Word: martyrdoms
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Recent visitors to the al-Qaeda-affiliated website www.alneda.com were in for a surprise. A link that once guided the terror group's supporters to "martyrdom: your path to immortality" now led to "Lola: I do things your wife won't." Mystery hackers had sabotaged the site, which U.S. and foreign counterterrorism experts say is maintained by al-Qaeda backers with access to propaganda produced by the group's top leaders. The hackers linked al-Neda (the Call) to pornography sites and later installed a fake site in its place. Al-Neda typically addresses the merits of jihad and offers...
Regular visitors to the al-Qaeda mouthpiece Web site "al-Neda" ("The Call") expect to find links to screeds on topics such as "Martyrdom: Your Path to Immortality." Recently, however, they may have found themselves directed, instead, to the pornographic pages of "Lola: I Do Things Your Wife Won't." Mystery hackers appear to have used a variety of means over the past month to sabotage al-Qaeda's presence on the Internet, including the installation of decoy pages, and the hogging of similar domain names in an effort to hobble efforts by supporters of the terror network to reestablish...
...Even more important, perhaps, is the site's propaganda function. In addition to religious tutelage on the merits of al-Qaeda's view of "jihad" and "martyrdom," the site provides news of the well-being of key al-Qaeda leaders, and occasionally even carries their audio-taped statements. Bin Laden spokesman Suleiman Abu Ghaith used al-Qaeda-friendly Web sites last month to prove that he remains alive and at large, and to raise the morale of its operatives. His audio-taped statement, whose authenticity was confirmed in Washington, insisted that Osama bin Laden has survived the U.S. campaign...
...going well for Hamas military commander Salah Shehade. His movement's spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, had begun publicly discussing a halt to attacks on Israelis in exchange for an Israeli withdrawal from West Bank towns, an end to assassinations and the release of prisoners. The idea of halting "martyrdom" operations was anathema to Shehade and other hard-liners in Gaza and the West Bank, and they were faced with making the case that their aims could only be achieved through violence. But any emerging debate on the question has been stifled by Tuesday's air strike that killed Shehade...
...mumbler; he spat his lines with acid precision. He often played tyrants--Napoleon, Al Capone, Mussolini (twice)--but his presence was grander: he suggested the Old Testament God, annoyed at the world's slow wit. Even as The Pawnbroker's death-camp survivor, he went for earned rage, not martyrdom. Steiger won a Best Actor Oscar for In the Heat of the Night, which showed a warming trend. But his legacy is one of fire within ice. In any scene he entered, he lowered the temperature and raised the stakes. --By Richard Corliss