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Conservatives criticized McDermott for his comments, dubbing him "Jihad Jim" and accusing him of sympathizing with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. ...
  • World Bank Funds Linked to Suicide Terror (April 2, 2004)
    ...cial student branches of Hamas (called Al-Kutlah Al-Islamiyah) and Islamic Jihad (called Al-Jama'ah Al-Islamiyah), both terrorist organizations found on th...
  • Palestinian Factions to Be United Under Arafat (August 30, 2002)
    ...alestinian conflict. Thirteen factions, including Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, have been meeting regularly in Gaza City to try to end their historic squ...
  • Israel to Coordinate With US on Moves (December 16, 2003)
    ...he delegation was to arrive Tuesday for separate talks with Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Yasser Arafat's Fatah. The team is led by Gen. Moustafa El-Bohairi and...
  • Al-Zarqawi Denies Jordanian Intelligence Story on Chemical Bomb (April 29, 2004)
    ..., located at http://www.al-ansar.biz, was observed to post in its Ansar al-Jihad (the supporters of Jihad) discussion room a 7-minute audio recording by Ab...
  • Blair in Rift With Bush Over Israel (June 26, 2002)
    ...to broker a Middle East peace deal, expressed similar worries that Islamic Jihad or Hamas could take over from the PLO leader. The British Government's...
  • Will of Ahmed al Haznawi (April 20, 2002)
    ...aim of this group is not regional or national but it is global. The aim is Jihad for the sake of Allah (swt). The Orator: They (the 19) opened the do...
  • The Kurdish Jihadis (July 14, 2002)
    ...ollowers of the Propher Mohammed in the Arabian town of Medina) declared a jihad against the avowedly secular KDP and PUK parties that between them run the...
  • Pakistani Roundup 'No Threat to al Qaeda' (April 2, 2002)
    ...s scattered all over the world. Their presence in the shape of the Islamic Jihad, Hamas and Hezbollah reflects the fact that although the "routes are diffe...
  • New Book by Al-Qa'ida's Al-Ayiri Views Region's Future After Fall of Baghdad (August 29, 2003)
    ...t is the result of a simple reading of the reality today. Having renounced jihad and settled for worldly affairs, the nation, unfortunately, has left its a...
  • New Rules for Israel and Syria (October 13, 2003)
    ...izations by the United States and Israel, among others — Hamas and Islamic Jihad — are orchestrating suicide bombings from here. Few analysts expect that t...
  • al-Zawahiri Calls For Overthrow of Pakistan Government (March 25, 2004)
    ...end, he has drawn up several wicked plans, chief among which is strangling jihad in Kashmir and gradually giving up demanding Kashmir's right to achieve in...
  • Al Qaeda Claims Attack On Tunisia Synagogue (April 16, 2002)
    ... reprisal for [Arab] governments' refusal to allow their peoples to launch jihad against the Jews," said the text carried by the newspaper. The daily al...
  • Israeli Troops Seize Millions in Raids on Palestinian Banks (February 25, 2004)
    ...ts believed to belong to the Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Security sources claim much of the money came from Hezbollah, Iran an...
  • Israeli Strike on Syria Sparks Emergency UN Talks (October 5, 2003)
    ...t claimed was used by several militant groups, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Syrian media have described Ein Saheb as a Palestinian refugee camp....
  • Iran Charges US Over Military Action (March 3, 2004)
    ...ated Press, was kidnapped by another Palestinian resistance group, Islamic Jihad, and held for more than six years....
  • Magnet for Evil (August 20, 2003)
    ...etween Saddam and Al Qaeda. They made it sound as if Islamic fighters on a jihad against America were slouching toward Baghdad to join forces with murderou...
  • No Kharabba at the End of the Tunnel (July 19, 2003)
    ... yes, there is a guerrilla war going on, which Saddam wants to turn into a jihad. Wolfowitz met with the American proconsul in Iraq, Paul Bremer, and L...
  • Terrorists Planned to Explode Bomb Tainted with HIV-Infected Blood (April 13, 2004)
    ...fficials. Meanwhile, Tanzim terrorists aided by both Hamas and Islamic Jihad planned to carry out a simultaneous triple suicide bombing in Israel. One...
