jihadists

The fact that no one was badly hurt, bar one of the suspected jihadists, has made it easier for Britons to shrug off the latest attacks.

Iraq has long suffered from the infiltration of jihadists from Syria, who might be emboldened if the Assad regime were to fall.

Syria, if it wants to re-engage with the West, could do more to stop jihadists seeping across the border.

Indonesia has also persuaded reformed jihadists to try to talk their brethren out of their beliefs, with mixed results.

The jihadists had been unable to overthrow this state, but we remember how they struck at American targets instead.

So where the army is not the jihadists' target, it does not think it necessary to do much.

The jihadists say they are grappling with the sewage system and trying to provide water.

These governments fear that Yemen is close to being a failed state and is already a haven for some of the world's toughest jihadists.

Who can say that a Taliban victory in Afghanistan would not be a precursor for the triumph for jihadists in Pakistan?

While officers draw increasingly nice distinctions between different jihadists, the militant groups are bleeding into one another.

Though details were murky, both were widely surmised to be the work of Sunni Arab jihadists opposed to the governments in both countries.

For a while the jihadists thought they could carve out a base in Iraq from which to destabilise the region.

Radical imams and other recruiters in Yemen provided money and made travel arrangements for would-be jihadists.

There is an increasing amount of chatter . . . among jihadists who claim they want to see action against China.

But, you could say, those are the tactics of jihadists; they're supposed to behave abominably.

The stakes are high: failure would not only bring back the Taliban and al-Qaeda, but embolden jihadists around the world.

It may be that jihadists lack the ability to, say, induce a refinery to blow itself up.

Sometimes that is just a label that the jihadists stick on people they suspect of working for Ethiopian intelligence.

It may find itself run by a mixture of jihadists, including both AQAP and criminal gangs; exclusive AQAP rule seems unlikely at present.

But Sergio Vieira de Mello, who was killed when jihadists blew up his UN headquarters in Baghdad in 2003, was an exception.

It got rid of a dangerous dictator but gave the jihadists a popular cause against American occupiers in the Muslim heartland.

Some hope the bombing may even mark the beginning of the end for the jihadists.

Kenya says it has arrested a number of Shabab fighters in the town, including some non-Somali jihadists.

Anti-illegal-immigration activists often cite the threat of jihadists creeping across the Rio Grande.

But, in the eyes of the authorities at least, there are still good and bad jihadists.

Other senior operatives are loose in the lawless southern Philippines, which serves as a regional training base for jihadists.

American weapons are said to be targeting leading jihadists with armed drones and fighter jets.

But as the Indian government deliberates, this year's bloody summer in Kashmir is already becoming a recruiting tool for jihadists.

However, the report also points out that if the Iraqi jihadists fail, "fewer fighters will be inspired to carry on the fight. "

In their weakness the jihadists in Somalia are even more likely to strike Kenya, Ethiopia or perhaps South Africa and Europe.

To date, Pakistani military operations against jihadists in the tribal areas have been bloody but ineffectual.

With the Taliban triumphant on Pakistan's western border, jihadists there could direct their energies to the eastern border with India.

In the flush of prisoner releases, hundreds if not thousands of Egyptian jihadists are once again at large.

Local jihadists can help the fight, but they also have their own agendas. This may drag al Qaeda into local disputes it would rather avoid.

The EPRDF may be authoritarian, but many think it is the best bet for cutting poverty at home and checking jihadists in Somalia.

The ability of jihadists with guns to control territory is no proof of popularity.

Abu Muntasir, the head of an Islamic charity in Britain, argues that many jihadists are responding to real injustices in the world.

But the activities of the jihadists make it hard to catch them.

The group cross-pollinates jihadists from Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines.

If such collaboration brings useful foreign aid, it also risks a nationalist backlash that helps the jihadists.

Mr Haqqani had once written a book detailing the links between the army and jihadists.

It has lost over 3, 000 men in its war with the Taliban; and fewer jihadists are entering Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Many Yemeni jihadists want to overthrow the country's secular government and replace it with an Islamist caliphate.

Even the actions of so-called jihadists have been inspired by politics, not God.

African Union peacekeepers claimed the jihadists were encircled.

On his computer they found evidence of contacts with other jihadists across Europe. Among them was Irhabi007.

It is close to Syria, from which foreign jihadists still infiltrate.

On the one side are defence types, eager to fight jihadists and angry at Pakistani meddling in southern and eastern Afghanistan.

It will keep its spy network in place and will patrol its borders aggressively against incursions by jihadists.

The greater struggle against jihadists is in the realm of ideas.

By pursuing the jihadists into Pakistan, America has helped to destabilize a paranoid, nuclear-armed country of 190m Muslims.

By pursuing the jihadists into Pakistan, America has helped to destabilise a paranoid, nuclear-armed country of 190m Muslims.

Second, recognize that jihadists will be defeated mainly by Muslims themselves.

Second, recognise that jihadists will be defeated mainly by Muslims themselves.

The Yemeni security services are similarly unreliable and have collaborated with jihadists at times.

Regardless of origin, the jihadists share a common aim: "to balkanise India, " as Mr John puts it.

Then there is Inspire, the online magazine published by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and aimed at aspiring jihadists in the West.

Above all, most of Pakistan is not currently in the jihadists' camp.

These local jihadists merged with fugitive Saudi al-Qaeda operatives to form al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in January 2009.

In 2009 a Pentagon-trained counter-terrorism unit was diverted to Yemen's north to fight Houthi rebels who are not generally jihadists.

So what do we know about Libyan jihadists from the Sinjar records?

He does not want to add to the problem by bringing more foreign jihadists into American custody.

At the same time, the drones are clearly inflicting significant damage on the jihadists.

Even more important, local jihadists can tar al Qaeda with their brush when they mess up. Which leads to . . .

But they fear that if they challenge the jihadists militarily, the inevitable killing of civilians will make the Islamists more popular.

Most remain under the control of jihadists, at risk of starvation.

For one thing, he is tough on anti-Western jihadists.

To the extent that the jihadists have a leader, it is him.

America has not only to train its ally but also to convince it that jihadists are the real foe.

Or it might open the way to more serious talks with the milder Islamists and help isolate the jihadists, wherever they may be hiding.

The real danger is that the world turns its back on another poor place threatened by jihadists