, but even among the grassroots structures of the Palestinian leader's own Fatah organization. The militants, who have no interest in seeing Arafat return to the negotiating table, have a powerful "veto" in the form of ongoing attacks that draw Israel's tank and missile fire and maintain the cycle...
...sides are struggling to hold on to a cease-fire. And that creates a crisis for a Bush administration that, more than anything else right now, needs to be seen to be doing something about the peace process. Unfortunately, for their own reasons, the radicals of Hamas and Islamic Jihad are feeling the same pressure...