Word: shami
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...