Word: jihad
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...dead was Nazih Rashed, 35, whose leg was severed and who died later in a nearby hospital. He had apparently achieved martyrdom, since the extremist Islamic Jihad, or Holy War, issued a statement claiming responsibility for the bombing and saying he was one of the members who carried it out. Police had Rashed on top of their most-wanted list, and he was already on trial in absentia, charged with murder and membership in an illegal group responsible for the 1981 assassination of President Anwar Sadat. Rashed, noted police, had been trained in the use of explosives when he fought...
Only three days before the bombers struck, a military court began trying 53 members of Islamic Jihad and its offshoots on charges ranging from attempted murder to conspiracy against the government. It was only the first of several trials that will haul 756 accused members before the military tribunals Mubarak set up when he felt civilian court procedures were dragging on too long and inconclusively. As a case in point, a regular court in Cairo earlier this month acquitted 24 defendants charged with assassinating parliamentary Speaker Rifaat el-Mahgoub almost three years ago. The court's chief judge criticized...
Four people were killed and at least 15 injured in an attempt to assassinate Egypt's Interior Minister, Hassan al-Alfi, who has led a crackdown on Islamic militants. Al-Alfi's car was rocked by a bomb not far from Cairo's busy Tahrir Square. Islamic Jihad, the group that killed President Anwar Sadat in 1981, took responsibility. Muslim fundamentalists have waged a violent two-year campaign to replace the Western-leaning government of President Hosni Mubarak with an Islamic regime...
Throughout the 1980s, Hizballah had a dark reputation; it was notorious for seizing Western hostages, setting off car bombs and nurturing groups like Islamic Jihad, which blew up the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut. But it sought Arab approval by deploying its thousands of fighters to harass Israeli troops occupying southern Lebanon...
Though these jihad-warriors play for the Sudan, the minor leagues of Islamic fundamentalist state-sponsored terrorism (considering the country's recent descent into barbarism, perhaps the metaphor of an expansion team rings truer), they still can cause a lot of trouble, as evidenced by the Trade Center bombing...