Word: mujahedeen
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...British, for example, have made clear they'd have no part in such an enterprise. So, the hawkish option is to press for Iran's diplomatic isolation, destabilize the country through covert operations and directly back an armed uprising led by exile groups such as the Iraq-based Mujahedeen e-Khalq (which would have to be removed from the U.S. list of terrorist organizations to make that possible...
...Qaeda is more likely to bring the training to recruits who are already "embedded" in the operational theater. And rather than recruiting only those capable of participating in sophisticated terror plots thousands of miles away, it may also be tempted to broaden its scope to establish local "mujahedeen" to wage hit-and-run and suicide attacks on Americans in their midst...
...number and intensity of operations by the Taliban and its allies - although there may now be less direct involvement by al-Qaeda personnel, the new guerrilla war appears to involve a coordinated command structure combining Taliban fighters, loyalists of the fiercely anti-American warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and other former Mujahedeen commanders alienated from the U.S.-backed government in Kabul...
...Qasr battle, he proceeded to cite by name numerous Iraqi soldiers who proved their heroism in the defense of the city. He also saluted the residents of Basra, the largest city in southern Iraq, as well as Iraqis living in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul. "O heroic mujahedeen, hit your enemy hard!" Saddam said. "O noble Iraqis, with your strength and spirit of jihad, hit him so that he cannot commit more crimes against you, your nation and humanity. Then you will have victory, our martyrs will have the pride of paradise and you will have the pride...
...irony of a week of Evil Axis nuclear jockeying: The initial allegation of Iran's nuclear program came from the Mujahedeen Khalq, an armed opposition group that has fought the regime in Tehran for two decades. And the Mujahedeen Khalq, of course, has long been based in Iraq...