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...said the protesters carried black banners and Palestinian flags, which Israel has outlawed, and chanted: "With our spirit and our blood, we will avenge Abu Jihad!"--Wazir's nom de guerre, which means Father of the Holy...
...Lebanon, a pro-Iranian group threatened to kill kidnapped American and French hostages if any attempt was made to storm the plane. A statement from the Islamic Jihad terrorist group was delivered to the Reuters news agency in West Beirut, along with photographs of journalists Terry A. Anderson, an American, and Jean-Paul Kauffmann of France...
Hours after the clash, Jewish settlers raided the nearby Arab village of Hawwara, smashing car windshields, beating villagers and breaking into homes, said Jihad Howari, the Israeli-appointed head of the village council...
Increasingly, they seem to be turning to Islamic fundamentalism. More than anywhere else in the Palestinian world, Gaza is subscribing to the fanatical message of zealots like Sheik Abdul al-Aziz Odeh, allegedly the guiding light behind a local group called Islamic Jihad, and Sheik Ahmad Yasin, the spiritual leader of the Islamic movement in Gaza since 1977. "We have to start changing things by hearts," warns Yasin, 51, who has been paralyzed from the neck down since age 15. "Then by words and then the role of the hand comes." At least two of four Gazans killed...
...have arrested more than 2,000 fundamentalists, who are suspected of being part of a plot by Iran to spread its revolution. Bourguiba cut off relations with Tehran last March after six Tunisians were arrested in Paris and charged with being part of an Iranian-run terrorist organization. Islamic Jihad, the pro-Iran terror group that is based in Beirut, claimed responsibility for the August hotel bombings in Tunisia. After last week's verdicts, Islamic Jihad declared that it would kill top Tunisian officials if any of the death sentences were carried out. The group indicated its bona fides...