Word: wahabis
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...Despite the fact that popular perceptions of the conflict were at variance with the government's policy of limited and quiet assistance to the U.S forces, the agreement between the monarchy and the puritanical Wahabi religious establishment appears to have held fast...
...World Trade Center bombing in New York City. Both Yousef and Abu Sayyaf founder Janjalani may have received training in the early 1990s at a commando camp near Khost, in Afghanistan. It was run by a professor of Islam Abdur Rab Rasul Sayyaf, whose belief in the strict Wahabi interpretation of Islam found him favor with many wealthy Saudis, including Osama bin Laden, No. 1 on America's list of most dangerous terrorists...