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...attacking the U.S. and Israel. He was unsure whether the abrasive, ambitious al-Zarqawi would make a reliable lieutenant. But al-Zarqawi would not be dissuaded. According to an account of the meeting by Saif al-Adel, a former member of bin Laden's inner circle, that appeared on jihadist websites, al-Zarqawi "doesn't retreat on anything ... He doesn't compromise...
...began an odyssey that would transform al-Zarqawi from a brawling thug to the leader of the jihadist insurgency in Iraq, a man deemed so threatening to U.S. security that he commands the same $25 million bounty offered for bin Laden. By turning Iraq into a breeding ground for al-Qaeda foot soldiers, al-Zarqawi has given new shape to an organization that was fractured when the U.S., in retaliation for the 9/11 attacks, ousted the Taliban and sent bin Laden into hiding. And as al-Zarqawi's stature has risen, his relationship with bin Laden has apparently grown more...
...intelligent, told in part from the view of a suicide bomber. Hany Abu-Assad's gnarly, poignant Paradise Now is set on the West Bank; Joseph Castelo's knockout nail biter The War Within takes place in New York City. But both have the monomania of an Islamic jihadist and the momentum of a Hitchcock movie about a bomb on a bus. Their simple narratives are the fuse that inexorably leads to the big blast. Syriana also ends with an explosion, but its journey there is through a labyrinth...
...Today's young European Muslims are angry, but no more so than young Tibetans, South Africans or East Timorese. Still, those young people have not resorted to acts of jihadist terrorism. Furthermore, Islamic extremism is not only a European issue. It also exists in Malaysia, Nigeria, Sudan, Kenya and Indonesia?countries that have had nothing to do with the war in Iraq, which TIME says is the galvanizing issue of Muslim radicalization in Europe. Andrew Onoro Birmingham, England...
...Pakistani student studying in the U.S., I would like to point out that the vast majority of Muslim youth in the West are working against ideas of jihadist violence and hatred. People in the West need to know that Muslims are not all fanatics and that there are those among us who seek to build a bridge between two different ideologies. Arsalan Usmani San Francisco...