And in 2000 he was deported from Israel over allegations that he backed the militant Islamic group Hamas.
That was the Islamic group that briefly took over control of Somalia, but is now on the run again.
The United States has dubbed Jemaah Islamiyah, an Indonesian Islamic group implicated in the attack, a foreign terrorist organisation.
One of the founders of the Islamic Group was Karam Zuhdy, a former student of agricultural management at Asyut University.
According to Zuhdy, the Egyptian government responded to the nonviolence initiative by releasing twelve thousand five hundred members of the Islamic Group.
They are believed to have been taken by militants from the Abu Sayyaf Islamic group, but there was no public claim of responsibility.
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Fifty-two suspected members of the radical Islamic group, Salafia Jihadia, appeared in a cage of bullet-proof glass in the criminal chamber of Casablanca's appeals court.
There has been no terror attack on mainland France since 1995, when a series of bombings was claimed by a group calling itself the Armed Islamic Group general command.
The alleged cell, he said, was "probably the most dangerous" France had seen since the Algerian-based GIA (Armed Islamic Group), which carried out a series of attacks in 1995-96.
In 1997, rumors of a possible deal between the Islamic Group and the Egyptian government reached Zawahiri, who was then hiding in an Al Qaeda safe house in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Most of the skepticism over Iranian involvement with al-Qaeda has centered around the fact that Iran is ruled by a Shia Islamic theocracy, whereas al-Qaeda is a Sunni Wahhabi Islamic group.
The men, all arrested between December 9 and 24 under the Internal Security Act, were members of the Jemaah Islamiyah -- a clandestine Islamic Group with links to other Southeast Asian nations.
The French security alert follows a plan, codenamed Vigipirate, which was first introduced in 1995 following a series of bombings in Paris that were blamed on Algerian guerrillas of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA).
In a neat historical parallel, Dhani's savior and mentor, Mr. Wahid, is a direct descendant of Siti Jenar, a 16th-century Sufi prophet who also preached tolerance in the face of a militant Islamic group in Java.
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He returned to Algeria as a hardened fighter with a new nickname "Belaouar" -- the "one-eyed" -- after his battlefield injury, and joined forces with the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) in its brutal campaign against the Algerian regime and civilians deemed to be its supporters.
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But at Wednesday's hearing, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-South Carolina, quoted what he said was an internal e-mail dated the day after the attack in which Assistant Secretary of State Beth Jones told the Libyan ambassador that Islamic group Ansar al-Sharia was responsible for the attack.
He returned to Algeria as a hardened fighter with a new nickname "Belaouar" -- the "one-eyed" -- after a battlefield injury, and joined forces with the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) in its brutal campaign against the Algerian regime and civilians deemed to be its supporters.
McCain said the United States would not be able to avoid a dialogue with the Islamic militant group.
Like many activist Muslim students, Mr. Saied belonged to an Islamic study group.
He has since fallen out with its leaders, particularly Ayman al-Zawahiri, who succeeded him as head of Egypt's Islamic Jihad group.
It is led by Abdel Hakim Belhaj, once head of the now defunct Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, widely regarded as being close to al-Qaeda.
The FBI is severing ties with a national Islamic rights group that wins praise in the liberal media but is seen by conservatives as a front for the radical Muslim movement.
The Islamic scholars involved with this group occupy influential positions in universities, Islamic centers, and mosques throughout the United States.
But Israeli experts tend to give credence to another claim issued in the name of the smaller fundamentalist group, Islamic Jihad: they recall a similar multiple explosion at a bus stop for soldiers in 1995 which was Islamic Jihad's doing.
Alamoudi also provided seed money for another group, the Islamic Institute, which is tied closely to the GOP.
Bahrain's second largest Shia group, the Islamic Action Society, is also standing this year after a 2002 boycott.
Pearl, 38, was abducted last week while on his way to interview the head of the fundamentalist Islamic Jamaat ul-Fuqra group in Karachi.
But the Iraqi Islamic Party, another Sunni group that has joined Mr Allawi's government while criticising many of its policies, has urged its co-religionists to vote lest they be marginalised.
Abdurahman Alamoudi, who provided seed money for activist Grover Norquist to start a pressure group called the Islamic Institute, allegedly was recruited by Libyan intelligence as part of a plot to assassinate the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.
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