Al Jihad, Vanguards of Conquest and Al Qaeda (Canadian; full text) - Blogger News Network
Al Jihad, Vanguards of Conquest and Al Qaeda (Canadian; full text) - Blogger News Network
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August 1998 Al Jihad member Issam Abdel-Tawab Abdel Alim is extradited to Egypt from Bulgaria. August 1998 The United States embassy in Albania is closed ...
A 15-year-old girl standing at a nearby bus stop was killed. A split emerged between the leaders in prison and the exiled leaders of Al Jihad, and militant cells who vowed to continue the violence.December 1995 Egyptian Security forces arrest 56 terrorists after being tipped off by an Al Jihad informer. Al Jihad issued a statement claiming the action was to avenge the blood of martyrs and recent death sentences.September 1993 Military court charges 65 people with plotting to overthrowthe government and trying to reform Al Jihad. Al Qaeda and the AJ encourage followers and allied groups to overthrow what it terms “ungodly princes” and establish pure Islamist administrations. Al Qaeda later claimed responsibility for the attacks.April 2005 A three day battle in Al-Ras, Saudi Arabia, between Saudi authorities and Al Qaeda militants left 15 Al Qaeda militants dead. Although the group’s fundamental objective; establishing an Islamist state remains the same, the focus of its attacks has shifted from Egypt to the United States.442. An Egyptian with Canadian citizenship, Ahmad Saeed Kadr (Khadr), was charged in connection with the bombing. At least 55 people were killed and 700 more were injured. By 1989, Al Qaeda had established operational cooperation with the Egyptian Islamic Group and with the Egyptian Islamic Jihad (Al Jihad) and later absorbed them into its structure. Canada has been named as a legitimate target of attack on six occasions by Al Qaeda and groups or individuals linked to Al Qaeda. Cole in Yemen, and the 9/11 attacks.63 The Bin Laden Network encompasses alliances with many Sunni Islamist groups.64 Al Qaeda functions as an umbrella organization, with a presence in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia. Despite the dispersion of the Al Qaeda leadership and the group’s reduced ability to centrally organize and control operations, Bin Laden and his lieutenant Ayman Al Zawahiri (former leader of the AJ) are still at large. During a review of a military parade the terrorists, armed with automatic assault rifles and hand grenades, broke ranks from the procession and attacked the reviewing stand. Egyptian officials question him regarding the bombing of the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan.April 1999 The “Returnees from Albania” are tried in a Cairo court. Farag Foda, a renowned Egyptian intellectual and anti-extremist writer.July 1991 An arsenal of automatic weapons and grenades from two arms depots belonging to five members of Al Jihad is seized. Formed in the late 1970s as a coalition of Egyptian Islamist organisations, by 1998, the EIJ or AJ was the backbone of Al Qaeda, and in June 2001 the two groups were reported to have merged into a single group. Getman on Monday, February 25th, 2008 at 5:36 am under: All News.Comment Feed (RSS 2.0). GetmanBelow is the full-text of an appendix titled “Al Jihad, Vanguards of Conquest and Al Qaeda” from the Canadian UNCLASSIFIED Summary of the Security Intelligence Report concerning Mohamed Zeki Mahjoub. However, as the AJ became increasingly involved in the Al Qaeda network, its objectives expanded in line with an international radical Islamist agenda. In 1999, the activities of the VOC received increased media coverage. In April 2002, however, Egyptian officials arrested 30 fundamentalists for allegedly planning to revive the group59, an arrest which shows that there may still be supporters who seek to restore the VOC.The Osama Bin Laden Network and Al Qaeda7. In the video, Mansour Dadullah, a Taliban commander, announced that American, Canadian, British and German interests were all viable targets and that the recent graduates will be deployed to each of these countries.7511. Individuals supporting Al Qaeda’s ideology have amply demonstrated that they are prepared to participate in jihad against the West. Initially, the AJ was formed from organisations seeking the overthrow of the secular government in Egypt, and the establishment of a radical Islamist government. Intelligence agencies have uncovered reliable evidence indicating the involvement of Al Jihad. Intelligence sources in the United States had also asserted that the Liberation