Word: mujahedeen
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...nonfiction book by George Crile, a former producer for 60 Minutes, the film follows the quixotic quest of a hard-drinking, oft-screwing Texas Congressman (Hanks) to get funding for antiaircraft weapons so that Afghani rebels can defeat their Soviet invaders. This was back in the 1980s, before the mujahedeen had flowered into the Taliban and backed Osama bin Laden's war against the U.S. (A postscript to the movie quotes Wilson as saying, "We f---ed up the endgame...
...business in Congress is to funnel money, jobs and programs to his constituents, not to some ragtag guerrillas in a country no one cares about. But when he hears that the mujahedeen have a chance to evict the Russkies if only they're properly armed, he gets religion. He's a man with a mission: get the money to get the arms to Afghanistan...
...help of Monitor senior writer Peter Grier, who offers a contextual narrative of what was happening in Boston, Washington and Baghdad while she was shuffled from safe house to safe house, Carroll recounts the hardship and, often, the irony of her captivity: "How do you channel-surf with the mujahedeen?" she writes at one point. Dave Cook, the Monitor?s D.C. bureau chief who has acted as Carroll's spokesperson, says that Carroll has a phenomenal memory. "The story is granular in terms of detail: descriptions of the house," he says. "Descriptions of the people...
...Mujahedeen Shura Council, an umbrella group that includes Al-Qaeda in Iraq, posted an internet message Tuesday claiming that the group's new leader, Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, had personally killed the Americans. Although the group has offered no definitive proof so far that it was responsible for the kidnapping and murder of Tucker and Menchaca, its statement promised that it would soon release a videotape to back its claim...
...Qaeda in Iraq because, though Zarqawi was the head of the organization, he was not in charge of the finances. That fundraising mechanism, therefore, continues to function. On Saturday, many Islamic resistance websites posted a condolence letter about the death of Zarqawi from the Shura Council of Mujahedeen in Iraq. The bottom of the letter was signed: Abu Abdullah Rasheed al Baghdadi...