  • Fight With Zeal and Enthusiasm Until The Last Soldier Leaves Our Country (October 25, 2004)
    ...cretary general of the Iraq Command of the Ba'th Party, head of the Higher Jihad Committee, and commander of the armed resistance in sisterly Iraq, has add...
  • Tribal Leader Warns of War Over US Raids (December 23, 2001)
    ...tacks in which women and children had also died, he said. "We will start a Jihad against Karzai if US jets repeated such attacks." Gen Tommy Franks, co...
  • Calls to Jihad Said to Lure Hundreds of Militants Into Iraq (November 1, 2003)
    ...militant Muslim scene who are willing to go other places to participate in jihad, including Iraq," the official said. There are scattered reports from o...
  • A Truce of Sorts (June 30, 2003)
    ... days later, gunmen from three of the main militant groups, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and al-Aqsa Brigades, joined forces to make clear their opposition to the...
  • Washington Cuts Ties with Arafat (July 1, 2002)
    ..., saying the "assassination will increase Hamas' determination to continue jihad and resistance". 'Flawed' In the interview with Fox News, Mr Po...
  • When Children Run From Shells (July 11, 2002)
    ...raeli undercover soldiers ambushed and killed Muammar Daraghma, an Islamic Jihad political activist in Jenin. Earlier, on 4 July, Israeli agents killed...
  • Palestinians Denounce Legislation on Recognition of Jerusalem (October 1, 2002)
    ...ry building. The Al-Quds Brigades, a wing of the militant group Islamic Jihad, sent a statement to reporters in Beirut claiming responsibility for the a...
  • Saudis in Iraq 'Preparing for a Holy War' (August 19, 2003)
    ...i Arabian Islamists are crossing the border into Iraq in preparation for a jihad, or holy war, against US and UK forces, security and Islamist sources have...
  • Va. Student Held for Months in Saudi Prison (November 22, 2003)
    ...a in the case of a group of Northern Virginia men alleged to be part of a "jihad network." According to the agent's testimony, Abu Ali told his Saudi inter...
  • Annan Seeks UN Commission on Genocide (January 26, 2004)
    ...ockholm museum refused to remove a display showing a picture of an Islamic Jihad suicide bomber from an exhibit linked to the conference. Israel said the p...
  • Pentagon wants to send troops to Indonesia (March 19, 2002)
    ...y before Sept. 11. It trained a local Islamic militant group called Laskar Jihad. Another obstacle for the Pentagon is Congress. It has barred funds for...
  • US Response to Israeli Attack on Syria Muted (October 5, 2003)
    ...ld lead to hostilities." Israel launched the attack on the alleged Islamic Jihad training camp in response to a suicide bombing Saturday in Haifa that kill...
  • Ironic if Bush Himself Causes Jihad (September 10, 2002)
    ...bilised. What a disastrous twist of fate it would be if the feared Islamic jihad were brought into being not by the al-Qaeda gang but by the President of t...
  • Interview with Al Qaeda's Abu Ghaith (June 24, 2002)
    ...enabled us to fulfill this absent obligation, and I mean the obligation of Jihad in the path of Allah, and I thank Allah that He helped us to revive it esp...
  • UN Debates Iraqi Self-Rule Resolution (July 22, 2003)
    ...that there is intense debate in some hardline Shia circles as to whether a jihad, or holy war, should be declared to recruit an army to challenge American...
  • Alleged Bin Ladin Statement - May 6, 2004 (May 7, 2004)
    ...plans the way they drew them, and this is thanks to God and thanks to your jihad and the jihad of the people who support you. God reward you with the best...
  • Marooned Taliban Tick Off Grim Hours in an Afghan Jail (March 14, 2002)
    ... to fulfill his duty to be a good Muslim. "I was a photographer for the jihad," Mr. Khan explained. "Jihad has many aspects: fighting, newspapers and ta...
  • Al-Qa'ida's Al-Zawahiri Attacks French Ban on Headscarf (February 24, 2004)
    ... becomes a means of resisting the West or choosing Islam as a way of life, jihad, and resistance, it becomes terrorism, narrow-mindedness, and fanaticism t...
