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Bookmark or Share- Egyptian Islamic Jihad | Origins, Terrorist Attacks & Al-Qaeda | BritannicaEgyptian Islamic Jihad, Egyptian extremist organization that coalesced out of a variety of smaller militant groups in the late 1970s. The group urged violence for the purpose of creating an Islamic state, and its members were responsible for the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
- Ayman al-Zawahiri - WikipediaHe became a leading figure in the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, an Egyptian Islamist organization, and eventually attained the rank of emir. He was imprisoned from 1981 to 1984 for his role in the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
- Egyptian Islamic Jihad - Council on Foreign RelationsEgyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), a militant Islamist group which emerged in the 1970s, changed its focus in 2001. Originally bent on installing a religious government in Egypt, the group joined...
- The Man Behind Bin Laden - The New YorkerIn June of 2001, two terrorist organizations, Al Qaeda and Egyptian Islamic Jihad, formally merged into one. The name of the new entity—Qaeda al-Jihad—reflects the long and interdependent...
- Egyptian Islamic Jihad - WikipediaThe Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ, Arabic: الجهاد الإسلامي المصري), formerly called simply Islamic Jihad (Arabic: الجهاد الإسلامي) and the Liberation Army for Holy Sites, [3] originally referred to as al-Jihad, and then the Jihad Group, or the Jihad Organization, [4] was an Egyptian Islamist group active since ...
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