Word: mujahedin
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...Islam is the work of small, loosely organized cells who emerge for little more than a single act of random vengeance. Sections of Pakistan are ungovernable safe havens for the remnants of 20,000 zealous volunteers from Muslim countries all over the world who went to join the Afghan mujahedin in their holy war against the Soviets. An estimated 1,000 fundamentalist fighters still gather in the country's lawless reaches to train and egg each other on. They frequently sally forth aboard international airliners, looking for new places to fight their messianic...
...major event in Afghanistan when a soldier was taken prisoner. kgb and gru agents tried to locate pows; then field commanders began negotiations to free them. At first they tried to deal from strength, bombing and firing missiles at villages. If the mujahedin still refused to turn over prisoners, efforts were made to buy our people back. They were ransomed with flour, kerosene, uniforms, sometimes money, even, though rarely, with weapons. In the Chechen war, the military command will not even talk about the fate of captured officers and soldiers. Distraught mothers have had to go to Chechnya to free...
TIME: How do you plan a bombing of this kind? How was the target chosen? SHKAKI: It was planned very well. The two mujahedin [the Gaza men who carried the bombs] knew each other very well. Before the attack happened, they went to the scene of the operation and studied it carefully. At the appointed time, they went from Gaza to Tel Aviv, and from Tel Aviv to the military bus station, which was well protected. Beside the military station there was a small coffee shop where soldiers go. The two men coordinated between them: the first was to enter...
...against -- in numbers and intensity -- in the fall campaign and afterward. Few of the hopefuls sweating on the Capitol steps last Tuesday resembled Bob Michel, the decent, gentle, gee-whillikers Congressman from Illinois who retires this year as House minority leader. Like Gingrich, the G.O.P. hopefuls see themselves as mujahedin and Clinton as the Great Satan. As a smiling Gingrich told Clinton during a recent White House meeting, "We will do everything we can to beat you." And the G.O.P. probably will get help from rebellious Democrats and the Clinton team's frequent fumbling and procrastination, as they...
Kassem Rajavi was a tempting target. Not only was he the brother of Massoud Rajavi, leader of the largest and best-armed Iranian opposition force, the % People's Mujahedin, but he was the group's spokesman before the Geneva-based U.N. Commission on Human Rights, where he was known for his vehement denunciations of the Tehran regime. "For years he tickled the tiger," says Swiss investigating judge Roland Chatelain. "In the end the tiger...