Jihad

Man Accused of Plotting Acts of "Violent Jihad" Against Civilians
An Illinois man was arrested by federal agents for planning to set off hand grenades in a shopping mall.

Borderland Where Al-qaida Has Sanctuary
Rugged, cloaked in secrecy and populated by deeply conservative tribesmen with a historical affinity for jihad, Waziristan is a wonderful hiding place - so good that US intelligence believes al-Qaida is using it to plot its next attack.

Ministers Consider Gaza Raid After Rocket Wounds 69 Soldiers
· Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for attack · Qassam missile hits new recruits asleep in tents.

Trio Linked to Jihadist Training Camps
The trio arrested in Germany allegedly attended training camps in Pakistan run by an obscure group called the Islamic Jihad Union, a little-known offshoot from an Uzbek Islamist grouping called the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) that fought alongside the Taliban during the US-led invasion in 2001.

The Changing Face of Jihad
The fundamentalists’ interpretation of jihad has led many non-Muslims to believe that Islam is a religion whose principle tenets involve revenge and retribution. This is far from the truth, however. The Koran sets clear boundaries on the use of violence.

US Forces Launch Major Assault on Diyala
The US military surge in Iraq moved into a higher gear today as 10,000 American troops launched a major new offensive against Sunni insurgents and al-Qaida jihadis in Diyala province, north-east of Baghdad.

Jihad Dvd Find Foiled Terror Plot, Says Fbi
A plot by alleged radical Islamists against a military base in the US was foiled when they took a DVD of them firing assault weapons to a shop in New Jersey for copying, the US authorities said yesterday.

Tensions Hit Peak Over Gaza Clashes
Three members of Islamic Jihad shot at the border.

Saudis Claim 80% Success in Re-educating Al-qaida Militants
Programme finds jobs and wives for former jihadists - Anti-extremist schemes in schools and mosques

'Their Business is Jihad'
Declan Walsh visits Islamabad's Red Mosque, a hotbed of Islamic militancy at the heart of Pakistan's capital.

Gunmen, Children, Brutality and Bombs - Iraq's Dirty War
The horrible reality of a brutal and unconventional war in Iraq's north - where jihadi fighters use human shields and force children to run weapons for them.

UK Tries to Identify British Fighters Injured in Somalia
The Home Office was yesterday checking its database for the names of seven alleged British passport holders who, according to Ethiopian forces, were injured in Monday's US air strike on suspected jihadists in southern Somalia, and later detained near the Kenyan border.

America Attacks in Somalia
Leader: The US airstrikes which reportedly killed large numbers of people in southern Somalia on Sunday and Monday - whether they are jihadi militants or civilians is not yet known - were the first overt military action Washington has taken in the country since 1994, the year after bloody clashes between UN forces and warlords and the grim Black Hawk Down battle which left 18 US servicemen dead.

Jihad Videos Posted on Youtube Website
In recent months footage once available only in Baghdad shops and on jihadi message boards has appeared on video-sharing websites such as YouTube and Google Video.

Framing The Great Debate: The Zionist Question
Does Israel have the right to Exist? Has Iran Declared Nasrallah the Ayatollah of the United Palestinian Republic? Are we ready for a Propaganda War? Has the Great Debate of the Zionist Question ever been framed in this manner before? A Window into the Mind of Madness. Welcome to World War III and the Logic of Defensive Jihad.

Address to the United States: WW3?
Ayatollah threatens Defensive Jihad. Chapter 6 UN Resolution as a means to WWIII? Total Defensive War? May Time's Tumblers and Wrinkles Save Us.

Palestinian Groups Agree Deal for Return of Israeli
Palestinian factions, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, have agreed to stop firing rockets at Israel and to free a captured Israeli soldier in a deal brokered by Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president.

Is The Media Commending Islamic Terrorists?
Is the media's perception of Islamic jihad correct?

