Word: jihadization
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...most West Bank Palestinians are still living under siege - the Israeli army remains encamped around most Palestinian towns, tightly controlling access and launching new incursions in response to security threats. There are also signs of mounting internecine rivalries on the streets, not only in the form of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the more militant elements of Fatah challenging any movement toward a cease-fire, but also turf battles among security services loyal to rival strongmen...
...quite pleased with the cooperation we've got from them," says a U.S. official. A Western diplomat in Islamabad concurs, "There's grudging compliance. The ISI is saluting Musharraf and obeying him." This required a 180 turn for Pakistani spooks. Former friends such as the Taliban and homegrown jihad outfits became the new enemies. "Overnight, our strategic assets," as one top Islamabad official puts it, "had become liabilities...
...half of fighting, Israel has sustained the proportional equivalent of seven World Trade Center attacks. The problem has not been that Arafat has not done enough to stop the terrorism but that he himself has been the source of the terror. He continually incites Palestinians and has called for jihad and a million martyrs—suicide bombers—to march on Jerusalem. Asking Arafat and the Palestinian Authority (PA) to control the numerous terrorist factions is equivalent to asking Osama bin Laden to control the al Qaeda terrorists. In Arafat’s Ramallah compound, Israeli forces have...
...takeover in 1996. The victorious Mujahideen had successfully repelled the Soviet occupation, but left to themselves, the various factions could not come together to form a government. What followed was a bloody descent into anarchy. Kabul—virtually the only part of Afghanistan left intact by the bitter jihad against the Soviets—was subsequently shelled to the ground by the “liberators.” Life in the capital city was made so miserable that the people actually welcomed a one-eyed mullah named Mohammed Omar when he rode into town with his band...
...Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the nationalist group that forms the backbone of the Palestine Liberation Organization, entered the suicide-bombing business. Since then, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a Fatah offshoot, has taken part in at least 10 such attacks, some of them in collaboration with Hamas or Islamic Jihad. The Brigades activists are generally not religious fanatics. "Within Palestinian society, in the past year, a very broad mechanism of social approval has been created that makes it possible for even less religious people to commit suicide," says Ehud Sprinzak, a political scientist at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel...