Word: jihadization
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...affinities created in Afghanistan were clearly visible in the case of Ramzi Yousef, who bombed the World Trade Center in 1993. Yousef, a Pakistani jihad vet, spent time after that war in the Philippines with local insurgents who had fought in Afghanistan and were now putting their skills to work fighting for an Islamic state in the southern islands of the Philippines. Yousef had even planned attacks on U.S. airliners there, and the Filipino jihad vets who formed the Abu Sayyaf guerrilla group never forgot their old comrade - one of their prime demands when they kidnapped a group of Western...
...Afghan jihad may have started the process of internationalizing radical Islamic politics, but Osama Bin Laden has consciously and carefully worked to extend it. His training camps in post-Soviet Afghanistan became a kind of international university of terrorism, offering courses in murder and mayhem to which radical Islamic movements all over the world were invited. And he also provided financial support to some of these regional insurgencies in order to cement ties and win their loyalty. Besides enabling their local struggles, his objective was also to align them with his global jihad against America, thereby greatly extending his operational...
...secessionist and inter-communal violence. That has created an atmosphere fertile for the Islamists to exploit skepticism over U.S. intentions in the war on terrorism. Although they represent no more than 12 percent of the Muslim population, Indonesia's radical Islamists are actively recruiting young men for training for jihad. President Megawati Sukarnoputri has plenty of political enemies among the mainstream Muslim parties that tried to keep her out of power, which leaves her having to tread warily while the campaign in Afghanistan continues...
...Malaysia, local self-styled "mujahedeen" groups remain small but nonetheless worrisome, particularly because of their suspected links with the country's largest opposition party. While the government of Mahathir Mohammed supports the U.S. anti-terror effort - though not the bombing in Afghanistan - the opposition responded by calling for jihad against the U.S. Mahathir is not in any immediate danger, but as a long-time denouncer of the U.S. himself, he can't be seen to be too supportive...
...links between Al Qaida and many of these locally-based Islamic radical groups may well be tenuous. But Bin Laden has clearly divided the world up into a number of operational theaters for purposes of jihad - Afghanistan and central Asia; Europe and the United States; the Middle East and East Africa; the Balkans (where he first established a presence by sending volunteers to fight the Serbs in Bosnia) and Southeast Asia. In order to counter and defeat him, the U.S. may well have to mirror his actions...