Word: jihadist
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...convoy passed abandoned bunkers, some manned by the corpses of Taliban troops. A few hundred yards ahead, Alliance infantrymen exchanged small-arms fire with Taliban stragglers. An Alliance foot soldier, hit in the back, lay doubled over in pain. Others rained blows on a captured jihadist as he was duckwalked toward a jeep. Occasionally a small black puff and a crack would mark the explosion of a rocket-propelled grenade. But the fiercest fighting, a remarkably brief exchange of recoilless rifle and mortar, had tapered off shortly before; and by 4:30 the brigade rolled over what for two years...
Jamal Ahmed Al-Fadl still has his face but not much else of his original identity. He was once a trusted lieutenant in the Jihadist organization of Osama bin Laden. For the past five years, he has been known in the corridors of the FBI only as CS1--Confidential Source 1. Now he has a completely new identity under the federal witness-protection program, because he is spilling the beans on the world's most-wanted terrorist...
...Fadl sat in a New York City courtroom last week telling the world the intimate details he has been revealing to U.S. investigators over the years, about how bin Laden's Jihadist organization, called al Qaeda (the Base), works and how its terror conspiracies evolve. He is the dramatic first witness in the trial of four alleged minions of bin Laden's accused of conspiring to bomb two U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998, setting off twin blasts that killed 224 people, 12 of them Americans. Al-Fadl is not the only star witness expected to finger the Saudi...
...arguing that they will say anything to protect themselves. Of course the U.S. hopes their compelling evidence will convict the four men currently on trial. But the real target is still bin Laden, indicted in November 1998 on 238 counts of conspiracy and still out there, masterminding the unending Jihadist threat of terror. Investigators know from the details piling up in New York how his organization works. But what they really need to know is when and where he will try to strike next. Or how to get him before he does...