Above all, officials say, the new holy warriors are persistent.
With the Soviet retreat in 1989, the holy warriors had won their country back, if only to fight over it themselves.
He fed his friends lines about being holy warriors, and they ate it up.
He is a holy warrior and we will wish him martyrdom.
Nonetheless, it offers a glimpse at how some holy warriors see their cause.
Not all of the insurgents are holy warriors looking for martyrdom.
On the other stand the holy warriors, the hope of the country's myriad dispossessed.
The Iraqis themselves, the writer says, have not been receptive to taking holy warriors into their homes.
The captions told a story of victory for the holy warriors with little to no casualties.
That would make him "a good mujahad," or holy warrior.