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...combination of secular nationalists (of the former Baathist regime) and militant Islamists, operating with a significant degree of support from the local population, willing to use a wide range of combat tactics and able to enlist a significant number of "shaheeds" (fighters willing to die in pursuit of martyrdom), although in Iraq some of these may be foreign jihadis. U.S. commanders don't have a clear picture of who is behind the insurgency. That fact alone is another potential reason for seeking Israeli help: Israel's massive intelligence-gathering operation in the West Bank and Gaza has allowed...
Their plans for "martyrdom" disrupted, Lillie and Amin found themselves instead working directly for Hambali in Southeast Asia. Hambali told interrogators the men had no other friends but him. Thai police say it was Amin and Lillie who led them to Hambali. Trailing Amin, they spotted him in the company of Lillie. Those two were arrested in June and August, respectively, and Lillie directed police to Hambali. Before the three were busted, they had worked, according to their confessions, as a liaison unit between al-Qaeda and extremist militants in Southeast Asia, principally those of Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.), a network...
...that teenage volunteers who want to enlist these days in the Taliban are taken first in small groups to Pakistan's lawless tribal lands, where they are given a scant few weeks of weapons training and are assigned to hit U.S. targets inside Afghanistan. Because they are so inexperienced, martyrdom is only a few weeks away; these youngsters are usually the first to be killed...
...According to a close friend and advisor to Hill who spoke to TIME shortly after the execution the manuscript is more than a call to action, or martyrdom, as his supporters term it. Hill details not only how to stalk an abortion doctor, but also advises potential martyrs on a number of other details, such as how to prepare themselves mentally and emotionally to kill a law enforcement officer who might be escorting the doctor. You have to kill the officer first, according to Hill...
...said. "They are more powerful than us, but we couldn't stand still to what Israel does to us without any reaction. We are sending the message that we are refusing to be occupied. Military victory is not possible, but the only alternative is surrender." When I asked how martyrdom advanced Hamas' aims, he replied with the kind of logic that makes the most optimistic despair of Middle East peace: "What of your soldiers in Iraq who are being killed day after day? Those are martyrs sacrificing their lives for 'American interests.' So why do you call Palestinians murderers...