Word: jihadism
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...think that it was only a matter of days or weeks or at most months before the jihadists would strike again. It has been more than four years. Al-Qaeda knows its inability to repeat 9/11 is a blow to its prestige and pretensions of leading a global jihad. Anyone can put a bomb in a Bali discothèque. But in more than four years, al-Qaeda has not been able to do anything in America even on the scale of Madrid or London...
...That conversation came to mind recently as I watched a slew of new films-a veritable jihad film festival-dealing with terrorism: Syriana, Munich, the excellent Palestinian film Paradise Now and, for kicks, a dvd dash through the fourth season of the television series 24. I watched with new eyes, however, mindful that we are at war and that these sorts of entertainments can influence the public's sense of the struggle, especially serious films that purport to show the reality of the conflict, as Syriana and Munich...
...calling for "death to Israel!" He fell under scrutiny in 1995, when Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, a Palestinian economist who had helped direct the World and Islam Studies Enterprise, a Muslim think tank co-founded by al-Arian at U.S.F., turned up in Syria as head of Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Al-Arian maintained that he hadn't known of Shallah's involvement in the terrorist group and kept building an image of himself as an "enlightened Islamist" who led interfaith projects in Florida, gave women leadership positions at his Tampa mosque--and in the 2000 presidential campaign, stumped for George...
...intelligence showed that al-Arian was funneling thousands of dollars to Islamic Jihad figures and advising Shallah on issues such as how to make Iran a "strategic partner" and how to handle the wills of two suicide bombers. Still, it offered no real links between al-Arian and terrorist acts. Nonetheless, says a former FBI supervisor involved in the case, in late 2002 word came down from Ashcroft to build an al-Arian indictment. "We were in shock, but those were our marching orders," says the supervisor, who felt that the Justice Department was rushing to indict before...
...federal judge in the case, James Moody, seemed to agree. Last year he ruled that prosecutors were using too broad an interpretation of a 1996 law that makes it illegal to provide "material support" to designated terrorist groups; they would have to prove that al-Arian knowingly funded Islamic Jihad terrorist activities. Jurors told reporters after last week's verdict that the feds simply didn't get that done. But the government was also hamstrung by the fact that most of its evidence focused on al-Arian's activities before the U.S. branded Islamic Jihad a terrorist group...