  • Al-Qa'ida Military Training on the Internet (February 16, 2002)
    ...een supporting the Taliban since the start of the war on 7 October is the "Jihad On Line" site, so much so that the Islamists themselves considered the sit...
  • Killing the 20th Hijacker (April 2, 2002)
    ...rrorism that there is nothing more honorable than becoming a martyr during jihad. And he knew as a soldier in the movement that at one point or another heí...
  • US Peacekeeping at Risk (June 21, 2002)
    ... Dicker, of Human Rights Watch, called the American stance an "ideological jihad"....
  • Pope Warns Against Iraq War (December 25, 2002)
    ...he Iraqi people were ready to "deter aggression" by following "the road of Jihad (holy war) and struggle"....
  • Bush Offers Nothing to Palestinians, Plenty for Terrorists (July 9, 2002)
    ...nk and Gaza as long as Israelis face terror. Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad understand the covert invitation, and respond with acts of terror against...
  • The Guerilla Trap in Afghanistan (March 23, 2002)
    ...us is the link between factions within Indonesia's military and extremist "jihad" fighters. Instead of talking of widening the "war against terrorism", Was...
  • What Society Should Know (December 10, 2004)
    ...ians and that of the Jews in the Holocaust. The shooting of wanted Islamic Jihad militant Qamail in the village of Raba, near Jenin, after he was disarmed,...
  • Al-Qa'ida Tape Pays Tribute To Saudi 'Martyrs' in Clashes With Saudi Forces (December 5, 2003)
    ...His messenger, may God's peace and blessings be upon him, regarding waging jihad against world infidelity. By God, the happy person is the one who is marty...
  • Abbas Hopeful of Hamas Ceasefire Agreement (May 29, 2003)
    ... a ceasefire. He said he also hoped to reach an agreement with Islamic Jihad, but had not met representatives of the group yet. Hamas official Abde...
  • The War After the War (August 21, 2003)
    ...ne missing" in the past two months. Many crossed over into Iraq to mount a jihad against the occupation. More suicide bombings can be expected. More U.S. s...
  • Four in US Charged in Plan to Join al Qaeda (October 4, 2002)
    ...fter the Sept. 11 attacks to join with Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in a "jihad" against the United States. The Federal Bureau of Investigation also be...
  • Qaeda Videos Seem to Show Chemical Tests (August 18, 2002)
    ...ow be underestimating Al Qaeda. "In conjunction with the Encylopedia of Jihad and other written manuals, the tapes show meticulous planning, preparation...
  • Israel to Expand Settlements at Golan Height (December 31, 2003)
    ...ria must crack down on terror groups operating from its territory. Islamic Jihad and Hamas are among the groups that have offices in Damascus. Sharon al...
  • Al-Qa'ida Training Official Threatens to Clip Wings of US Eagle (June 22, 2003)
    ...ipping of wings, but all of this serves the interests of the world Islamic jihad. Iran and the Negotiations [Khalil] What is your comment on rep...
  • Fatal Attacks Indicate New Taliban Offensive In Afghanistan (January 28, 2004)
    ...to be hiding inthe country's southern mountains, last year vowed to wage a jihad, or holy war, against foreign troops and the US-backed government in the c...
  • Toothless 'Interim Council' Roars Against the Press (September 24, 2003)
    ...re now more than a hundred newspapers in Baghdad alone — of incitement to 'jihad' against the occupation authorities and totally false information about th...
  • Bin Laden Reacts to Sept. 11 (December 13, 2001)
    ...the grace of Allah. This is the guidance of Allah and the blessed fruit of jihad. UBL: Thanks to Allah. What is the stand of the Mosques there (in Saud...
  • Officials Reveal Bin Laden Plan (May 18, 2002)
    ...een," or "commander of the faithful." He urged all Muslims to "support his jihad against the enemies of Islam." In the spring of 2001ówhen the plots to...
  • Rising Muslim Power in Africa Causes Unrest in Nigeria and Elsewhere (November 1, 2001)
    ...ked. We had Shariah. We are Muslims. Why don't we return to ourselves?" Jihad, Two Centuries Ago Islam came centuries ago to the Hausa ethnic gro...
  • Angry Iraqi Town Buries Nine Police Killed by US (September 13, 2003)
    ..."The blood of our martyrs will not go in vain," and "Falluja will keep its jihad," the latter a term for Muslim holy struggle. The mosque's imam, Fawzi...
  • Al-Jazeera, Al-Arabiya Come Under Renewed US Criticism (April 13, 2004)
    ...Al-Jazeera is regularly the butt of criticism, often misplaced," spokesman Jihad Ballout said Monday. The widely viewed channel is merely "reporting eve...
  • Al Qaeda's Capabilities May Be Growing (October 22, 2002)
    ...tinue." Gunaratna agrees: "As long as people believe they are waging a jihad for God, many people will support it and join it."...
  • Europe-Wide Dragnets (April 20, 2004)
    ...." A Spanish High Court judge charged him with having "raised awareness of jihad" and having "indicated specifically since 2003 that he was preparing a vio...
  • Sharon Threatens to Hit Israel's Enemies Anywhere (October 7, 2003)
    ...starting a civil war. The Palestinian resistance groups, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, cautioned in a Beirut statement against the Palestinian Authority using t...
  • Qaeda Leader Deplores Muslims' 'Renunciation' of Jihad (January 5, 2004)
    ...nd that the group will gather once again along the path of obeying God and jihad in His cause. I address you while waiting the day when you will renew the...
  • US Behind Secret Transfer of Terror Suspects (March 11, 2002)
    ...of three members of Egypt's other main underground group, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, according to testimony provided to their attorneys in Cairo. Also in 1...
  • Charter of the Hamas (August 10, 2002)
    ...n the path of its Lord. In so doing, it joined its hands with those of all Jihad fighters for the purpose of liberating Palestine. The souls of its Jihad f...
  • U.S. Policy Harms Prospects For Middle East Peace (November 22, 2004)
    ...ns. Conflict is likely between the militants in Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade and the more moderate faction of the two...
  • Can We Kill Osama's Ideas? (January 1, 2002)
    ...ng into the Western psyche, not to mention the Muslim one, the rhetoric of jihad against "Jewish and Christian Crusaders." We may never know when the Makta...
  • Israel Targets Palestinian Moderate (July 10, 2002)
    ...gs in Jerusalem killed 26 people. Palestinian sources said that an Islamic Jihad militant, Muannad Daraghmeh, 22, was killed by Israeli troops near Jenin,...
  • Afghan Political Violence on the Rise (August 3, 2003)
    ... to pronouncements by the Taliban Islamic movement, there is no legitimate jihad, or holy war, against the central government or the foreign troops that su...
  • Saddam Husayn Denies Any Link to Al-Najaf Explosion (September 1, 2003)
    ...This time will be their end through the will, heroic resistance, and great jihad of the Iraqis and their faithful brothers from the sons of our nation. Glo...
  • Why Aren't US Journalists Reporting From Iraq? (September 12, 2002)
    ... As in the 1980s, this creepy strongman is standing between Iraqis and the jihad. This observation is not difficult to come by. All it takes is a li...
  • Chairman Walks Out of Afghan Council (December 31, 2003)
    ...hans for the destructive infighting in the early 1990's. He praised the jihad, when the Afghans fought against the Soviet occupation, but said the 12 ye...
  • Al Qaeda's Grocery Lists and Manuals of Killing (March 17, 2002)
    ...ner in a small village in Pakistan, set down his oath of allegiance to the jihad. "I, Amir Maawia Siddiqi, son of Abdul Rahman Siddiqi, state in the pr...
  • NION: A Representative of the People (October 7, 2002)
    ...( Applause ) LEE HOCHBERG: Though a few signs in the room labeled him "Jihad Jim." ANOTHER MAN: And I think you and members of your party would ris...
  • Arab Critics of Suicide Bombing (June 21, 2002)
    ...an leaders and replace them with a religious authorities. "Through their 'jihad', HAMAS and its allies seek — in addition to abolishing the Oslo acco...
  • Why Doesn't the CIA Want to Talk to a Top Ex-Taliban? (February 15, 2002)
    ...n the Pakistani city of Peshawar. Called "al Farkan," its goal was to wage jihad against the American presence in Afghanistan. Khaksar says that there are...
