Word: jihadization
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...file, are using the potential campaign against Iraq to rally for a new round of violence. With the Pentagon planning to move as many as 250,000 troops into the region in advance of a possible invasion, some experts believe that al-Qaeda will call for a renewed jihad against the U.S. presence in and around the Arabian Peninsula-one of the original objects of bin Laden's wrath...
...training facility in Riyadh, killing four U.S. servicemen. In June 1996, attackers with alleged links to Iran detonated a massive truck bomb outside a U.S. Air Force housing complex in Khobar, eastern Saudi Arabia, killing 19 Americans. A few months later, the Saudi-born Bin Laden openly declared a jihad against the U.S., denouncing America's military presence in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf...
...SENTENCED. JOHN WALKER LINDH, 21, "American Taliban" taken prisoner by U.S. troops in Afghanistan last November; to 20 years in federal prison; in Alexandria, Virginia. Before the sentencing, a tearful Walker Lindh said that he had "made a mistake by joining the Taliban," and that that he "never understood jihad to mean anti-Americanism or terrorism...
...Amal (MMA). The MMA is volubly anti- American, as Sumbal, the five-year-old anti-Yankee rabble-rouser, demonstrates. More worrisome for Musharraf: it has also become a focus for popular discontent against him for his actions since Sept. 11, especially his crackdown on insurgents going to fight jihad in Kashmir, and what is perceived to be his pro-America pandering...
...plotting what may be considered lower-scale terror compared to Sept. 11, but which kills and maims nevertheless," the French official continues. "The big difference is that Bensaïd never trained in Afghanistan, and didn't have the support and far-reaching organization that al-Qaeda's international jihad provides today." The terror cells that are following Bensaïd's example do have that support, and Continental police continue to find evidence that the G.I.A. model remains in force. The December 2000 raid of a Frankfurt cell preparing an attack in Strasbourg, as well as September 2001 sweeps...