Word: jihad
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Four days after the Beit Lid bombing, Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shkaki spoke with Time correspondent Lara Marlowe in Damascus, giving a chilling picture of how he says the attack was planned. Though he disclaimed direct responsibility, he was obviously pleased, grinning and laughing throughout the interview. Born in the Gaza Strip, Shkaki, 44, joined the Muslim Brotherhood, a conservative Islamist group, while studying medicine in Egypt in the '70s. He returned to the Gaza Strip in 1981 and founded Islamic Jihad. Shkaki's movement set itself apart from other groups with similar names by staging suicide attacks in Israel...
...groups and 18 individuals believed to be associated with terrorist organizations. White House officials also plan to launch a broader initiative against terrorists and drug smugglers, including tougher checks on suspected terrorists at U.S. entry points. Clinton's order targets a laundry list of the infamous. Among them: Islamic Jihad, thought responsible for Sunday's killing of 19 Israelis; Hizbollah, suspected in the 1983 suicide bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut; Abu Nidal; Hamas; Black September; the Fatah Revolutionary Council; the Palestine Liberation Front; and the outlawed Jewish extremist group Kach. In Jerusalem, a Kach spokesman today warned...
...Hezbollah and Hamas have arisen to rain terror in Israel, so have splinter groups of the anti-abortion movement formed to perpetrate violence in our own country. With pamphlets entitled "The Army of God" circulating among these people, their rhetoric is only a translation of what Islamic Jihad, another violent fundamentalist group, might publish...
Unlike Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad, no foreign government is actively supporting the violent anti-abortion groups. In contrast to other nations' cases, this fundamentalism was not the response of a persecuted minority...
...much for the notion of Palestinian unity. Bloody Friday took care of that the day two weeks ago when the security forces of Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority opened fire on Hamas supporters and the Islamic Jihad rioting outside the Palestine Mosque in Gaza City and provoked street battles that killed 13 people and left 200 wounded. A few days later, in a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, Arafat loyalists were fighting other opponents of the peace deal with Israel, this time dissidents within Fatah. While infighting in Lebanon is an old phenomenon, in the Gaza Strip...