  • No Easy Victory Is Seen in Fierce Battle (March 5, 2002)
    ... into Afghan life. Many young Pakistanis who came to Afghanistan for a new jihad against the Americans have also returned home – some with the official ble...
  • Why bin Laden's 'Confessions' Keep Flopping (April 18, 2002)
    ...grated [from Mecca to Medina]" whereas "Mujahideen" means people who "make jihad." This is how it would affect the credibility of the translator: Anybody w...
  • Sharon Tells Palestinians to Oust Their Leaders (October 14, 2002)
    ... on condition of anonymity, said both were members of the militant Islamic Jihad. Meanwhile, Israeli Defence Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and Foreign M...
  • Examination of a 'Loya Jirga' (June 10, 2002)
    ...f being told they had no right to vote because they hadn't participated in jihad, or holy war, during the past two decades. Has a loya jirga been used b...
  • Terror's Winning Strategy (July 1, 2002)
    ...y targets in the West Bank and Gaza. The militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, meanwhile, were given the liberty to carry out attacks against civilian t...
  • Indonesian Arrested in Manila Had Ties to al Qaeda (May 9, 2002)
    ...urope and elsewhere because it offered the opportunity to participate in a jihad, or holy war, the official said. He said many of the pupils joined in...
  • The Two Faces of Saudi Arabia (May 22, 2002)
    ...efense minister and volunteered to mobilize veterans of the 1979-89 Afghan jihad against Soviet occupation to defend Saudi Arabia against Iraq. The Saudi g...
  • Two Worlds Paired by War (December 31, 2001)
    ... Chechens, Tajiks, Arabs, a Westerner or two – foot soldiers in the global jihad. The woman's husband had been found working at the mosque and was impri...
  • The Untidiness of Freedom (April 23, 2003)
    ...d terrorist groups, namely Lebanon's Hizbullah and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas groups. Clearly seeking to remind the Syrian government that the...
  • Normalization For Peace (December 9, 2004)
    ...inating the few senior Palestinian figures, including those from Hamas and Jihad, remaining. Though three names have already been touted in connection w...
  • A Lexicon Learned (June 27, 2002)
    ...Arabia, he asked "every nation to stop the flow of money to Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hizbullah". And in an equally clear reference to Egypt, he demanded th...
  • What Is the Position of the West Regarding Democracy in Saudi Arabia? (February 11, 2004)
    ... US intelligence agencies and administrations supported the leaders of the jihad in Afghanistan, but then turned against them. And they are also aware of t...
  • The Afghan Battle that Would Be Over in 24 Hours (March 7, 2002)
    ...from a variety of sources ... that the local fundamentalists have called a jihad against the Americans and their coalition partners," General 'Buster' Hage...
  • Qaeda Position on Recruiting Europeans, Americans (August 3, 2003)
    ...rom talking to Americans who converted to Islam and who compared Islam and Jihad to the bohemian life they were leading, Al-Qa'ida sensed that there is thi...
  • Marines Face Afghan Backlash (April 13, 2002)
    ... fundamentalist warlord who has been urging Afghans to begin a holy war or Jihad against Western troops in the country. Delays mean not all the 1700 Ro...
  • Debate Over Suicide Operations (June 27, 2002)
    ...gs is in Ariel Sharon's hands as much it is with Hamas, Fatah, the Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Indeed, Sharon...
  • Full Text of Bin Ladin 4 January Audio Message (March 4, 2004)
    ...pon you. My message to you concerns inciting and continuing to urge for jihad to repulse the grand plots that have been hatched against our nation, espe...
  • Religious Enlightenment Could Contain Islamic Terrorism (July 17, 2002)
    ...concert with the other Egyptian extremist fundamentalist organization, the Jihad Group, by calling for toppling the secular government. Although the jo...
  • Illusions of Iraqi Democracy (October 8, 2002)
    ...and descend into chaos, destabilizing its neighbors and giving rise to new jihad groups that will attack Americans. Not only will there be no democracy in...
  • Top Israeli Says Settlers Incited Riot in Hebron (July 31, 2002)
    ...t was in the past,'' Lerman said. Khaled al-Batsch, a leader of Islamic Jihad in Gaza, said that because of the magnitude of civilian casualties when Is...
