Word: mujahedeen
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...Qaeda operatives currently on its soil - in custody, Tehran claims - as a bargaining chip in its dealings with the U.S. It has reportedly offered to hand them over to the U.S. or its allies for interrogation, but only in exchange for some 400 members of the Iraq-based Mujahedeen Khalq, an Iraq-based Iranian opposition guerrilla movement branded "terrorist" by both Tehran and the U.S. But the hawkish element pushing for a policy of regime-change in Washington sees the group as a valuable proxy force to use against Tehran, and opposes handing them over. And the message from...
...that the enemy is largely invisible, and unless the civilian population is willing to blow the whistle, he's notoriously hard to find. (Just ask the Israelis. Or the Russians who served in Afghanistan. Or any Vietnam vet.) And as Milt Bearden, former CIA liaison to the Afghan mujahedeen (back in the days when Osama bin Laden was still in the "freedom fighter" column) wrote last week, there may be four or five family members ready to sign up with the insurgency to avenge each Iraqi fighter killed. Hence the high-explosive message sent to warn the locals off supporting...
...Gulf States and the eventual establishment of autocratic Islamic theocracies. Of all things, bin Laden despises the United States for the presence of its military forces in Saudi Arabia. His motives for the strategic attacks against the United States, therefore, were the same as when he fought with the Mujahedeen against the Soviets 15 years earlier—to drive the infidel from the homelands of Muslim peoples, no homeland being more important than...
...their adversaries - the reason, for example, that the region of western Pakistan that borders Afghanistan is dotted with religious schools imparting the crude religious teaching that spawned the Taliban is that these were built during the 1980s by the Saudi and Pakistani government to indoctrinate the next generation of mujahedeen to fight the Soviets. (Nobody had expected that Mikhail Gorbachev would suddenly bring the Red Army home...
...daughters. Others though it was just deserts for their neighbor's alliance with the U.S. A bearded old man said he didn't care why, though he firmly believed it was pro-Saddam guerrillas. "Look at what they've done, why did they do it here?" he lamented. "The mujahedeen could have done it somewhere else. The only dead are Iraqis...