Word: jihadization
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...Lashkar-e-Taiba, is quiet, as are its sister facilities not far away. "People no longer sleep at the camps," says a Kashmiri militant in Aath Maqam, a village near the Line of Control. "There is a fear of attack by India." In the past couple of weeks, pro-jihad flags and posters that lined the streets have been hauled in or scrubbed away...
...between India and Pakistan is averted, the countries will still have plenty of challenges between them--and on their own. Musharraf will have to explain to his people his crackdown on terrorism, which he used to call by a more glorified name. Lots of those people lived for the jihad that is now under such attack. "When I was a child, my mother wanted me to get settled in London," says Abu Haroon, 28, returned to Pakistan after two years fighting in Kashmir. "But I opted for jihad after one of my friends died in India. I abandoned my education...
...threatening, but more scholarly and sophisticated, is Saeed, 54. The charismatic red-bearded Islamic-studies professor is Lashkar-e-Taiba's main ideologue. Born in 1947 during his family's flight from northern India during Partition, Saeed memorized the Koran as a boy. He fought briefly in the Afghan jihad against the U.S.S.R. and in 1986 founded the Markaz Ad-Da'wah Wal Irshad, a religious education and proselytizing organization. Lashkar spun off two years later, attracting veterans of the Afghan war. It has taken responsibility for many hit-and-run operations in Indian-held Kashmir but says it never...
...State Department to link Arafat's Authority to the arms, though the U.S. won't tie Arafat directly to the boat. Arafat's advisers say he expects the U.S. to use his embarrassment over the Karine A to make him crack down on Hamas and another violent group, Islamic Jihad, a long-standing demand by Israel and the U.S. "I don't envy him," says an Arafat aide. "He's very isolated...
...Even more worrying for the Palestinian leader, perhaps, was the decision by Hamas to abandon its avoidance of attacks inside Israel in order to maintain Palestinian national unity and prevent the collapse of the PA. Arafat's security forces have continued to arrest Hamas and Islamic Jihad activists over the past three weeks, provoking clashes with their supporters. Wednesday's attack was described by the Bush administration as a challenge to Arafat's authority, and the Islamists concurred. A Hamas spokesman defended the attack by posing a challenge to Arafat: "What have you to show for meeting the demands...