Word: jihadism
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...least seven armed groups of the Fatah Hawks, allies of PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, have formed in the Gaza Strip as strike forces against the Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants threatening to intensify attacks on Arafat's budding Palestinian government. Their threat comes in response to the shootingdeaths of 14 Islamic protestersby PLO police in Gaza City Friday. (Today, gunmen in a Gaza City orange grove shot and killed a Palestinian secret police captain, the first time an officer had been ambushed.)Arafat, in fact, interspersed dozens of masked Fatah Hawks at a rally of 10,000 supporters yesterday...
Israeli authorities had also made public a threat to liquidate the perpetrators of Islamic violence. Thus when Hani Abed, a leader of the militant Islamic Jihad, was blown apart by a car bomb in the Gaza Strip two weeks ago, Palestinian fingers pointed to Israel. Many Gazans also blamed Arafat, since the assassination occurred under his watch. At Abed's funeral, the crowd turned on Arafat, called him "collaborator," tugged off his kaffiyeh and forced him out the back door of the mosque...
Sheik Abdullah Shami, spiritual leader of the Islamic Jihad, apologized to Arafat and warned his followers that "the Palestinian street" should not "drown in side battles." Earlier, however, he issued a provocative message, pronouncing that in the future the organization's "guns will not know any difference between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian police." The militants had previously avoided such talk out of fear of igniting a civil...
When the terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad bombed Israelis in recent weeks, U.S. officials vowed to clamp down on their fundraising apparatus in -- of all places -- the United States. "Jihad in America," the first look at the groups' U.S. activities, airs Monday from 9-10 p.m. EST on many PBS stations, despite protests and intense pressure from U.S. Muslim groups to yank it. The documentary begins with the World Trade Center bombing and winds through a 38 city support network. PBS, rattled by Muslim accusations that it's an unfair attack on the 6-million-member minority...
...Israeli collaborator and pushed him out the back door of a Gaza City mosque into a downpour as he tried to join a funeral service. Shouting "Get out of here, Arafat, get out!," the angry crowd forced him to leave the ceremony for Hani Abed, an Islamic Jihad activist who was killed in a car bombing that many Gazans blame on Israel...