  • Important Commandments to the Mujahidin and in Reply to the Defeatists (July 5, 2004)
    ...The Jama'at al-Tawhid Wal Jihad (Monotheism and Jihad Group), led by Al-Qa'ida operative Abu-Mus'ab al-Zarqawi, was observed on...
  • Sectarian Discord in Iraq (February 13, 2004)
    ...British occupation through the glorious Revolution of Twenty be considered jihad, and blessing and collaborating with the US occupation in the 21st century...
  • George W's Bloody Folly (June 26, 2002)
    ...y people celebrating yesterday were the Islamist extremists of Hamas and Jihad, chiding moderate Palestinians for ever believing that politics, rather ...
  • Sept. 11 Commission Finds US Security Gaps (January 26, 2003)
    ... financier of the plot; and Saeed al-Gamdi, who was known by the nickname "Jihad," or holy war. A hijacker with a similar name, Saeed al-Ghamdi, who hel...
  • Indonesian Terrorist Group Still Potent (August 18, 2003)
    ... his given name — Encep Nurjaman. Though he was determined to fight in the jihad, his true calling appeared to organizing and financing other would-be figh...
  • Students, Nuns and Sailor-Mongers, Beware (October 17, 2003)
    ...waged a continual campaign against Bush's environmental record. Ashcroft's jihad against free speech, however, is not limited to environmentalists. Conside...
  • Pentagon Unleashes Holy Warrior (October 17, 2003)
    ...ion, and it's a serious mistake to allow a man who believes in a Christian jihad to hold such a job. For one thing, Boykin has made it clear that he...
  • How Much Do US Presidents Know about Terror? (May 17, 2002)
    ...nd Sheikhî Abdul Rahman, who as a hard-core member of the violent Egyptian Jihad Islami, was a co-planner of the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in...
  • The Saudi Fifth Column On Our Nation's Campuses (April 5, 2004)
    ...tion (IIRO), and others which raised money for Al Qaeda, Hamas and Islamic Jihad.[1] But the government has so far ignored an even larger network of Saudi...
  • Saddam's July 8th Speech (July 8, 2003)
    ...ery title, occasion, subject, and issue that reflects your genuineness and jihad in rejecting the invasion and occupation. God is with you. God i...
  • The Syrian Bet (July 28, 2003)
    ...targets in Argentina. Syria has also allowed Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, two groups that have staged numerous suicide bombings inside Israel, to m...
  • Al-Qa'ida Member Recalls US Bombardment, Accuses Taliban of Betrayal (October 29, 2003)
    ...was included in an article published in the second edition of the "Sawt al-Jihad" magazine, a copy of which Al-Sharq al-Awsat received the day before yeste...
  • Weaker al Qaeda Shifts to Smaller-Scale Attacks (October 15, 2002)
    ... attack Iraq. "We congratulate the Muslim nation for the daring and heroic jihad operations which our brave sons conducted in Yemen against the Christian o...
  • Agencies Monitor Iraqis in US for Terror Threat (November 17, 2002)
    ...to be inflamed by a war with Iraq, among them Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad. "I think we make a mistake when we assume that the threat is only Al Q...
  • How America Created a Terrorist Haven (August 20, 2003)
    ...on the job, it is hard for them to imagine another life. Several described jihad to me as being "addictive." Thus the best way to fight them is to ensur...
  • In Afghanistan, US Shooting in the Dark (June 28, 2003)
    ...ic, the leader of the Taliban, Mullah Omar, urges Muslims to step up their jihad against the US and other coalition occupation forces in Afghanistan. Omar...
  • GI Casualties in Iraq Rising, Raise Worries of US (May 28, 2003)
    ...ight in Fallouja, some residents portrayed the clash as the beginning of a jihad, or holy war, to oust the Americans. "They are not wanted here. No one...
  • US Ships al Qaeda Suspects to Arab States (July 26, 2002)
    ...alance its support for hard-line anti-Israel organizations such as Islamic Jihad and Lebanon's Shia Muslim Hizbullah. "Al Qaeda and its associates are n...
  • Iraq Was Invaded 'To Protect Israel' - US Official (March 31, 2004)
    ...self the question, 'gee, is Iraq tied to Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the people who are carrying out suicide bombings in Israel?' Easy ques...
