Word: jihadists
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...year later, with Fallujah turning into a stronghold of the insurgency and gun battles breaking out on their street almost every day, the family moved again--this time to Ramadi, the capital of the restive Anbar province. Ramadi soon went the way of Fallujah, its streets controlled by jihadist gangs fighting pitched battles with U.S. Marines. One day an extremist cleric visited Waddah's home and urged the four brothers to join the holy war against the Americans. When the brothers refused, the cleric threatened to let loose his fighters on the family. The only way out was to move...
...Sunni. Any Shi'ite whose family was unable to pay ransom within a week was being killed, they said. To reassure them of his Sunni loyalties, Waddah claimed friendship with the fanatical cleric in Ramadi who had tried to force him and his brothers to become jihadist fighters. He also spoke disparagingly about Shi'ites. "I am not proud of what I said, but it saved me from more torture," he says. His captors seemed to take him for a kindred spirit, and the beating stopped...
...better prepared. We are safer." JOHN NEGROPONTE, U.S. Director of National Intelligence, responding to critics who cited a leaked National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) as proof that the Iraq war has worsened the terrorist threat. The NIE?portions of which were declassified last week?calls the war a jihadist "cause c?l?bre...
...moderate-sounding pronouncements. So, still no U.S. visa. "Is this Administration now going to say, 'We got bad information, he can come now'?" asks Ramadan. Whatever the reason for the rejection, one French counter-terrorism official suggests it indicates the U.S. is still confused about how to confront the jihadist threat. "The Americans gave visas to the plotters of Sept. 11, but today refuse to give one to Tariq Ramadan," the official says. "What's wrong with that picture...
JOHN NEGROPONTE, director of national intelligence, responding to critics who cited a leaked National Intelligence Estimate as proof that the Iraq war has worsened the terrorist threat and criticized the Bush Administration for not releasing it. The NIE--portions of which were declassified last week--calls the war a jihadist "cause...