Army for Holy Sites organization, which claimed credit, is synonymous with the AJ.493. Khawaja’s British co-conspirators were tried and convicted to life in prison on April 30, 2007 and Khawaja himself will be going to trial in early 200877.12. On June 16, 1999, the AJ and several of its high-ranking members (most notably Ayman Al Zawahiri) along with Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, were indicted by the US for involvement in the August 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. On the date of the arrest, a large quantity of arms, ammunition, explosives, disguises, forged identity cards and documents were seized.May 1987 Major General Hasan Abu Basha is shot outside his home in Cairo. Osama Bin Laden created a powerful international terrorist group by co-opting experienced Islamist groups into Al Qaeda, the integration of two Egyptian groups being pivotal. Resulting confessions revealed that Al Jihad was planning to strike at tourist sites in Cairo and to assassinate a number of public figures and security officers.May 1998 Al Jihad issues a statement entitled “No Solution except through Jihad”. Rif’ at al-Mahjub and five security men on October 12, 1990. Seven people were killed, all of them either attackers or Saudi security personnel.October 2004 Israel blamed Al Qaeda for attacks in a hotel in Taba, and on a campsite in Ras, on Egypt’s Sinai peninsula. Several Al Jihad members and two Islamist Group members were arrested in connection with the attack.October 1981 President Anwar Sadat is assassinated by four members of Al Jihad. Suspects had trained in militant camps in Pakistan.July 2007 British authorities foiled a terror attack when explosives were found in two cars parked in London’s entertainment district. The American ABC network broadcasted a video in which approximately 300 apparently newly trained suicide bombers celebrated their graduation from a terrorist training camp. The attacks were believed to be related.April 2007 Al Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) claimed responsibility for three suicide attacks in Algiers, Algeria. The bomb killed a Swede, a Turk, a Somali and an Egyptian, and injured 20 others.June 1992 Al Jihad assassinates Dr. The Casablanca attacks of May 2003, the Madrid train bombings of March 2004, and the London subway bombings of July 2005 illustrate this “third tier”. The current status of the VOC is unknown, especially considering the June 2001 merging of the AJ with Al Qaeda. The five were arrested along with 132 others who had used the depots. The Front subsequently issued a fatwa calling for the killing of Americans worldwide and the expulsion of Americans from the holy land and Jews from Jerusalem. The press release stated, “We wish to tell the Americans that we received their message, and a reply is now being prepared. The Vanguards of Conquest and Al Jihad issue separate threats of retaliation after the verdicts are handed down on April 18. The VOC was created in 1993 as a faction of the AJ.51 In 1993, the VOC carried out two assassination attempts. Their leaders, most notably Ayman Al Zawahiri, became leaders of Al Qaeda whose aim is to unite all Muslims, and establish a government which follows Islamic rule.608. They regularly issue audio or video tapes which are widely distributed in the Arab and Muslim world. They were subsequently inspired by a televised message from Bin Laden in October 2003, in which he threatened retaliation against countries that participated in the war in Iraq, including Spain.70Threats to Canada or Canadian Interests10. Thirty people were killed, over a third of them Israelis.May 2004 Militants attacked an oil company and housing compounds in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, taking dozens of people hostage. Those indicted also included Ibrahim Eidarous, and Adil Abd Al Bari, both alleged London-based members of the AJ.50Vanguards of Conquest4. Two jets crashed into the World Trade Center buildings in New York City, one crashed into the Pentagon in Washington, DC., and one crashed into a field in Pennsylvania after passengers prevented the hijackers from reaching their intended target. Upwards of 3,000 people were killed.June 2001 The Egyptian Islamic Jihad (AJ) merged with Osama Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda Organization.May 1999 Vanguards of Conquest official Hasan Ahmad Rabi’ is extradited to Egypt from Kuwait. You can get YOUR message to those readers - with CPMs as low as $0.22.
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