Word: jihadism
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...terrible day for Syria's President. Thousands of people were in the streets of Lebanon demanding that his troops withdraw from the country they have occupied since the mid-'70s. A few hours after our meeting, the pro-Syrian Lebanese government resigned. Damascus-based leaders of Palestinian Islamic Jihad had taken credit for a Tel Aviv nightclub bombing that had killed five...
TIME: Now that you've been elected, your progress depends on your cease-fire with Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the Islamist groups opposing peace. How secure...
...Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's assertion Syria shared blame for last week's bombings in Tel Aviv because, as she told NBC news, "Palestinian Islamic Jihad, operating in Syria, had advance knowledge of the attacks...
...most recent edition of the State Department's annual "Global Patterns of Terrorism" report, which notes that "Iran provided Lebanese Hizballah and Palestinian rejectionist groups - notably HAMAS, the Palestine Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine?General Command - with funding, safehaven, training, and weapons" and adds "The Syrian Government in 2003 continued to provide political and material support to Palestinian rejectionist groups [operating] from Syria, although they have lowered their public profiles since May, when Damascus announced that the groups had voluntarily closed their offices...
...indictment as his co-conspirators, they allegedly taught him how to use weapons and discussed setting up an al-Qaeda cell in the U.S. A week after Abu Ali's arrest, the FBI searched his parents' home in Virginia and found, among other things, Arabic audiotapes "promoting violent jihad"; a book by Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, condemning democracy as a "new religion that must be destroyed"; and an issue of Handguns magazine. "That was pretty damning stuff," says Victoria Toensing, a former terrorism prosecutor now in private practice. But, she adds, "a professor of terrorism could...