Word: mujahedin
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...Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's two top leaders, remain unaccounted for, and U.S. intelligence sources suspect that both are still alive. So is Mullah Mohammed Omar, the leader of the Taliban. Sources tell Time that Omar may be forging an alliance with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a particularly dangerous former mujahedin leader--and briefly Prime Minister of Afghanistan--who slipped back into the country around February. "Hekmatyar should be seen as quite as much a worry as Omar," says a Western intelligence official in Kabul. "If the two are cooperating, then the danger of a growth in terrorist attacks and assassinations...
...come to recognize violence against tourists as a dead end and publicly renounced the practice. The group has not conducted an attack inside Egypt since 1998. Likewise in 1997, one of the Islamist factions waging a civil war in Algeria called for a truce after five years. And mujahedin in Bosnia lost all hope of transforming that nation's ethnic war into a jihad after the signing of the Dayton peace accord in 1995. They were forced to leave the country without seeing their radical fervor infect the local population...
...seized on the extremist Ansar al-Islam as the organizational nexus that ties al-Qaeda to Baghdad. The group has existed in various forms since the 1990s, when its leader, an Islamic cleric named Najmadin Fatah who goes by the nom de guerre Mullah Krekar, took inspiration from Afghan mujahedin to launch a rebellion against the two feuding secular factions that divvy up Iraqi Kurdistan. Krekar, who carries a Norwegian passport, is a veteran of the mujahedin known for his ruthlessness. "He is not normal," says a Kurdish intelligence official. "He enjoys killing people...
...many countries in the region an attack on Saddam is a lose-lose scenario, but Iran's stakes are more mixed. Tehran has an economic interest in maintaining the status quo, since the sanctions against Iraqi oil bring investment Iran's way. But Baghdad hosts the Iranian opposition group Mujahedin-e Khalq, which routinely stages raids across the border into Iran. And Iranian reformers would regard a more democratic regime in Iraq as a boost to their own hopes for political change - though the country's hard-line conservative clerics would oppose it for exactly the same reason...
...website linked to the Islamic Iran Participation Front, Iran's leading reformist party, Saddam's son Qusai Hussein recently met with a deputy commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. The Foreign Ministry denied a meeting took place, but the report states that Qusai offered to swap members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq wanted by Iran for some of that country's Shahob-3 missiles, which could hit Israel, and a guarantee of Iranian humanitarian aid in the event of an American attack. Tehran declined the swap, but agreed to aid that might stem the expected flow of Iraqi refugees...