Critics of the government campaign against Boko Haram say that the effort has not only failed but has increased the sect's appeal, because the security forces' heavy-handed tactics have given it new sympathizers.
Moreover, analysts regard the new taped message believed to be from Osama bin Laden as a summons to his followers, and perhaps to new sympathizers, to conduct actions against the American targets in response to the possible war in Iraq.
Like Disraeli, Dirksen traveled all over the map on national issues -- from New Deal sympathizer to McCarthyite to bipartisan statesman of civil rights -- but the one thing he didn't do was step out of character.
In April , 1941 Frank published "The Case of H. T. Tsiang" in The New Republic, soliciting sympathizers to write the Department of Justice.
Junior," an apparent reference to a new generation of Nazi sympathizers.
When she wasn't attacking Price for championing "big government and big spending" and coddling Communist sympathizers — "The New Deal party was extremely slow in realizing the dangers of Communism, but my opponent, Melvin Price, was even slower than most of his party" — she was accusing the Truman Administration of treason.
Led by Augusto Pinochet with the support of all military branches, the new government rounded up sympathizers, intellectuals, artists, educators, students, and anyone else on the left they considered dissidents, and engaged in a nationwide purge.
Almost certainly a Southern sympathizer, the new pilot ran the Queen of the West aground within sight of a powerful battery at Fort DeRussy.
To American investigators, the father and son represent a dangerous new type of Qaeda sympathizer -- affluent Pakistanis with long histories of shuttling in and out of the United States.
The nationalists noted that there had been a surge of nationalism in Puerto Rico, more tolerance of independence sympathizers and new-found unity among the three major political parties for asserting Puerto Rican rights in the case of the United States Navy's presence in Vieques, a nearby island the Navy uses for target practice.
Egypt isn't likely to descend to that level of violence, but the coup will surely be a boon to Al Qaeda's sympathizers, and create new ones.