Israel Kills Militant As Gaza Erupts
Islamic Jihad commander dies in missile strike. Israel assassinated the most senior commander of the terror group Islamic Jihad in Gaza yesterday in an attack that also killed a...

We Don't Do Assassinations. But We Need an Ethical Code
The fight against jihadist terrorism carries real costs - so it needs public legitimacy and support. By Martin Kettle

Militant Group Says Grim Video Shows Downed Us Apache Pilot
A jihadist group yesterday posted a blurry video on the internet purporting to show an American helicopter pilot being dragged burning along the ground. The group, the Shura Council of Mujahideen, claimed its military wing had shot down the Apache helicopter in Iraq.

Outback Jihadists 'had Australia's Only Nuclear Reactor in Their Sights'
Australia's only nuclear reactor was a possible target for alleged Islamic militants arrested for plotting a major attack, it was revealed yesterday.

Muslim Women Launch International 'gender Jihad'
Marching under the banner of a new "gender jihad", Islamic feminists from around the world this weekend launched what they hope will become a global movement to liberate Muslim women.

Column Five: Jihad and Jingoism on Iran's Streets
The Iranian public is reliant on a diet of propaganda fed by the state-controlled media.

Israel Targets Islamic Jihad
· Sharon announces 'broad and continuous offensive' · Demand that Abbas confront armed groups

Game of Global Jihad That's Too Simplistic
For the Bush administration a seamless link exists between the Bali bombings and a host of similar post-September 11 atrocities in places as far apart as Iraq, Afghanistan, north Africa, Madrid and London. Simon Tisdall

Jihad With That?
The holy war donation tins may have gone from the fast food joints of Lahore but the president of Pakistan apparently still needs the militants he is supposed to be rooting out, writes Declan Walsh.

Madrasas Mix Football With Support for Jihad
It is a long way away from Leeds. The only similarity was perhaps the washing, hung out to dry on the balcony of the mosque's upper storey.

US Muslim to Appeal Life Sentence for Inciting Jihad
Defence lawyers said yesterday they would appeal against a life sentence imposed on a Muslim scholar for inciting his followers to fight a jihad against America, in a case that has raised questions about mandatory sentencing guidelines.

Iraq Creating New Breed of Jihadists, Says Cia
The war in Iraq is creating a new breed of Islamic jihadists who could go on to destabilise other countries, according to a CIA report.

High-flying Professor Faces Us Terror Trial
Prosecutors claim that Dr Sami al-Arian, and three other Arab-Americans who will be in the dock with him, commanded an Islamic Jihad cell that flourished in Tampa and infiltrated the University of South Florida.

Media and Muslims
Leader: Newsweek executives and journalists will be relieved to hear that Afghan mullahs have deferred a call for jihad - holy war - against the United States, following the magazine's retraction of a story about how a Qur'an was flushed down a toilet at the Guantánamo Bay prison.

What the Middle Ages Did for Us
As the world slips back into cycles of holy war and revenge, the film Kingdom of Heaven suggests a solution. Jonathan Jones

Abductions And Absurdities
The Giuliana Sgrena saga seems to have been hijacked by knee-jerk punditry and murky details.

Tel Aviv Bomb Rocks Peace Process
Four killed in suicide blast claimed by Islamic Jihad.

Police Balk at Stopping Gaza Terror
The Palestinian chief of police has questioned whether his officers, who begin patrolling the Gaza border today to stop attacks on Israel, are prepared to confront Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

Abbas Claims Poll Landslide and Sets Sights on Israel Peace Talks
Mahmoud Abbas claimed a landslide victory in the Palestinian presidential election last night and prepared to outline today a post-Arafat programme encompassing internal reforms, securing a ceasefire from militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad and revitalising peace talks with Israel after a four-year impasse.

Bereaved Father to Sue Over Jihad Call
The father of a young Saudi fighter who died in Falluja is planning to sue religious scholars who have called for jihad against the US-led occupation of Iraq, a Saudi newspaper reported yesterday.

