Word: jihadism
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...opposite the Federal Security Service (fsb) headquarters, was on the front line. "We always believed this tragedy would pass us by." Instead, the persistent insurgency in the North Caucasus keeps spreading - and what began in late 1994 as a war of secession in Chechnya is mutating into an Islamist jihad as it spills across the region. Russian officials have regularly dismissed rebel threats to expand the war. Yet over the past two years fighting has progressed west from Chechnya to Ingushetia and North Ossetia, where last year hundreds died in the Beslan school siege. In the past 12 months, there...
...scholar and rector of the State Islamic University in Jakarta, argues that a combination of poverty, the speed of societal change since the fall of dictator Suharto in 1998, and the Western military presence in Iraq, has left many young Muslims alienated and receptive to the message of global jihad. "The recruiters are good at brainwashing disoriented people and finding their weaknesses," says Azyumardi. Naivet? is also a factor. "Many of the recruits are simple village boys, and people like Nurdin can win them over with incredible speed," says Jakarta-based terrorism expert Ken Conboy. He notes that captured accomplices...
...article said that these networks contribute to the efficient planning and organization of jihad cells...
...real and constant, but it has not grown significantly higher of late," remarks one French counterterrorism official. "There was a little bit of grandstanding in some of his comments." Still, there is reason for concern. An offshoot of Algeria's ultraviolent Armed Islamic Group, the GSPC had largely waged jihad at home against the Algiers regime, but now appears set on taking its terrorism abroad, officials say. Confidential French intelligence reports reviewed by Time confirm the GSPC has decided within the last six months to internationalize its fight by linking with al-Qaeda-associated groups, and sees France...
...soon after his withdrawal. But he promised many times that any trouble across the fence would meet with a stern response. It wasn't hard for Israel to carry out its "targeted killings" of senior militants over the weekend. After all, the military wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which have spent years under cover, haven taken to the streets of Gaza since the Israelis left, making inviting targets...