Word: islamiyya
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...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 1998. Likewise...
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...
EGYPT Revolutionary groups like Islamic Jihad and al-Gama al-Islamiyya play a major role in al-Queda...
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