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Mujahideen is Arabic for a group/band of freedom fighters.
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Posted in Mujahideen, Soviets in Afghanistan, pashtun tribe, taliban.
19 Years Ago Today, Russians Exit Afghanistan « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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Posted in Mujahideen, Soviets in Afghanistan, pashtun tribe, taliban.
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"We [the Jordanian himself and the Taliban, whom he describes as Mujahideen or the holy warriors] arranged together this attack to let the Americans understand that our belief in Allah … cannot be exchanged for all the wealth in the world," he says.
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"We [the Jordanian himself and the Taliban, whom he describes as Mujahideen or the holy warriors] arranged together this attack to let the Americans understand that our belief in Allah … cannot be exchanged for all the wealth in the world," he says.
Theodore's World 2010
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The word Mujahideen itself defines people who carry out 'Jihad', a word that defies definition.
Bloggers.Pakistan 2009
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Indian police say the Indian Mujahideen is an offshoot of the banned Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), but that local Muslims appear to have been given training and backing from militant groups in neighbouring Pakistan and Bangladesh.
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Indian police say the Indian Mujahideen is an offshoot of the banned Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), but that local Muslims appear to have been given training and backing from militant groups in neighbouring Pakistan and Bangladesh.
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It has worked closely with a shadowy, homegrown terrorist organization called the Indian Mujahideen, which is thought to be behind the Mumbai bombings last month.
From Kashmiri Insurgents to Global Jihadis Sumit Ganguly 2011
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An estimated twenty thousand to thirty thousand fighters from roughly twenty Muslim countries joined the battle, famously including Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, who together later founded al Qaeda.1 For the United States, supporting the Mujahideen was a cost-effective strategy of opposing the Soviets and scoring an important victory in the cold war.
The Scorpion’s Tail Zahid Hussain 2010
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