Word: jihadists
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...Sunday, Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told CNN that a compound established by the Jihadist group Ansar Al Islam and captured by American and Kurdish forces last week was probably the source of the ricin seized from Algerian extremists in London earlier this year. U.S. intelligence had earlier identified the Ansar group as being especially active in attempting to develop ricin and other chemical and biological agents for use as terror weapons...
...match the record 3,656-metric-ton harvest of 2000. That year Afghan growers, backed by the Taliban, cornered as much as 80% of the world heroin market. Afghan warlords are once again the dominant players in the world market, and some, U.S. officials say, are closely allied with Jihadist fanatics determined to undermine the weak Kabul government and mount new attacks on the U.S., Israel and the West. --By Elaine Shannon
...ratcheting up the scale of terror, the jihadist authors of 9/11 sought to embody a Muslim "vanguard" (as bin Laden himself said in his videotape declaration, broadcast Oct. 7) capable of mobilizing the Islamic masses once and for all. The murderous operation had a double goal: to claim American lives on American soil, and to trigger a U.S. retaliation against Taliban-ruled Afghanistan that would turn the country into a massive cemetery for U.S. troops and precipitate the fall of America. The terrorists had in mind the Afghan rout of the Soviet army, which helped provoke the implosion...
...that support for the jihadist violence targeting U.S. interests on the Arabian peninsula came to be redirected toward Israel. After the Oslo peace accords broke down and the second intifadeh led to spiraling violence beginning in September 2000, colossal frustration began to build in the occupied territories--and it only increased as Israel continued to demonstrate its overwhelming military advantage over the Palestinians. That encouraged the rise of movements that consider terrorism a legitimate means of resisting occupation. And indeed, suicide bombings evoke great sympathy throughout the Middle East, where their perpetrators are described as martyrs and where telethons have...
...keeps sputtering, fresh violence in the other troubled quarter of the Middle East, where Palestinian bombers claimed five Americans along with Israeli lives, and new questions about his strategy from Capitol Hill. The pause also came as the Administration's bitterly divided camps on Iraq-one pragmatic, the other jihadist-squared off in another round of the battle they have been waging for weeks via the front pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post...