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Terrorism Peta Tarlinton2 Quoted in Paul Berman, Terror and Liberalism, W. Norton & Co., New York, 2003, p. 75.3 Quoted in ibid., p. 101.4 J. A. Nedoroscik, ‘Extremist Groups in Egypt’, Terrorism and Political Violence, vol. 14,no. 2, Summer 2002, p. 54.5 Berman, Terror and Liberalism, p. 87.6 Ibid., p. 92.7 Sayyid Qutb, Milestones, Mother Mosque Foundation, New York, 1979, p. 94.8 Ibid., p. 81.9 Ibid., p. 94.10 Ibid., p. 96.11 Ibid., p. 132.12 Ibid., p. 131.13 Ibid., p. 63. For a discussion of jihad see R. C. Martin, ‘Religious Violence in Islam:Towards an Understanding of the Discourse on Jihad in Modern Egypt’, in PaulWilkinson and Alasdair M. Stewart (eds), Contemporary Research on Terrorism,Aberdeen University Press, Aberdeen, 1987, p. 61.14 Haddad, ‘Sayyid Qutb: Ideologue of Islamic Revival’, pp. 84−5.15 Sayyid Qutb, Milestones, p. 70.16 Ibid., pp. 57; 71.17 Montasser al-Zayyat, The Road to Al Qaeda: The Story of Bin-Laden’s Right Hand Man,Pluto Press, London, 2004, p. 25.18 Virginia Murr, The Power of Ideas: Sayyid Qutb and Islamism, Rockford CollegeSummer Research Project 2004, Rockford College, 2004, at .19 Ayman Zawahari, Knights Under the Banner of the Prophet, quoted in al-Zayyat, TheRoad to Al Qaeda: The Story of Bin Laden’s Right Hand Man, pp. 24−5.20 Christopher Blanchard, Al Qaeda: Statements and Evolving Ideology, CRS Report forCongress, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, Washington DC,November 2004, p. 6.The AuthorPeta Tarlinton graduated from the University of Queensland in 2003 with a combineddegree in law and international relations. She completed the Defence Graduate DevelopmentProgram in 2004 and will undertake further Arabic language training at the AmericanUniversity in Cairo in 2005. Ms Tarlinton currently works as an analyst with the DefenceIntelligence Organisation.page 180 Volume II, Number 2 Australian Army Journal