Saudi Call for Jihad
A group of Saudi religious scholars have signed an open letter urging Iraqis to support jihad against US-led forces. "Fighting the occupiers is a duty for all those who are able," they said in a statement posted on the internet at the weekend. "Resistance is a legitimate right. A Muslim...

Brother Believes Bigley is With New Captors
The brother of Ken Bigley said yesterday that he had a "gut feeling" the British hostage had been handed over to a more moderate group in Iraq. Reports in the Kuwait newspaper al-Rai al-Aam over the weekend claimed that the fundamentalist Tawhid and Jihad group - which snatched Mr Bigley...

Police Examine 'swap Detainees for Bigley' Offer
British police are investigating a claim that Ken Bigley, the British engineer held for more than two weeks by a militant Islamic group in Iraq, will be freed if the UK government releases around a dozen high-profile detainees. The statement, purporting to come from the Tawhid and Jihad...

UN Deadline Means War, Say Sudan's Armed Forces
General threatens jihad as more refugees head for Chad border.

Iraqi Governing Council Leader 'was Killed By Al-qaida Group'
A group led by al-Qaida figure Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is claiming responsibility for the bomb attack that killed the head of the Iraqi governing council on Monday, according to a statement on the internet. The Arabic-language statement, signed by Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad ("Monotheism and...

Gaza Death Toll Mounts As Israeli Troops Are Ambushed
Five soldiers killed hours before Islamic Jihad and Hamas hand over body parts from earlier attack.

Islamic Jihad Threatens Revenge
Islamic Jihad threatened yesterday to avenge the assassination of three of its activists in Gaza at the weekend with a wave of attacks that would mark "the blackest days in Israel's history". About 25,000 people attended the funerals of the three men, who were killed by an Israeli...

All This Jaw About Jihad is Just Tosh
It is crazy to confect an image of a world ravaged by violence. One thing - subconsciously, as we now say in polite society - goes with another. Just like the CIA and George Bush. Finally on the back foot about duff Iraqi dossiers?

Bomber's Family Hits Out at Islamic Jihad
Don't use children on suicide missions, parents plead.

Jewish Women Fight Holy War
Feminists demand the right to pray aloud at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall, despite the threat of jail and attacks by Orthodox men.

Islamists Trained in Rural France
French Islamist militants, who later spent time in al-Qaida military camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan and went on to became soldiers of the jihad, underwent their first group training exercises in the bucolic surroundings of the forest of Fontainebleau.

New terror army fulfils prophecy
Jason Burke on an unholy alliance of Muslim extremists. First, it was Afghanistan, then Bosnia and Chechnya, then, briefly, Afghanistan again. Now it is Iraq. Islamic militants talk of 'theatres of jihad'. The phrase, with its dual military and dramatic senses, connotations of combat and of audience, is significant.

Road Map Sowed Seeds of Ceasefire's Destruction
US plan called on Palestinian PM to rein in violence, while at the same time declaring war on Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

How the truce was broken
Israel and Palestinians agree disengagement deal in Gaza. Israeli troops begin Gaza pullback. Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Arafat's Fatah faction, including al-Aqsa Martyrs, declare truce.

Islam at the electronic frontier
Internet porn is popular in Muslim countries but so are online fatwas and 'e-jihad', writes Brian Whitaker.

Hamas and Islamic Jihad Agree to Ceasefire
The main Palestinian militant groups have agreed to suspend attacks on Israel, it was reported today, in a move that could give a much-needed boost to the US-backed "road map" to peace. A formal announcement by Hamas and Islamic Jihad is to be made on Sunday, according to a militia source...

Palestinian militants offer 3-month truce
Three Palestinian militant groups yesterday agreed to suspend attacks on all Israeli targets for three months. However, the agreement between Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction was almost immediately endangered when...

