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	Palestinian Islamic Jihad
		PIJ agents were arrested in Egypt in September 1991 while attempting to enter the country to conduct terrorism.
		PIJ and Hamas (The Islamic Resistance Movement), a separate Palestinian terrorist organization, were regarded as rivals in the Gaza Strip until after the foundation of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in 1994 when Hamas adopted the strategy suicide terrorist bombings.
		When PIJ leader Shaqaqi was killed in October 1995 in Malta, allegedly by Israeli agents, the PIJ position among Palestinian terrorist organizations dipped because his successor, Ramadan Abdallah Muhammad Shalah, who lived in the United States for several years, lacked Shaqaqi's charisma and intellectual and organizational skills.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Terrorism/PIJ.html (704 words)

	Terrorism - In the Spotlight: Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
		Nevertheless, the PIJ invokes the ideology of jihad (holy struggle) in its violent efforts to liberate Palestine "from the river to the sea" and eradicate the Israeli state.
		The PIJ took its inspiration from the Jihad movement in Egypt, which sought to replace the secular government in Cairo with an Islamic alternative.
		The PIJ opposes moderate secular Arab regimes, which are seen as corrupt and contaminated by Western secular values.
	www.cdi.org /terrorism/pij.cfm (819 words)

	The U.S. Indictment of Palestinian Islamic Jihad Militants:
		PIJ was established in 1981 with an ideology that blended Palestinian nationalist ideas, themes drawn from the beliefs of the Muslim Brethren, and the teachings of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Shi’i leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran (this despite the fact that PIJ was a Sunni movement).
		For example, the indictment explains that PIJ infighting prior to Shiqaqi’s death was resolved by the 1994 Beirut Agreement, which reaffirmed Iran’s role as the organization’s “strategic partner.” At the time, the group was in financial straits and under pressure from Iran to clean up its spending practices.
		PIJ has even attempted to increase the scope of such attacks; in September 2002, Israeli security forces intercepted a truck containing a half-ton bomb prepared by PIJ and intended for the city of Haifa.
	www.ict.org.il /articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=467 (970 words)

	The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The PIJ study found in the possession of the PA Internal Security Forces in Bethlehem notes that the organization participated in creating the psychological atmosphere which led to the outbreak of the first intifada, which began in December, 1987, and that its members were among the first to take part in it.
		During the interrogations of arrested PIJ members, it was learned that Muhammad Sidr was in constant communication with PIJ headquarters in Damascus and that before his death he was involved with the planning of bombing and suicide bombing attacks against Israel, including the recruiting, arming and training of suicide squads.
		PIJ headquarters is in constant contact with terrorist operatives in the PA-administered territories, a fact attested to by arrested PIJ members interrogated by Israeli security forces.
	www.intelligence.org.il /eng/sib/pij_11_03/pij.htm (4556 words)

	JS-2426: Treasury Designates Charity Funneling Money to Palestinian Islamic Jihad --Action Marks 400th Designation ...
		For example, details of early 2004 financial transfers from PIJ entities outside the Palestinian territories to PIJ members and supporters in the West Bank included a payment of $900 to benefit the family of a deceased PIJ operative, who died conducting a suicide attack.
		PIJ funds for the Elehssan Society primarily came from outside the West Bank and Gaza.
		In 2003, a PIJ leader, also identified as a senior official for Elehssan, reportedly said that PIJ summer camps emphasize, "culture, Islam and fun, with a marginal political dimension." Yet according to another source, the aim of at least one PIJ-run summer camp is reportedly the recruitment of suicide bombers.
	www.treas.gov /press/releases/js2426.htm (895 words)

