Word: jihadism
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...Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad denied any responsibility in the attack. But Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, described Dawyyat's killing spree as "a natural reaction to Israeli crimes against Palestinians...
...During the interrogation a tearful Istie said that wives are obliged to support their husbands even if the men are involved in armed jihad; her children's future, too, "may be sacrificed for this means." According to the transcript, she told police that Dulmatin and Patek linked up with local separatist groups to evade capture...
...crescendo of violence in the hours before the truce took effect, militants fired more than 29 rockets and Israel responded with three air and artillery strikes. Says one Islamic Jihad rocket-man named Mohamed, limping from a piece of Israeli shrapnel in his foot: "We had a busy day. Our commanders told us to fire off as many rockets as we could." Mohammed was injured shortly before midnight by an Israeli artillery shell two minutes after he fired his ninth rocket under a glaring full moon...
...government institutions in exchange for the army pulling forces out of the tribal areas. But just a few weeks after news of the negotiations broke, Baitullah Mehsud, head of an umbrella group of insurgents called Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, declared at a press conference that he would continue his jihad against foreign forces fighting in Afghanistan...
...realizing the demands, restoring the rights or doing justice to the oppressed. These conferences are only ways of setting the infidels in the land of the Moslems as arbitrators.” Later, the covenant states: “there is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors...