Word: jihadism
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...minute videotape showing Boston native Alann Steen, 47, was delivered to a Western news agency in the name of Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine, which kidnapped Steen and three others from the campus of Beirut University College on January...
...their notoriety, the captors remain a bewildering collection of groups that Western intelligence agencies know little about. All appear to be allied with the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hizballah, or Party of God, which seems to be largely controlled by Iran. The terrorist groups -- Islamic Jihad, Revolutionary Justice Organization and the Organization of the Oppressed on Earth -- may compete with one another and goad one another on. Or, as Secretary of State George Shultz observed last week, "It is our basic information that, with whatever names may emerge, they are to a substantial degree linked together. We also observe some...
Waite vanished on Tuesday into secret enclaves controlled by the Shi'ite terrorist group known as Islamic Jihad, or Holy War. Islamic Jihad is thought to be holding U.S. Hostages Thomas Sutherland, acting dean of agriculture at American University, and Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press. But when Waite, the towering (6 ft. 7 in.) envoy of Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie, failed to reemerge by early this week after five days of talks, fears grew that he might have become a kidnap victim himself...
Even as the crisis escalated, Anglican Emissary Waite decided to prolong his latest mission to the Lebanese capital. Just before his scheduled departure from Beirut early in the week, Waite announced that he had re- established contact with the Islamic Jihad and promptly drove off into West Beirut with his usual bodyguard of Druze militiamen. As time passed and Waite did not reappear, both Anglican officials in England and Waite's Druze protectors repeatedly assured the press that he was in no danger. Said a Druze spokesman late Friday: "He is fine, and he is still negotiating with the hostage...
...hijacking was almost certainly related to the 6 1/2-year-old war between Iraq and Iran. In Tehran, the government of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini denied involvement and said it condemned "any moves that may threaten the lives of innocent passengers." But in Lebanon, several terrorist groups, including the pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for the hijacking. One survivor of the crash reported that the terrorists spoke with southern Lebanese accents, implying that they were indeed Shi'ite fundamentalists loyal to Khomeini...