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	Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The emblem of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad shows a map of the land they claim as Palestine (roughly, present-day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) superimposed on the images of the Dome of the Rock, two fists and two rifles.
		The Palestinian Islamic Jihad was formed in the Gaza Strip during the 1970s by Fathi Shaqaqi as a branch of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
		Islamic Jihad is alleged to have used women and teens as suicide bombers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Palestinian_Islamic_Jihad (828 words)

	Egyptian Islamic Jihad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), also called the Islamic Jihad and the Jihad Group, is an Egyptian Islamic group active since the late 1970s with origins in the Muslim Brotherhood.
		The original Jihad was responsible for the attempted assassinations of Interior Minister Hassan al-Alfi in August 1993 and Prime Minister Atef Sedky in November 1993.
		Egyptian Jihad and rival armed group launched a wave of violence against Egypt's secular government in 1992, a campaign they only abandoned at the end of the decade.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Egyptian_Islamic_Jihad (459 words)

	Islamic Jihad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Islamic Jihad (Arabic: حركة الجهاد الإسلامي‎, Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami) is an Islamic group based in the Syrian capital, Damascus.
		In the Western world, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad is the organization usually meant by the term "Islamic Jihad", due to the widespread media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
		Islamic Jihad is also a name used by various other Islamist groups, including the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and the Yemeni Islamic Jihad.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Islamic_Jihad (254 words)

	Islamic Jihad definition - Zionism and Israel -Encyclopedia / Dictionary/Lexicon of Zionism/Israel/
		Islamic Jihad (Al-Jihad al-Islami) is thought to have emerged as a nationalist splinter from the Muslim Brotherhood in 70s or 80s, arguing that the struggle against occupation had to precede spreading religious values in society.
		According to the Islamic Jihad, a proper reading of the Quran and an ‎understanding of history would lead to the conclusion that Palestine is the focus ‎of the religio-historical confrontation between the Muslims and their eternal ‎enemies, the Jews.
		Jihad is the only way to liberate Palestine, ‎since Muslim victory and the elimination of Israel are foreordained by God’s ‎words in the Quran.‎ Shiqaqi praised Ayatollah Khomeini for being the first Muslim leader to give ‎Palestine its proper place in his Islamic ideology.
	www.zionism-israel.com /dic/Islamic_Jihad.htm (2396 words)

	Islam - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		The Qur'an is the foremost source of Islamic jurisprudence; the second is the Sunnah (the practices of the Prophet, as narrated in reports of his life).
		Islamic holy days fall on fixed dates of the lunar calendar, which means that they occur in different seasons in different years in the Gregorian calendar.
		Islamic history begins in Arabia in the 7th century with the emergence of the prophet Muhammad.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/i/s/l/Islam.html (5346 words)

	Egyptian Islamic Jihad linked to bin Laden - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		Egyptian Islamic Jihad leader Ayman Zawahiri is a medical doctor who joined forces with Saudi millionaire and terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.
		Islamic Jihad formed in the 1970s as an offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brothers when the latter opted to work within Egypt's political system to avoid repression by then-President Gamal Abdul Nasser.
		Islamic Jihad masterminded the assassination of Nasser's successor, Anwar Sadat, during a military parade in 1981.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_3028.html (747 words)

	In the Spotlight: Al-Jihad (Egyptian Islamic Jihad)
		Egyptian security authorities began a ruthless crackdown on al-Jihad in the 1980s, imprisoning, torturing and executing its members.
		By the mid-1980s, inspired in part by the Afghani fighters’ resolve and motivated by an unfavorable political climate in Egypt, he seized upon the mountainous terrain of Afghanistan as a new base of operations.
		In August 1992, Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister Youssef Wali accused the two countries of smuggling arms to terrorist groups operating in Egypt with ties to al-Jihad.
	www.cdi.org /program/document.cfm?DocumentID=259 (988 words)

	BBC News \| In Depth \| War on Terror \| Investigation on Terror
		The EIJ is led by Ayman al-Zawahiri believed to be a close associate of Osama Bin Laden.
		The original Islamic Jihad was responsible for the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
		EIJ claimed responsibility for the attempted assassination of Egyptian Interior Minister Hassan al-Alfi in 1993.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/static/in_depth/world/2001/war_on_terror/investigation_on_terror/organisation_2.stm (305 words)

	Wikinfo \| Jihad
		Jihad is sometimes referred to as "The sixth pillar of Islam" in honour of its religious status and in reference to the Five Pillars of Islam.
		Islamic parties in democracies, for instance, accept the lawful legal authority of the state, and rules of war that define noncombatant status.
		For militant groups within the Islamic cultural sphere, a person who commits suicide as a part of struggle against oppression is considered a shahid - holy martyr - and is held to have earned a place in heaven.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Jihad (839 words)

	Islam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the period of Islamic empire, apostasy was considered treason, and was accordingly treated as a capital offense; death penalties were carried out under the authority of the Caliph.
		Under the Islamic state, they were exempt from the draft, but were required to pay a tax known as jizyah, part of which went to charity and part to finance churches and synagogues.
		Islamic traditions have several sources: the Qur'an, the hadiths, and interpretations of both by scholars.
	islam.ask.dyndns.dk (5370 words)