	Internet Haganah::Haganah b' Internet
		The PIJ study found in the possession of the PA Internal Security Forces in Bethlehem notes that the organization participated in creating the atmosphere which led to the outbreak of the first intifada, which began in December 1987, and that its members were among the first to take part in it.
		The PIJ's study notes that on October 26, 1995, Dr. Fat'hi Shkaki, then the leader of the organization, was killed in Malta by "Mossad agents" while he was on his way from Libya to his permanent residence in Damascus.
		During the interview he claimed PIJ responsibility for the suicide bombing attack carried out by Rami Jamil Ghanem of the PIJ Jerusalem Squads [the PIJ's operational wing] at the London Café in Netanya, March 30, 2003, in which 30 Israelis were injured.
	haganah.org.il /harchives/003975.html (3648 words)

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		PIJ's main base is in Damascus, which, along with Iran, gives the group its financial backing.
		In 1993, a PIJ member successfully executed an attack on American soil: Ramzi Yousef, along with a cell of terrorists, drove a truck full of explosives into a parking garage of the World Trade Center and detonated it.
		PIJ expressed its appreciation for Saddam by staging a suicide attack in Israel.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /groupProfile.asp?grpid=6448 (848 words)

	Military.com Resources
		The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is a militant Palestinian group dedicated to the destruction of the state of Israel.
		The PIJ consists of a number of loosely affiliated cells with an unknown number of members.
		The most prominent of the factions operating under the PIJ banner is the Fathi Shikaki faction founded by three Palestinians: Fathi Shikaki, Abdul Aziz Odeh and Bashir Moussa.
	www.military.com /Resources/ResourceFileView?file=PIJ-Organization.htm (229 words)

	Israel Defense Forces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Until the IDF operation, the PIJ infrastructure in Jenin was the strongest in the PA's territories, due mostly to massive financial injections from the PIJ leadership in Syria.
		The PIJ suffered a severe setback with the death of its Jenin military leader, Mahmud Tu'albe (responsible for a string of terrorist attacks inside Israel), and the arrest of senior operational figures, including Ali Safuri and Thabet Mardawi (both responsible for a large number of suicide and murder attacks).
		Additional cases of inter-organizational cooperation (Fatah and PIJ) in perpetration of terrorist attacks inside Israel which originated in the Jenin area are documented in Appendices B and C. Cooperation between Fatah and local PA intelligence apparatuses and the PIJ and Hamas.
	www.cat2002.org /facts/tab12.html (1894 words)

	#099: 02-20-03 MEMBERS OF THE PALESTINIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD ARRESTED, CHARGED WITH RACKETEERING AND CONSPIRACY TO PROVIDE ...
		A written PIJ "manifesto" uncovered during the course of the investigation outlines the goals and command structure of the group.
		The manifesto stated that the PIJ was led by a Secretary General and a Shura Council, a central advisory committee.
		The indictment alleges that the PIJ constitutes a RICO enterprise, which has engaged in multiple acts of murder and extortion in Israel and the Occupied Territories (Gaza Strip and West Bank) as part of a stated terrorist campaign to destroy Israel.
	www.usdoj.gov /opa/pr/2003/February/03_crm_099.htm (1521 words)

	Terrorism: Q & A \| Hamas, Islamic Jihad 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		PIJ was founded in the late 1970s by a group of radical Palestinian activists living in Egypt.
		Inspired by Iran’s Shiite Islamic revolution, PIJ blends Palestinian nationalism, Sunni Islamic fundamentalism, and Shiite revolutionary thought into an ideological agenda that stresses Islamic unity cannot be achieved until Israel is defeated and all of Palestine liberated.
		PIJ was further weakened i n February 2003, when the U.S. Justice Department indicted Shallah—as well as other alleged Islamic Jihad leaders, including a Florida college professor—for murder and conspiracy to fund a terrorist organization.
	www.terrorismanswers.com /groups/hamas3.html (613 words)

	MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The PIJ is one faction within a loosely organized, highly secretive group of Islamic Jihad movements that span the Middle East.
		Inspired by the Shi'a Islamic revolution in Iran, the PIJ blended Palestinian nationalism, Sunni Islamic fundamentalism, and Shi'a revolutionary thought into its ideological agenda which stressed that Islamic unity could not be achieved until Israel was utterly annihilated and all of Palestine liberated.
		The PIJ initially operated out of Egypt, but after the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat by Egyptian radicals, the PIJ leadership was exiled to the Gaza Strip where it continued to engage in anti-Israel activities.
	www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=82 (804 words)

	Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
		In the mid-1970s, the PIJ was little more than an amorphous collection of factions.
		Shalah returned to lead the PIJ from Damascus where the group is now headquartered.
		The PIJ and Hamas are thought to have been competitors during their formative years in the 1980s.
	cdi.org /program/document.cfm?DocumentID=1176&StartRow=1&... (809 words)

	Terror Expert Links Al-Arian and Alleged Co-Conspirators to PIJ - from TBO.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Also named by Levitt as founders of the PIJ were Bashir Musa Mohammed Nafi, who worked as a researcher at Al-Arian's think tank until he was deported in 1996, and Abd Al Aziz Awda, known as the spiritual leader of the movement who has spoken at conferences organized by Al-Arian.
		Nafi, a professor at Muslim College in Oxfordshire, England, and Awda, who is believed to have left the PIJ in the late 1990s, are also named in the indictment but have not been arrested.
		Moffitt also prompted Levitt to note that many of the terror attacks the defendants are accused of supporting occurred before the PIJ was designated a terrorist organization by the Treasury Department in 1995 and by the State Department in 1997.
	ap.tbo.com /ap/florida/MGBL1LMQ8AE.html (593 words)

	Archives: Story
		The government's key expert witness, Matthew Levitt, senior fellow for terrorism studies at the Washington Institute of Near East Studies, testified Wednesday that PIJ, founded in 1981, is one of the most violent of the Palestinian Islamic terrorist organizations and engages in shooting attacks and suicide bombings.
		Both the U.S. Treasury Department and the State Department have listed PIJ as a "designated terrorism organization." This means the government has frozen the group's assets and any financial dealings with PIJ are illegal.
		PIJ is "bent on the destruction of Israel and opposes any recognition of Israel and any peace deal relinquishing an inch, a mote of land," Levitt testified.
	www.clevelandjewishnews.com /articles/2004/06/17/news/local/badamrab0618.txt (954 words)

	Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The PIJ originated among militant Palestinian fundamentalists in the Gaza Strip during the 1970s.
		The PIJ is committed to the creation of an Islamic Palestinian state and the destruction of Israel through holy war.
		The PIJ demonstrated its terrorist credentials when it attacked a tour bus in Egypt in February 1990 and killed 11 people, including nine Israelis.
	www.milnet.com /tgp/data/pij.htm (225 words)

	FBI Arrests Florida Prof, 3 Other Arabs on Terror Charges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		PIJ, formed in the Gaza Strip during the 1970s, is dedicated to the violent destruction of Israel and the formation of a Palestinian state, the report says.
		Al Arian, 45, a native of Kuwait, lives in Temple Terrace, Fla. He is accused of being the leader of PIJ in the United States, and being secretary of the "Shura Council," the worldwide governing body of the organization.
		He was allegedly a member of PIJ in Tampa, and was the group's treasurer and a member of the council.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2003/2/20/145946.shtml (778 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The PIJ split from the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood, which it viewed as overly moderate.
		Group members were expelled by Egypt to the Gaza Strip in the early 1980s in light of their ties to the assassins of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981.
		The PIJ is dedicated to the destruction of Israel and creation of an Islamic Palestinian state in its place.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3020637,00.html (139 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Islamist Terrorism - America's Internet by Rachel Ehrenfeld
		Level3 was providing the PIJ with network access while a wholesale client of Level3 actually managed the "client relationship" with the terrorist organization.
		Ultimately Level3 acknowledged that the PIJ site was on their network, contacted their client, and as a result the site was decommissioned.
		On August 31st, the PIJ issued a statement on Palestineway.com claiming that “Zionist elements shut down three PIJ website in an effort to silence the voice of the Palestinian fighter.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14948 (1029 words)

	MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		PIJ has thus violently opposed the peace process and has actively used suicide bombings against Israeli targets to derail the process.
		The PIJ's prominence has fallen since 1995 when Fathi Shaqaqi was gunned down in Malta, purportedly by Israeli Mossad agents.
		The PIJ has announced that it does not intend to participate in the Palestinian legislative elections scheduled for July 2005.
	www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=4430 (440 words)

	Court told PIJ pay sent to 4 at think tank [on Sami al-Arian case] - Campus Watch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		References to salaries paid by PIJ in the United States came to light during a telephone exchange between the former USF professor and Abd Al Aziz Awda, a PIJ religious leader, in Damascus, Syria, that was captured by wiretap.
		Awda: The other day, brother Fathi (Shikaki, the PIJ leader) came and sat with me to show me how much the requirements are for the fields (inaudible).
		In the conversations, Al-Arian repeatedly suggests ways to reorganize PIJ finances, and is asked by those involved in arguments to petition on their behalf.
	www.campus-watch.org /article/id/2134 (775 words)

	Prosecutor: Al-Arian Provided Communications For PIJ - from TBO.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Those four, and five others who are overseas, are accused of helping organize and finance the PIJ, a terrorist organization which has claimed responsibility for numerous suicide attacks in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank.
		The attorneys argued that the prosecution must prove with more than hearsay evidence that the defendants were part of the conspiracy and that the PIJ was actually responsible for the attacks.
		Another PIJ publication Furr described was ``Islamic Vanguard.'' That publication, he said, had a listed post office box that belonged to Al- Najjar, and another overseas defendant, Muhammed Tasir Al-Khatib, when they were in college with Al-Arian in North Carolina in the early 1980s.
	news.tbo.com /news/MGBZWBYJ79E.html (774 words)

	Valley News Web Story Layout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The 120-page indictment relies heavily on dozens of telephone calls and faxes between al-Arian and other alleged PIJ officials that were intercepted in investigations secretly approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court, officials said.
		The indictment contended that al-Arian has been one of the leading officials of PIJ since the 1980s, and that in fact he has served as secretary of its “Shura Council” or top governing body.
		U.S. officials have said for years that Iran is PIJ's main financier, and the indictment describes how Iranian officials were upset by PIJ operatives’ apparent failure to account for much of the money.
	www.vnews.com /02212003/943264.htm (993 words)

	Palestinian Islamic Jihad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Recently information was received according to which PIJ terrorist-operatives from the central West Bank (Bethlehem region), instructed by the PIJ infrastructure in Tulkarm and Jenin headed by Luai Sa’adi, were planning to carry out a suicide bombing attack in Jerusalem.
		The arrests exposed the existence of a large-scale PIJ infrastructure based in the Tulkarm-Jenin region with branches in Ramallah and Bethlehem.
		The arrests show that the PIJ, particularly the group which planned and carried out the suicide bombing attack at the Stage nightclub in Tel Aviv, is undaunted in its efforts to continue carrying out deadly suicide bombing attacks, despite the existence of a lull and its claims that it is committed to the lull.
	www.intelligence.org.il /eng/c_t/june_ae.htm (1011 words)

	U.S. Treasury - Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI)
		The PIJ has been named a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) by the U.S. Government and is also named on the European Union’s list of terrorist entities.
		PIJ maintained operational activity in 2004, claiming numerous attacks against Israeli interests.
		Notably, in 2005 PIJ funds were provided to Elehssan Bethleham and in 2004, information shows that PIJ provided funds to Elehssan in Gaza and Lebanon.
	www.ustreas.gov /offices/enforcement/key-issues/protecting/charities_execorder_13224-e.shtml (1695 words)

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