Word: jihadists
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...following the idea. But it may also be a sign that the events of the past five years have changed the dynamics of the Muslim world in ways that have marginalized it, so much so that Bin Laden now faces more compelling contenders for the mantle of champion of jihadist rage...
...Hijackings are normally quickly discovered by the Society for Internet Research, an informal consortium of self-described "freelance counterterrorists" who sit in home offices and dens tracking jihadist activity on the Internet. In turn, they alert the media or simply call the hijacked company. Alerted to the south Texas hijack, the cable company's communications provider reported the incident to U.S. authorities and the IP address was shut down...
...Lebanon in the past three weeks--it is that conventional military tactics don't work in an asymmetrical conflict. Sheer numbers and firepower count for very little. Despite an ongoing 50,000-man, joint U.S.-Iraqi military operation dubbed Operation Forward Together to flush Baghdad clean of nationalist insurgents, jihadist terrorists and sectarian militias, the capital is as dangerous as ever. If anything, the Shi'ite militias are getting more brazen; a few days after my return, they entered the largely Sunni neighborhood of al-Jihad and slaughtered at least 50 people, including several women and children. Eight days later...
...establish his reputation. Anyone who succeeds him as the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq will not gain so much notoriety. Al-Zarqawi met no interference from Saddam Hussein before the invasion of Iraq, and afterward he had support from antidemocratic forces. His reputation as a hard-line Jordanian jihadist worked in his favor. There will never be another al-Zarqawi. Adnan al-Jamie Baghdad...
...July 7 London attacks were the first suicide bombings in Europe. A year later, what lessons have been learned from this atrocity? Such attacks by jihadist groups inspired by al-Qaeda ideology pose a particularly difficult challenge to those assigned to protect the public in an open society - and especially when the terrorists are "homegrown." Three of the four suicide bombers who carried out the London attacks were second-generation British citizens (the fourth, Germaine Lindsay, was a Jamaican-born British resident); the young men blended easily into the Muslim community, and their families and neighbors seem not to have...