	Islamic Jihad - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Islamic Jihad (Arabic: Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami) is a militant Islamist group based in the Syrian capital, Damascus.
		Islamic Jihad is also a name used by various other militant groups.
		There is also the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and the Yemeni Islamic Jihad.
	www.voyager.in /Islamic_Jihad (204 words)

	ISLAMIC JIHAD TRIAL PAPERS DETAIL AL QAIDA'S RUTHLESS TACTICS
		It is not clear what role Islamic Jihad or its leaders may have played in the Sept. 11 attacks on New York City and Washington.
		The scope of the Jihad network is illustrated by the countries where the 107 defendants in the 1999 trial were arrested - Albania, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt.
		Zayat, the lawyer, said that the defendants were "certainly" tortured by Egyptian intelligence agents before they confessed to being Jihad members and gave up the names of their contacts.
	www.papillonsartpalace.com /islamirc.htm (989 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Egyptian Attacks
		Two groups authorities have named — the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya — have been blamed for many of the attacks on civilians as well as the killings of several of the region's key figures.
		Members of Egyptian Islamic Jihad were blamed for the assassination of President Anwar Sadat on Oct. 6, 1981, a month after he cracked down on Muslim and Coptic organizations, throwing 1,600 people in jail.
		Egyptian police are said to be looking for several Pakistani men in connection with the attack.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/egypt_attacks (867 words)

	Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 127
		Sadat, who considered the Nasserites and the leftists as his principal enemies, overlooked the looming danger from the Islamic extremist movements that were advocating the violent overthrow of the regime and the establishment of a new regime founded on fundamental Islamic principles.
		The two have agreed that the Islamic Jihad should retain its identity as an essentially Egyptian organization while the Al-Qa'ida was to remain a multi-national organization and, in time, it became the melting pot of the "Afghan Arabs", or volunteers to the Mujahedeen ranks.
		It is spreading widely and is allying with the Jihad movements from Chechnya in the north to Somalia in the south and from Turkmenistan in the East to Morocco in the West.
	memri.org /bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=IA12703 (6647 words)

	CNN Programs - People in the News
		An Islamic fundamentalist, al-Zawahiri joined the outlawed Egyptian Islamic Jihad group as a teenager, being jailed twice for helping plot assassinations of two Egyptian leaders.
		Ali Mohammed, a fellow Egyptian and Islamic Jihad member living in the United States, testified al-Zawahiri actually visited the United States twice on fund-raising trips in the early 1990s, including to a mosque in Santa Clara, California.
		Some Egyptians traced al-Zawahiri's anger toward the United States to what many Afghan Arabs felt was the CIA's betrayal to support their cause after the Soviets left Afghanistan and the country slipped into tribal anarchy.
	www.cnn.com /CNN/Programs/people/shows/zawahiri/profile.html (1262 words)

	U.S. Got Warning on Egypt Islamic Group [Free Republic]
		American intelligence officials said yesterday that they received reports in late May that a militant Egyptian Islamic group was in the final stages of preparing a terror attack against American targets and that they passed on the warning to all American posts and foreign governments in the Middle East.
		The intelligence officials said that Al Qaeda and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad groups now operated out of Afghanistan and that given the closeness of their leaders, they were virtually one group.
		The Egyptian Islamic Jihad is widely considered one of the most vicious terrorist groups in the region.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a39f07e560bf5.htm (1157 words)

	SITE Institute: Background on Terrorist Groups - Al-Jihad (Egyptian Islamic Jihad, EIJ)
		Active since the 1970s, the EIJ’s primary goals traditionally have been to overthrow the Egyptian Government and replace it with an Islamic state and to attack US and Israeli interests in Egypt and abroad.
		The original Jihad was responsible for the assassination in 1981 of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
		Responsible for Egyptian Embassy bombing in Islamabad in 1995, and in 1998 an attack against US Embassy in Albania was thwarted.
	www.siteinstitute.org /bin/display_groupbackground.cgi?Category=Groups&ID=17 (257 words)

	USATODAY.com - Al-Zawahri thought to be ideological spark plug for al-Qaeda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The two Egyptians became Osama bin Laden's top lieutenants when their faction of Egyptian Islamic Jihad merged with his network in 1998.
		Egyptian Islamic Jihad was believed behind the assassination of President Anwar Sadat during a Cairo military parade in 1981.
		It was blamed in several assassination attempts on other senior Egyptian politicians in the 1990s, and claimed responsibility for the 1996 bombing of the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-03-18-profile_x.htm (652 words)

	Al Qaeda, Anthrax, and Ayman 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		That assassination was of great significance to Egyptian Jihad and produced the pamphlet by Faraj that justifies "fard 'ayn"/individual duty as the basis of jihadist doctrine." She explained that "AQ is rooted in Egypt and Salafism, not Saudi Arabia and Wahhabism.
		At one point in 1996, Egyptian Youssef told Hassoun he is "ready for trade immediately." This is the same code used by Ayman Zawahiri in his May 2001 letter to supporters in which he used "School" to refer to Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
		Egyptian officials claim he is a high-ranking member of the military wing of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
	mysite.verizon.net /vze43v8m/page4.html (19505 words)

