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jihad

Holy war undertaken by Muslims against nonbelievers. In the Mecca Declaration (1981), the Islamic powers pledged a jihad against Israel, though not necessarily military attack.


From the Hutchinson Encyclopedia of World History. © Research Machines plc [2006] All Rights Reserved, Helicon Publishing is a division of Research Machines.
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Yasser Arafat
25 February 2005

Weeks after Israeli and Palestinian leaders declared a truce, four Israelis are killed and at least 30 people injured in a bomb blast outside a night club in Tel Aviv, Islamic Jihad claim responsibility.

8 August 1991
Islamic Jihad terrorists release British journalist John McCarthy - 5 years and 3 months after being kidnapped in Beirut. He had been held hostage since April 17, 1986 - a total of 1,943 days.
2 November 1986
American David Jacobsen is released by Islamic Jihad in Beruit, Lebanon, having been held hostage for 17months.  
18 November 1991
In Beirut, Lebanon, hostages Terry Waite, the special envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and American University professor, Thomas Sutherland, are released by Islamic Jihad. Waite had been kidnapped in January 1987. Sutherland had disappeared in June 1985.
4 December 1991
American Terry Anderson is released by the Islamic Jihad in Lebanon - 2,454 days after being taken hostage in Beirut.
 

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