Word: mujahadeen
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...moved to Egypt. While on a religious pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia in February 2000, he got cozy with al-Qaeda operatives, who recruited him to train for jihad in Afghanistan, the government claimed in court records. On July 24, 2000, he allegedly filled out a five-page "Mujahadeen Data Form," or membership application...
...December 2001, a CIA agent received the Mujahadeen Data Form from an Afghani, who claimed to have found it in a safe house. When Padilla traveled to Egypt in May 2002, U.S. officials were hot on his tracks. They followed him on a flight to Zurich, and then to Chicago. On May 8, as he left the plane at O'Hare International Airport, customs agents pulled him aside and passed him to the FBI for questioning. He was allegedly carrying $10,000 in cash, a cell phone and a book containing numbers of al-Qaeda contacts...
...Even when she has ruled for the government, Cooke has undermined its strategy. Prosecutors have understandably tried to keep the case focused on their primary evidence: the Mujahadeen Data Form and hundreds of wiretap recordings of men talking about spending $3,500 to buy "zucchini" and "playing football in Somalia." The prosecutors argue that all this is code for supplying Islamic terrorists in Somalia, Kosovo and elsewhere through a "North American support cell" allegedly headed by Adham Amin Hassoun - one of the defendants in the case - and joined by Padilla and the third defendant, Kifah Wael Jayyousi...
...question is: Who is killing them? As the deaths began to mount, the government at first blamed Muslim separatists. A group calling itself the Pattani Islam Mujahadeen grabbed attention by posting the bounty for cop killings. But the Mujahadeen have never made any political demands, and some doubt they even exist. Vairoj says they do, and claims he made contact with them in the jungle. A few, he says, have received combat training in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Dangerous as this group may be, however, almost no one believes there are enough Mujahadeen in Thailand to have wreaked all this mayhem...
...Third World poverty, globalization, U.S. neo-colonialism, and a host of other bogeymen beloved of the know-nothing Left. True, it finds footsoldiers among the poor and dispossessed of Pakistan and Palestine. But the angry young men who crowd the streets of Peshawar and line up to train as mujahadeen are pawns, not leaders, and their marching orders do not bubble up, unbidden, from the “general will” of the wretched of the earth...