Iraq urges Muslims to join 'holy war'
· Iraqi official addresses nation
· US backs checkpoint killings soldiers
· 26th British soldier killed

Threat of suicide bombers changes the face of war
All the ingredients were there. For days, state media called for a holy war in defence of the sacred soil of Iraq. For weeks, masked men, dressed in white suits the colour of funeral shrouds with mock explosives on their chests, marched through Baghdad in ritualistic displays of defiance.

Ten Palestinians Killed in West Bank Raids
Israeli forces in the West Bank killed 10 Palestinians, at least eight of whom were thought to be Islamic militants, in two separate gun battles in the last 24 hours. Backed by helicopter gunships and tanks, Israeli troops this morning killed five gunmen from the Islamic Jihad group in a...

FBI Arrests Academic on Terror Charges
Muslim whose suspension sparked outcry is accused of being a leader of Islamic Jihad. A Palestinian professor in Florida who has become a cause celebre for civil liberties advocates seeking to protect free speech was arrested yesterday along with several other people on allegations of financing terrorism.

False trails that lead to the al-Qaeda 'links'
Since the aftermath of 11 September, it has been the Holy Grail of Bush administration hardliners: to link Iraq with al-Qaeda - and join up its war on terrorism with its policy of regime change in Baghdad.

Naples Police Arrest 28 Suspected Terrorists
Italian authorities arrested 28 men after a raid on a flat in Naples uncovered explosive materials, maps showing military bases, photos of jihad martyrs and 100 mobile phones. The men, all said to be Pakistanis, were charged with "association with international terrorism" and detectives...

Israeli Army Kills Seven Palestinians
The Israeli army killed at least seven Palestinians in a series of "targeted assassinations" in the West Bank yesterday. Among the dead were a senior member of Islamic Jihad, the alleged head of a suicide bombing cell and three teenagers. The killings came as Israeli troops...

Israeli Troops Reoccupy Bethlehem
One day after a suicide bomber killed seven adults and four children in Jerusalem, Israeli troops reoccupied the suspected bomber's hometown of Bethlehem early today. Yesterday police named 22-year-old Nael Abu Hilail, allegedly involved with the militant group Islamic Jihad, as the...

Get Circumcised, Angry Putin Tells Reporter
President Vladimir Putin has suggested that anyone who wants to criticise Russia's campaign in Chechnya should join the rebels in their Islamist holy war, adding that they could enhance their prospects of being accepted into the ranks by travelling to Moscow to be circumcised. Visibly...

Indonesian Jihad Camps Revealed
Terrorist camps run by al-Qaida related Islamist groups in Indonesia started being used to train foreign "armed jihad" recruits from Europe two years ago, according to documents lodged at Madrid's national court. The Spanish court documents reveal that at least one militant Islamist group...

Why 'blowback' is the hidden danger of war
CIA officers have a name for intelligence or military operations that rebound on those prosecuting them. They call it 'blowback', a concept neatly described by Peter Bergen in his book Al Qaeda Holy War Inc.

Palestinian Police Return to Bethlehem
Yasser Arafat's government is urging the militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad to "give peace a chance" after the first security deal agreed with Israel for more than a year. General Haj Ismail, the top Palestinian security force commander, told the Guardian yesterday that he would be...

'Betrayal' of Confused Jihadis
Pakistan's shadowy spy agency, the ISI, has run thousands of militants into Kashmir and is now responsible for reining them in.

Word association ignites Harvard row as student prepares jihad talk
A row over one emotive little word is threatening to wreck the most important day of the year at America's most prestigious university.

Young Egyptians cross into Gaza to join jihad
Young Egyptians are making daily attempts to cross the border into the occupied territory of Gaza to fight alongside the Palestinians against Israel.

US penal culture baffles its allies
It is hard to imagine how disoriented the new inmates of Camp X-Ray must feel as they sit staring from their Guantanamo Bay cages. They signed on to fight a holy war in the dry mountains of Afghanistan, but have ended up in a sweaty corner of a tropical island on the other side of the world, being...

NCAA: A SEC-ular Holy War
Even without a national title on the line, the SEC Championship Game commands attention.