Word: arabize
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...since he savored his triumph, the army of Taliban faithful has collapsed. If the scouts are right, he has had to flee to the deepest recess of a Tora Bora cave. His prediction of inflamed and inspired Muslims flocking to his cause was refuted by the quiet of the Arab streets and the murmur of clerics who denounced his acts. The superpower that was supposed to cringe and flail instead sent its best warriors to search and destroy...
...were from the beginning a little too impressed. There were endless warnings that making war on a Muslim nation would succeed only in recruiting more enraged volunteers for bin Laden, with a flood of fierce mujahedin going to Afghanistan to confront the infidel. Western experts warned that the seething "Arab street" would rise up against...
...expect a long wait for the mystery of bin Laden's great escape to resolve. A man named Atiqualla is well positioned to know where bin Laden is. He's an assistant to a top commander privy to secret discussions, and he interrogated a dozen Arab prisoners. Some told him they had seen bin Laden recently, other said they hadn't. The bottom line, Atiqualla says, is "no one has any idea...
...Negotiations over Palestinian statehood are not a prospect in which Prime Minister Sharon has ever shown much interest, and would likely require some active interventionist diplomacy on the part of the U.S. - something its European and Arab allies and even Israeli peaceniks are pressing...
...constituency, people back the stronger horse. The ability of al-Qaeda to survive may now depend substantially on perceptions among the Islamists of the relative strengths of bin Laden and his enemies. The Afghan campaign has not diminished the anti-American anger on which bin Laden built his movement - Arab media is dominated not by stories of al-Qaeda's defeat, but by reports of Palestinians under attack by Israel and of U.S. support for Ariel Sharon; moderate Arab regimes are pleading with Washington to abandon talk of a new war with Iraq, and so on. But whether the militants...