Word: mujahid
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...Tuesday Taliban spokesman Zaibiullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the bombing, telling the Associated Press by phone that the insurgent group would increase attacks against venues frequented by Westerners. "We will target all these restaurants in Kabul where foreigners are eating," he said. "We have jihadists in Kabul right now and soon we will carry out more attacks." The Taliban's new targets don't show up on international assistance budgets or diplomatic mission logs, but they are the infrastructure that sustains the Afghan support effort. Those who congregate at the Serena don't live in fortified compounds walled off from...
...ensure that votes go their way. Weapons flooded the region before the 2003 poll, which in many parts of the Delta was less an election than an armed contest. Commonwealth observers found that in the Rivers state and other areas there was "serious violence, intimidation and vote rigging." Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, one of the youth leaders armed by politicians, later turned on Nigeria's security forces and engaged them in gun battles in the streets of Port Harcourt. After Dokubo-Asari called for the breakup of Nigeria last year he was arrested for treason - a charge he denies. Some...
...Zarqawi is on the road, his car is said to be rigged to blow up at the throw of a switch. "He will never be taken alive," says Loretta Napoleoni, author of Insurgent Iraq: Al-Zarqawi and the New Generation. "He may be getting more religious, but the mujahid in him wants to go down fighting...
...Prophet in order to legitimize their other actions," says al-Fadl. Those who have observed al-Zarqawi at close quarters suggest that this is the logical next step in his evolution as a jihadi. Once a street thug in his hometown of Zarqa, he turned himself into a mujahid, or holy warrior, in Afghanistan, and then an emir, or military chieftain, in Iraq. "At some point, every emir wants to become a sheik," or religious leader, says the commander of an Iraqi insurgent group. "Since he was always quite religious, it is natural for him to grow in that direction...
...stood by their publication. “I addressed something that mainstream media was afraid to address,” Gorton said. “But I firmly believe in covering sensitive material.” Chairman of The Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago Abdul Malik Mujahid, which represents 55 mosques and over 400,000 Muslims, called the cartoons offensive but said that the agreed with the editorial accompanying the cartoons. “That article was not wrong but actually criticizes the commissioning of the cartoons in the first place,” Mujahid said, though...