Word: jihadists
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...second attack occurred at a bank in the same building four days later. In neither case was the toxic concentration high enough to cause permanent injury. But it was enough to put the government on the alert. European terrorism experts tell Time that the attacks do not suggest jihadist terrorists, who tend to maximize damage and casualties. However, if the attacks turn out to be acts of terrorism, they would be Europe's first using toxic chemicals, experts say. Police have yet to make any arrests. Forensic psychiatrist Svetozár Droba says the absence of claims of responsibility afterward...
...response has been to blame the offensive on "international terrorism," a phrase that invokes al-Qaeda and sidesteps any acknowledgement that Russia may, in part, be reaping the whirlwind of what Putin has sown in Chechnya during his almost five years at the helm. Even in its most explicitly jihadist form, Chechen terrorism is a homegrown affair, although factions of the Chechen separatist movement have received financial and political support from Qaeda-aligned elements abroad - and a handful of Arab mujahedeen have long played a role in the Chechen insurgency. The Russian crackdown, which began late in 1999 as Putin...
...HUNT: Tracking jihadist suspects on U.S. soil...
...resistance has its divisions--at least in part because jihadist leaders allied to al-Qaeda--linked Jordanian terrorist Abu Mousab alZarqawi, a proponent of the unified command, seem to be trying to take control. Militant sources tell TIME that their rise has alienated some insurgents, especially the Baathists and nationalists, who resent the influence of foreigners. Whoever wins, the more disturbing development is that some Iraqi jihadis, hoping to take their fight beyond Iraq's borders, are threatening to launch a terrorist campaign in the U.S. "If America continues to shield its people from the truth," says an al-Zarqawi...
...name he claims to fight. The irony, of course, could be that those who do the killing might be as hostile to the American presence in Iraq as Zarqawi is. And while everyone from the new government to many former Baathists may share the objective of purging the foreign jihadist element, their differences over Iraq's future - and over the presence of American forces in their midst - remain substantial...