Word: jihadization
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...militancy in Kashmir, which they consider a holy war. They come from all walks of life: not merely from the religious schools known as madrassahs, or the far-flung, poverty-mired towns and villages, but also from Pakistan's educated and Westernized middle and upper classes. In the jihad they find brotherhood, a sense of mission and purpose. And for these highly religious volunteers, many of whom are still in their teens, there is nothing more sacred in life than achieving the status of a martyr. These are the grunts in the war. The leaders are Pakistani veterans...
...told reporters that he "praises the struggle of Osama bin Laden ... in fighting the arrogance of the terrorist United States." His lawyers say he may have taught some of the suspects being held in Malaysia, but bristle at the suggestion that he instructed them in the ways of jihad. "If every teacher had to be responsible for his students," says Ahmad Mihdan, Abubakar's head attorney, "no one would ever become a teacher...
...very sure that he is not acting alone," says one military intelligence officer. In public, however, Indonesian police insist that the allegations against Abubakar in Singapore and Malaysia aren't substantive enough for detention or extradition. "We do not believe that he was recruiting or training anyone for a jihad operation," says national police spokesman Brigadier General Saleh Saaf. "So far we have no proof...
...people will not quite remember what a chad was. Further, it would be against the interests of blue America - self-destructive, in fact - for the Democratic leadership to overdo its righteousness and its demonization of the Bush administration. The columnist Michael Kelly has pointed out that a Democratic ideological jihad might have the same result as the Republicans' disastrous overinterpretation of their mandate...
...Horizon: This is jihad being waged by Afghan war vets against their erstwhile sponsors (the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Egypt), and Bin Laden's in it to win. Even if he is killed or captured, it's highly likely that the deadly campaign he initiated would continue...