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...mestizaje de la herencia espa?ola, ind?gena y africana. Un n?mero creciente, especialmente en California prefiere el t?rmino ?latino?. Pero en un sondeo realizado por Time de adultos hispanos, el 42% dijo que prefer?an ser llamados hispanos, s?lo el 17% dijo latino y el 34% no mostr? preferencia. Tal gama de opiniones y prioridades se refleja en la lista de Time de los 25 hispanos m?s influyentes en Estados Unidos, que incluye a celebridades como Jennifer L?pez y el alcalde de Los ?ngeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, y a otros menos conocidos como el activista sindical Pablo Alvarado y la conservadora de arte...
...second set of suspects would be Egyptian Islamist groups such as Islamic Jihad and the Gama'a Islamiya. Both groups broke away from the more moderate Muslim Brotherhood to wage a terror war against Mubarak and his predecessor, President Anwar Sadat. For much of the 1990s, they waged a terror campaign at home, culminating in the massacre of 57 tourists at Luxor in 1997 by the Gama'a. But a harsh crackdown saw much of its leadership imprisoned, and from their prison cells they have renounced violence and declared an official cease-fire. The Islamic Jihad group, headed by Ayman...
...assassination of President Anwar Sadat. A combination of harsh repression and a conscious decision to "export" the problem by shipping off radical Islamists by the planeload to Afghanistan to wage jihad against the Soviets blunted much of Islamic Jihad's impact inside Egypt, although both Jihad and the Gama'a took up a more bloody domestic campaign in the 1990s was eventually crushed by Mubarak's secret police, leaving the radicals mostly either in prison or dispersed. But the Egyptians who honed their skills in Afghanistan made their mark elsewhere, whether in attacking Egyptian diplomats and leaders in Pakistan...
...1990s, radical fighters sought to repeat the Afghan victory by making jihad in Bosnia, Egypt and Algeria. As the host states took repressive measures to smash them, however, these militant groups saw their support from the masses decay. By 1997 a number of exiled leaders of Egypt's al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, or Islamic Group--responsible for the assassination of foreign tourists, native Egyptian Christians known as Copts, police officers and politicians--had come to recognize violence against tourists as a dead end and publicly renounced the practice. The group has not conducted an attack inside Egypt since...
According to a London representative of Egyptian Refaei Ahmed Taha, head of the Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya group responsible for the 1997 terrorist attacks in Luxor, Egypt, the leaders of al-Qaeda last spring heatedly debated whether to begin using biological and chemical weapons. Taha, his associate confides, opposed such deployment, arguing that these uncontrollable weapons would immediately mobilize international opinion against Islamist militants. That, he maintained, would transform their reputation from defenders of fundamentalist Islam and the Arab cause--an image al-Qaeda has cultivated by championing martyred children in Palestine and Iraq--to executioners and criminals against...