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Meanings of Islamic Jihad in English

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hizbollah

A Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran; seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state in Lebanon; car bombs are the signature weapon.

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      An Islamic extremist group active since the late 1970s; seeks to overthrow the Egyptian government and replace it with an Islamic state; works in small underground cells.

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            BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb went off near a government-backed militia patrol and wounded two militiamen in the capital's southwestern al-Jihad district, police said.
            Reuters
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            They're thought to be closely affiliated with the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, whose-
            Stolen heat
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            When the militant Egyptian Islamic Jihad was founded in 1973, he joined.
            The Irish Times
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            Al Qaeda, Shia extremists, two Sunni extremists, and even one from the Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
            Patient Zero
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            That cell joined similar ones to form Gamaa Jihad, or the Holy War Group, which became Egyptian Islamic Jihad, led for many years by Zawahiri.
            The Irish Times
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            By 1980 he was rising through the ranks of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, which merged with al Qaeda in 1998.
            Frontier fury
            Usage of Islamic Jihad in English
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            They're thought to be closely affiliated with the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, whose-
            Stolen heat
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            When the militant Egyptian Islamic Jihad was founded in 1973, he joined.
            The Irish Times
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            Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other groups have vowed to carry out more attacks.
            The Guardian
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            Sayyed didn't like the way the Islamic Jihad's heavy was looking at him.
            American assassin
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            Another was an unarmed man from Islamic Jihad, the group said.
            The Irish Times
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            Five of those killed were gunmen from Islamic Jihad and Hamas.
            The Irish Times
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            The militant group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
            The Irish Times
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            In the Gaza Strip, hundreds of Islamic Jihad supporters rallied to support the uprising.
            Reuters
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            Witnesses in the southern Gaza Strip said two Islamic Jihad posts was hit there.
            Reuters
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            Israeli soldiers killed a top military leader of the Islamic Jihad group this morning.
            The Irish Times
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            Among the dead was Hani al-Sharif, a member of the militant group Islamic Jihad.
            The Irish Times
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            And it is not only the two Islamic Jihad accounts.
            American assassin
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            It would be centered on Primakov's distrust of Islamic Jihad and its sister organizations.
            American assassin
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            Mustapha Badredeen, the leader of Islamic Jihad, was at the head of the table.
            American assassin
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            At least one of the other Palestinians killed was also an Islamic Jihad militant.
            The Irish Times
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            Three Islamic Jihad activists were killed in the ensuing gunbattle.
            The Irish Times
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            hizbollah