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Islamic Jihad

Islamic Jihad Shiite organization derived from the Amal movement acts through a number of subsidiary groups engaged in terrorism Hizballah and the Islamic Amal are its most successful branches. [Pg.23]

Bombing of U.S. Marine Barracks, Beirut — On April 18, 1983, a vehicle driven by a member of the Islamic Jihad crashed into the outer wall of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 67 people, 17 of whom comprised the majority of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) staff in Lebanon. In retaliation, the U.S. Navy bombarded terrorist positions designed to aid the Lebanese army in Beirut. In response, on October 23,1983, the Islamic Jihad fitted two trucks with 12,000 pounds of explosives and sent them on a suicide mission. The trucks passed the lax security at the U.S. Marine guardhouse and crashed into a wall of a four-story concrete barrack. All 241 marines and 58 French soldiers inside were killed in the explosion. [Pg.29]

Islamic Jihad Bombings in Turkey — Two car bombings occurred in Turkey on October 28, 1991 and killed one Air Force sergeant and severely injured an Egyptian diplomat. The Turkish Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. [Pg.30]

Explosive-laden automobiles have become popular terror weapons over the last few years, especially in the Middle East. The IRA was among the first to make extensive use of car bombs in Northern Ireland, setting them off in shopping centers or near police stations to spread terror. Recently the Islamic Jihad has taken car bombs one step further with the introduction of suicide car bombs. They burst onto the scene in 1983 with the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut (also... [Pg.37]

The competition for food is arguably the predominant cause of strife on this planet. Such a system mandates the production of psychic energy in the form of stress, pain, fear and aggression. If the physical body can only survive by eating physical food, the subtle bodies conceivably also require nourishment consisting of the same stuff they are made of, i.e., thoughts, emotions, drives, etc. This is presumably the "food" that we produce for the Archons. What may be a belief in the Christian Trinity or Islamic Jihad to humans, may be the equivalent of a T-bone steak to entities of the imaginal realm who depend upon that belief for their... [Pg.98]

A radical Shi ite organisation, HezboUah ( The Party of God ) was founded in 1978 and is dedicated to the establishment of a fundamentalist state in the Lebanon and elsewhere. Hezbollah tend to target US and Israeli targets. Past atrocities have included the attack on the US Embassy in Beirut and on a US Marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983. Hezbollah also operates under the name Islamic Jihad and maintains a terrorist wing, the External Security Organisation (ESO). [Pg.11]

Basque Homeland and Liberty (Euskadi ta Askatasuna) (ETA) Egyptian Islamic Jihad EIJ ... [Pg.16]

Mujaheddin e Khalq (MeKf Palestinian Islamic Jihad - Shoqaqi (PIJ ... [Pg.17]

This book is part of the Encyclopedia Jihad, collected and distributed by the rqanisation FDR THE PREPARATION OF MujAHiDEEN, with the help of Other Islamic jihad organizations and individuals. The aim is to further the military/political/etc. preparations, skills and knowledge of Mujahideen the world over. [Pg.79]


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