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...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...
...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...
...Crocker, U.S. ambassador to Islamabad, has noted his "concern" over the renewed strength of the jihadi groups, which may now find it easier to attract recruits and to wield political influence among ordinary Kashmiris. Still, the militants worry about another crackdown by Musharraf. As Lashkar-e-Toiba spokesman Yahya Mujahid told TIME, "We fear the government will toe the American line and curb our humanitarian work." And if that happens, says Mujahid, "The Kashmiris will die of hunger...
...July from al-Zawahiri to al-Zarqawi--in which bin Laden's deputy urged the Jordanian to refrain from attacking Shi'ites in Iraq. It has provoked the anger of moderate Muslims around the world. Al-Zawahiri suggests such attacks "be put off until the force of the mujahid movement in Iraq gets stronger...
...Georgia on the Black Sea, where he fought with a Moscow-backed secessionist movement. But when open war between Russia and Chechnya flared in 1994, Basayev quickly emerged as one of the breakaway republic's top rebel commanders. From early 1995, he worked closely with Khattab, a Saudi-born mujahid who had fought in Afghanistan and claimed a close relationship with Osama bin Laden. "Basayev was in charge, but Khattab brought in the money," says a former senior security officer in the guerrilla organization. Basayev and his men were "seriously good," says one Russian special-forces officer who fought against...