Word: jihadization
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...wean away some of the Taliban's core supporters - a point underscored by the fact that Mullah Omar and most of the movement's senior leadership have never been captured. Unlike the sophisticated Arab operatives of al-Qaeda for whom Afghanistan was simply another stopover in a globalized jihad, the one-eyed peasant mystic mullah is still believed to be at large somewhere on home turf. (The Pashtun heartland spans the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.) And the fact that he hasn't been found suggests a measure of support among the local population...
...Like Arafat, Abbas has started out trying to negotiate with Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the hope of persuading them that ending terror attacks is in the wider Palestinian national interest. Having a considerably weaker political base than Arafat, Abbas is likely to be acutely aware that the path of confrontation with those groups could spark a Palestinian civil war from which the Palestinian Authority emerges even weaker. Instead, he seeks to maintain Palestinian unity on the basis of a common understanding to pursue the "roadmap" - an approach that has Israeli security chiefs warning that Abbas has no intention...
...Damascus, he's not welcome there," says a U.S. official. Washington also hopes to strong-arm the Syrians into giving up some of their worst habits--such as sponsoring organizations like Hizballah, which the U.S. labels a terrorist group, and the violent Palestinian activists of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, as well as developing chemical weapons. Washington effectively put Assad on notice that, as Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz said, "there's got to be change in Syria...
Hart said the public debate sparked by the original title of last year’s English oration, “American Jihad,” is another example of the disrespectfulness he hopes to target in his address...
...compromise Yasin renamed his speech “Of Faith and Citizenship: My American Jihad,” moving the disputed word to the subtitle of his address...