Word: mujahedine
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...there were no suicide bombers and death squads roaming the streets. But once his trial began, even his most ardent followers conceded he would never return to power. The Sunni Baathist insurgents have long since stopped fighting for him. Many have recast themselves as the "nationalist resistance," or worse, mujahedin. Many others have abandoned Baathism for the more poisonous jihadist ideology of al-Qaeda...
...into the Sunni insurgency, seemed to lose their fervor for Saddam. Some Ba'athist groups kept up the charade that they were fighting to restore the dictator to his palace, but others quickly stopped referring to him at all and instead recast themselves as "the nationalist resistance" or as "mujahedin," or holy warriors. Many threw in their lot with the new ogre on the scene, Al-Qaeda's Abu Musab al-Zarqawi...
...President, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, warned that Israel will wind up like the Soviet Union in the scrap heap of history, a European Union Court ruled that a fiercely dedicated armed group that opposes his regime had been unfairly placed on the E.U.'s official list of terrorist organizations. The Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) is also on the U.S. State Department list of terrorist organizations, although much to Tehran's chagrin, the U.S. did not hand over the group's fighters when it took control of their main base in Iraq after the fall of Saddam...
Abdul Salaam Rocketi, a former frontline Mujahedin commander in Afghanistan, earned a surname that reflects his prowess with rocket-propelled grenades and spent eight months in detention after U.S.-led forces drove out the Taliban in 2001. Now, as a member of the Afghan parliament, he encourages his former Taliban comrades to reconcile with the government of President Hamid Karzai. But he can't visit his constituency in the southern district of Zabul because security is terrible and he's received too many assassination threats. Rocketi is grateful for foreign aid, but frustrated that donors regularly cough up so much...
...channel surf with the mujahedin?" JILL CARROLL, U.S. journalist and former hostage in Iraq, describing how strange it was during her 82-day abduction this year to watch Oprah and Tom and Jerry with her captors, four of whom were arrested last week...