Word: mujahideen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...presented Bashir with three dossiers of evidence linking Pakistan to the Mumbai attacks, including a list of 34 Pakistanis wanted for various terrorist attacks in India. The dossiers and Rao's language - she talked about "unhindered activities of organizations such as Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, etc., from Pakistani territory" - are clear signs that India is looking for concrete action from Pakistan on terrorism, and not just promises. (See pictures of a jihadist's journey...
...girls school that had been turned into a voting station, Assadullah, 52, casually checked incoming voters on polling day Thursday. The Tajik security guard himself was a partisan of Abdullah Abdullah. In a way, he was following orders. Assadullah had once fought under Mohammad Atta, an ex-mujahideen commander who now governs the province and who has thrown his support behind Abdullah. Meanwhile, Palwasha, 19, a beaming first-time voter, giggled as she declined a request to reveal whom she chose. She was nonetheless grateful for the relative safety of her experience. "I've waited for this...
...years Bangladeshi authorities denied any active jihadist movement within its borders. That stance changed in 2005 when a local jihadist group, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, took credit for an audacious attack in which bombs were detonated in about one hour in all but one of Bangladesh's 64 districts. The incident forced Bangladesh's leaders to acknowledge the country's internal terrorist threat. Indian intelligence and BSF officials say that Dhaka is not doing enough to stop Bangladeshi jihadist groups in the border areas from crossing into India. But the victory in Bangladesh's Dec. 29 general election of the secular...
...Furthermore, foreign occupiers wear out their welcome quickly in Afghanistan. Ask the Russians. Recall that the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979 seeking to protect a threatened client regime, but an armed resistance quickly rose up calling itself the mujahideen. One outsider who aided this resistance force was a wealthy Saudi named Osama bin Laden. Our CIA supported the mujahideen as well. Russian troop strength was eventually increased up to 108,000, and vigorous offensive actions were launched in the countryside, but control could never be established. The effort became a moral and political calamity. Over a decade 13,000 Soviet...
...operative, wrote in his 2005 book Open Secrets: India's Intelligence Unveiled that "an average IB officer does not even know the difference between various explosive devices and triggering mechanisms" and that "an average IB officer is not oriented with the techniques of war pursued by mujahideen and fedayeen fanatics." He asserts that political interference had led to a servile "police culture" in the IB, and even charges that sincere IB efforts to nab Pakistani agents had been thwarted by leading politicians...