Word: jihadism
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...Leaderless Jihad, the latest book by the author of 2004's Understanding Terror Networks, forensic psychiatrist Marc Sageman attempts to unravel the psychological profile of Islamist terrorists. Like his earlier book, Leaderless Jihad discredits conventional wisdom about terrorists by eschewing anecdotes and conjecture in favor of hard data and statistics. And statistically, the enemy...
...wane, its leaders on the run or dead and increasingly isolated. It is the informal al-Qaeda - born after the attacks on September 11, 2001, and exploding into raging adolescence after the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 - that is the real threat, waging the "leaderless jihad" of the book's title chapter. Poverty and lack of opportunity are not necessarily the factors that drive young men to commit violence in its name. Middle-class and educated at a private school, Sheikh exemplifies another kind of motivation. "They view themselves as warriors willing to sacrifice themselves for the sake...
...Leaderless Jihad, the latest book by the author of 2004's Understanding Terror Networks, forensic psychiatrist Marc Sageman attempts to unravel the psychological profile of Islamist terrorists. Like his earlier book, Leaderless Jihad discredits conventional wisdom about terrorists by eschewing anecdotes and conjecture in favor of hard data and statistics. And statistically, the enemy...
...Sageman, is on the wane, its leaders dead or on the run and increasingly isolated. It is the informal al-Qaeda--born after the attacks on Sept. 11 and exploding into raging adolescence after the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003--that is the real threat, waging the "leaderless jihad" of the book's title chapter...
...better than before. I live in Baghdad. I know how it was a year ago after the bomb, after the counterattacks of the sects of the Iraqi community, after al Qaeda and al Saddamists against the Iraqi innocent people in the name of jihad or in the name of other reasons. After the implementation of the security plans, the situation gets much better and especially now in the last three months, in many areas people feel confident and secure enough to go out shopping in some...