  • India Doubting its US 'Strategic Partnership' (March 27, 2004)
    ...and Pakistan have launched what some in India consider to be another joint jihad, this time against the same jihadis whom they had urged, trained and finan...
  • All Eyes on the Man Who Stepped into Iraqi Inferno (June 30, 2004)
    ...keep the Americans in Iraq as a full-time shooting gallery for the Islamic jihad. But Allawi's strengths are his weaknesses. He is a former senior Baath...
  • Due Process Necessary, Even in War (June 25, 2002)
    ...ed a confession from Lindh that he had deliberately enlisted in Al Qaeda's jihad against America. But the government's version of these interrogationsówhic...
  • Buried With Chocolate in His Hand (July 7, 2002)
    ...aved father refused to let anyone — Hamas, the Popular Front, Islamic Jihad, the Brigades — put their mark on the two innocent children riding th...
  • Karzai's Control Often Illusory (February 25, 2002)
    ...t do it when officials are being appointed simply because they were in the jihad. It goes against everything we are trying to do." An even more serious...
  • Left Behind (September 28, 2002)
    ... Rahman, a blind Egyptian cleric and the spiritual leader of the worldwide jihad movement, whose most recent address before the Metropolitan Correctional C...
  • Bin Ladin's Former 'Bodyguard' Interviewed on Al-Qa'ida Strategies (August 3, 2004)
    ...ouths from the northern group the founders, because since he announced the jihad on the United States he only had a few Egyptians and Algerians left. He di...
  • Why Does 'Al-Qa'ida' Point Its Spearhead at the United Nations? (May 11, 2004)
    ...Al-Qa'ida members, and many of them have gone to Iraq to take part in the "Jihad" there. Along with growth of the Iraqi people's resistance forces, Al-Q...
  • Can Hussein Strike Back? (January 26, 2003)
    ...i intelligence officials believe that a war would prompt Hamas and Islamic Jihad to set in motion a new wave of suicide bombings. ARE WE PREPARED FOR T...
  • Website of the Hizb ut-Tahrir Bangladesh (February 2, 2004)
    ...ent the Muslim army from bringing the Light of Islam to their homeland, by Jihad and clear conquest." Khilafat: This section carries the 16 October 2003...
  • Israeli Reservists Tell Of Jenin Camp Assault (April 26, 2002)
    ...itant groups, the Islamic Resistance Movement, known as Hamas, and Islamic Jihad, as well as fighters affiliated with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. ...
  • Middle East Speech of President George W. Bush (July 24, 2002)
    ...orist groups seeking the destruction of Israel -- including Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah. Every nation actually committed to peace must block the sh...
  • Iraq's Humanitarian Crisis (March 28, 2003)
    ...osovo. President Bush, Mr. Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein are waging their jihad. And they've made it nearly impossible for anyone to help the victims of t...
  • Sharon, Likud Party Nurtured Rise of Hamas (June 4, 2002)
    ...ine. Inside the occupied territories, another Islamic group called Islamic Jihad was struggling to gain support among Palestinians living under occupation....
  • Somalian Link Seen to Al Qaeda (February 25, 2002)
    ...den's 1998 edict, issued under the banner "International Islamic Front for Jihad Against the Jews and Crusaders," had its roots in the 1993 attacks on U.S....
  • Fear, Rage Fester Inside for West Bank Children (August 6, 2002)
    ... launch kites. The green-and-black flags of the militant Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups hang from power lines where they were thrown as acts of defiance. ...
  • Prophet of Hope (August 27, 2002)
    ...line Muslim clerics, those who endorse, for example, the Hamas and Islamic Jihad suicide bombings against Israelis? Don't be so sure, comes the answer. It...
  • Bush Aide Takes Aim at 'War on Terror' (June 16, 2003)
    ...en? It's still out there." After spending all day wrestling with global jihad, Beers would go home to his Adams Morgan townhouse. "You knew not to get t...
  • Palestinian Elections Now (June 13, 2002)
    ...the general good is concerned. He never really reined in Hamas and Islamic Jihad which suited Israel perfectly: it would have a ready- made excuse to use t...
