Word: militiaization
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...written before Sept. 11, the interest of U.S. publishers disappeared soon after that day. "They got cold feet," says Blackman. Nonetheless, in Knife Edge, the author plunges deeper still into the mindset of a terrorist. Callum's brother, Jude, a die-hard cell leader with the noughts' Liberation Militia, finds himself falling for a woman, a cross he has befriended in order to rob. Because he understands hatred better than his heart and his mind, hatred wins - sickeningly: "She smiled at me. Total trust, love and devotion. It was too much. I was dying in it. I clenched my fists...
Afghan Harvest In the war against terrorism in Afghanistan, battles are raging on multiple fronts. Insurgents killed two Afghans at a government military post near the former Taliban stronghold of Khost in the south-east late last week, hours after local militia showered 20 rockets on the city's airport, triggering fire from U.S. forces based nearby. Away from the front lines, efforts to halt Afghanistan's opium trade are failing. After taking office in 2001, Afghan President Hamid Karzai outlawed...
...crowds. Arafat puckered his lips and blew kisses, no doubt expecting the kind of drawn-out session of mass adulation he relishes. But the prisoners knew whom to thank for their freedom. "Long live Hizballah!" they chanted. "Long live Hassan Nasrallah!" The name of the Lebanese Muslim fundamentalist militia leader wiped the smile off Arafat's lips: he immediately turned around and rushed into his office. For Arafat, last week's swap of Palestinian and other Arab prisoners for a kidnapped Israeli businessman and the bodies of three Israeli soldiers represents a real problem. The three-year intifadeh has left...
...goes by the nom de guerre Abu Ali, says the Salafists model themselves on the mujahedin who drove the Soviets out of Afghanistan in the 1980s and on other international jihad movements. He says the Salafists have forged links with their former nemeses in the Fedayeen Saddam militia on the condition that they renounce their allegiance to the former dictator. An Iraqi close to the guerrillas says Salafists have become decision makers in cells as the strength of the Baathists has waned...
...position. The U.S. team was met on the tarmac by an Iranian deputy minister. Its equipment was not examined, nor were its members fingerprinted, as American visitors normally would be. In Bam a Revolutionary Guard exclaimed, "Are they Americans? I love them!" A member of the hard-line Baseej militia snapped, "I don't care if they come to help. I hate them." (Despite such animosity, the Americans ended up treating a Baseej member a few days later.) Several Iranian men appeared to be surveilling the U.S. compound with video cameras. Four others arrived with a Christmas tree...