Word: jihadism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...live in settlements speckled throughout the West Bank--the looming danger is from militants who want to emulate their comrades in Gaza and launch rocket attacks. The IDF says it has uncovered clandestine explosives factories, which are said to prove that Hamas and other militant groups, such as Islamic Jihad and al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, are trying to learn rocket technology...
...were harbingers of this day. In January 2002, when Karine-A, a ship loaded with 50 tons of bullets, missiles and mines, was caught in the Red Sea, substantiating the long-suspected link between the Shiite Islamic Republic of Iran and Sunni terror groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the Palestinian Authority. The lesson is now clear: Israel is no longer merely dealing with a localized Palestinian threat, seeking to plant bombs in the heart of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Israel is immersed in a larger battle against fundamentalist Islam, a movement that has always postured itself against...
...Southern front, the citizens of Sderot and the Western Negev have had to endure the continuous Qassam missile raids for the last seven years. The Qassams, coming from the heart of the Gaza Strip, have forced the Israeli government to be brutal again, and target the leaders of Islamic Jihad and Hamas in the Strip...
...interviewed only discuss the post-9/11 political climate—but doesn’t lack a narrative backbone. The filmmakers gracefully walk a fine line between exploring the abstract elements of secrecy and the real consequences of disclosing secrets. As one interviewee tells us, after the Islamic Jihad Organization (IJO) bombed the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in 1983, details of the National Security Agency’s efforts to track the IJO were leaked to the press and the group went underground. Six months later, the barracks of the international peacekeepers stationed in Beirut were bombed, killing over...
...same source said that on Thursday night, Israeli police received a credible tip that a Palestinian suicide bomber, possibly from Islamic Jihad, was trying to enter Jerusalem, and were frantically searching for him, mounting checkpoints on the roads in from Bethlehem. But police are not sure if the would-be suicide bomber was connected to the seminary rampage...