  • Reflections on Tsunamis and the State of Exception (December 29, 2004)
    ...and poor produced its dialectical synthesis as non-state actors fighting a Jihad. Subhumanity produces posthumanity in the laboratory of the profane Earth....
  • The Battle Between Rumsfeld and the Pentagon (April 7, 2003)
    ...ualties a day and they die by the thousands, they’re still winning. It’s a jihad, and it’s a good thing to die. This is no longer a secular war.” There wer...
  • How Not to Overthrow Saddam (July 15, 2002)
    ...ncing link between Saddam and al-Qaeda. In fact, Saddam is anathema to the jihad-minded Islamic fundamentalists. This has not deterred the administration f...
  • Saudi Civil Rights Activist Cites 'Mujahidin Sources' on Riyadh Bombing (November 11, 2003)
    ...onths ago. A force of about 3,000 security men could not overcome a single jihad unit of not more than 20 mujahidin. One of them was martyred several hours...
  • Is Protest Music Dead? (April 16, 2002)
    ...ssed the second Bush in "What Would You Do," a track on his upcoming Sonic Jihad album "Now ask yourself who's the one with the most to gain/Before 911 mot...
  • What's Wrong With This Picture? (January 7, 2002)
    ...ble whammy followed their uncritical participation in the long, irrelevant jihad against those moderate Republicans, the Clintons.) Last year, they hel...
  • Diary of a Terrorist (January 1, 2002)
    ...ctor. I went to mosques and madrasahs and talked about ideas pertaining to jihad. Among the madrasah students, I felt there was great potential for an Isla...
  • The Disintegration of Palestine (April 29, 2004)
    ...he West Bank. At Bir Zeit University, a coalition of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad won twenty-five of fifty-one seats in elections for the student union; Ara...
  • A Road Map to the Oslo Cul-de-Sac (May 15, 2003)
    ...nst Israeli soldiers and settlers. The other main factions, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), have all con...
  • Israel: The Threat from Within (February 26, 2004)
    ...tect its citizens against the murderous suicide bombings of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and other Palestinian terrorist groups; a government that fails to protec...
  • Off Target & Stillborn: US-Based Alhurra Fails to Impress (February 19, 2004)
    ...espondent), Mahmoud Shamam (editor of the Arabic version of Newsweek), and Jihad Al-Khazeri. Al-Khazeri immediately outlined what he believed to be an impo...
  • Things We Lost In the Fire (September 17, 2002)
    ... local Florida shock-jocks had recklessly denounced Al-Arian for fomenting jihad under the Tampa palms, and he soon found himself unemployed. College f...
  • Losing the Peace? (May 13, 2002)
    ...nt of the movement against the Taliban, but these people, a small party in jihad times, are now holding all the key positions." On the drive back from...
  • The Mess in Afghanistan (February 12, 2004)
    ...ich remain elusive but well armed, and have adopted the rhetoric of global jihad against the US. Along with Osama bin Laden, the Taliban's Mullah Mohammad...
  • To Invade or Not to Invade? (November 18, 2002)
    ... probably the shortest possible summation of the current global situation, Jihad vs. McWorld, and William Galston, best known as a Senior Advisor in th...
  • Whitewash As Public Service: How The 9/11 Commission Defrauds The Nation (October 1, 2004)
    ...tates.” Chapters end with nightmare curtain lines: “If the instigation for jihad against the Jews and Americans to liberate the holy places ‘is considered...
  • The Peace Movement Plans for the Future (July 24, 2003)
    ... and has even tapped NYU law professor Noah Feldman, whose new book, After Jihad, has won acclaim from many Muslims (and who previously worked for Al G...
  • Creating the Enemy (March 22, 2004)
    ...04 (16) The new nihilists of terrorism, Scotsman, 12 March 2004 (17) Jihad on the cards, Tony Karon, Time, February 2004 (18) See Does al-Qaeda ex...
  • What I Heard about Iraq (February 3, 2005)
    ... in joy”. Extremists in the region would have to rethink their strategy of jihad. Moderates throughout the region would take heart. And our ability to adva...
  • The Need for a New Wilsonianism (September 2, 2002)
    ... of the international community, the terrorists apparently do. Bin Laden's jihad was launched against "Crusaders and Jews" and the "iniquitous United Natio...
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