	From Egyptian Islamic Jihad to Chechnya: A Portrait of Mahmoud Hinnawi
		From Egyptian Islamic Jihad to Chechnya: A Portrait of Mahmoud Hinnawi
		However, it is said that his status in the ranks of Egyptian Jihad was catastrophically undermined when information was leaked from his department.
		Lastly, it provides a fascinating study of a leading Egyptian Jihad figure who ultimately failed in his efforts to establish his leadership in another theater of conflict for the global jihad and wound up dying in a remote corner of the world.
	jamestown.org /terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369736 (1579 words)

	Footnote Comics : Queen & Country (Tara Chace)
		Sometimes known as the Egyptian Islamic Jihad (as it is in Queen & Country), al-Jihad has operated since the 1970s and has been designated a foreign terrorist organization by the United States' Department of State.
		This Islamic separatist group is primarily based in Egypt and its main goal is to overthrow the Egyptian government and to replace it with an Islamic state.
		Hizballah, aka the Islamic Jihad, is described in the appendix to the State Department's Patterns of Global Terrorism 2000 report, on-line here.
	www.footnotetv.com /fncqcindex.html (6303 words)

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		and Muhammad Atef, the latter a native Egyptian and a onetime member of the terrorist group Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
		Seeking to extend the Islamic jihad, or "holy war," beyond the borders of Afghanistan even after the March 1988 Soviet pledge to withdraw its forces, bin Laden created al Qaeda.
		Another key al Qaeda figure is the Jordanian radical Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who has directed a series of deadly terror attacks and videotaped beheadings in Iraq, where he currently heads al Qaeda’s resistance operations against the American military which overthrew the Saddam Hussein regime in 2003.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=6211 (1184 words)

	CNN.com - Bin Laden and partner appear in unity video - October 4, 2001
		The video depicts bin Laden, escorted by masked guards, in a hillside tent compound at an undisclosed location with Ayman al-Zawahiri, his No. 2 man and the head of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a radical Islamic militant group blamed for the 1981 assassination of President Anwar Sadat.
		Egyptian Islamic Jihad has worked with bin Laden's al Qaeda network since the early 1990s, and according to U.S. authorities it has been a major player in all of al Qaeda's terrorist operations.
		In Washington, the Bush administration has put pressure on the government of Qatar to restrain al-Jazeera for what the United States believes is unbalanced in its reporting and encourages anti-American sentiment in the Middle East.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/meast/10/04/inv.bin.laden.video/index.html (576 words)

	Jihad Group
		An Egyptian Islamic extremist group active since the late 1970s; appears to be divided into at least two separate factions: remnants of the original Jihad led by Abbud al-Zumar, currently imprisoned in Egypt, and a new faction calling itself Vanguards of Conquest (Talaa'al al-Fateh [Tala'i' al Fath] or the New Jihad Group).
		The goal of all Jihad factions is to overthrow the government of President Hosni Mubarak and replace it with an Islamic state.
		Unlike the Islamic Group, [al-Gama'at al-Islamiyya] --which mainly targets mid-and lower-level security personnel, Coptic Christians, and Western tourists -- the Jihad group appears to concentrate primarily on high-level, high-profile Egyptian Government officials, including Cabinet Ministers.
	www.milnet.com /tgp/data/jihad.htm (242 words)

	islamic jihad
		Islamic Glossary Home Jihad Other Commonly Used Spellings: JIHAAD It is an Arabic word the root of which is Jahada, which means to strive for a better way of life.
		Islamic Jihad is a much smaller, less organized group of Islamist radicals with closer ties to...
		Islamic Jihad may be one of the best known names associated with Palestinian militancy, but it has always been a relatively small...
	www.islamdigital.com /search/islamicsites/islamic-jihad.html (863 words)

	Al-Muhajabah's Islamic Blogs: Egyptian jihad?
		Gama'a Islamiya is closely affiliated with the group Al Jihad (also known as Islamic Jihad and Egyptian Jihad), which was responsible for the assassination of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat in 1981.
		As Hamalawy reports, Gama'a Islamiya declared a truce with the Egyptian government in 1997 (before the Luxor attacks, in fact) and in the last several years its leadership have publically renounced violence.
		Gama'a Islamiya and Al Jihad have roots in Egypt going back to the late 1960s and early 1970s and are a radical offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is probably Egypt's most senior Islamist group, dating all the way back to 1928.
	www.muhajabah.com /islamicblog/archives/veiled4allah/006548.php (1096 words)

	al-Jihad
		Primary goals are to overthrow the Egyptian Government and replace it with an Islamic state and attack US and Israeli interests in Egypt and abroad.
		Responsible for Egyptian Embassy bombing in Islamabad in 1995; in 1998, planned attack against US Embassy in Albania was thwarted.
		The Egyptian Government claims that both Iran and Bin Ladin support the Jihad.
	www.meta-religion.com /Extremism/Islamic_extremism/jihad/al-jihad.htm (228 words)

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