Islamic Jihad and Al Queda and Osama Bin Lauden are all ISLAMISTS TERRORISTS. They are in no way secular. Many Arab groups had support from the USSR, this is because the USA backed Israel...so the USSR backed the Arabs. Its as simple as that.
Are you going to tell me that Saddam Hussein ran a “secular government” also? Do you get ALL your talking points from NPR and the NYTimes?
==I don’t for a second believe your ‘darling of NPR and the NYTimes’ source that claims that 71% of Hezbollah suicide bombers are not inspired by Islam
Where is your evidence that Pape is lying? Facts are facts. It’s time you started facing up to them. He had a team of researches scour those videos and track down the families of the suicide bombers. Are you saying they are all involved in some sort of conspiracy to fabricate the data? If you have a problem with their interpretation of the data, then I will agree with you. But the data itself is crystal clear—a shocking 71% of Hezbollah “Party of God” suicide bombers turned out to be secular Communists/socialist revolutionaries.
==Islamic Jihad and Al Queda and Osama Bin Lauden are all ISLAMISTS TERRORISTS
Are you denying that Ayman al-Zawahiri (former head of the Islamic Jihad, and OBL’s right hand man) is a KGB/FSB agent?