Meanwhile, a furtive conversation was taking place among the imprisoned leaders of the Islamic Group.
Hamas, a militant Islamic group, is the main political opposition to Arafat and his Fatah party.
In 1990, the spokesman for the Islamic Group was shot dead in the street in Cairo.
He also complained that Al Jihad was undertaking operations only to emulate the Islamic Group.
The Abu Sayyaf Islamic group is particularly well-known for using kidnapping as a way to raise funds.
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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.
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the Islamic group's founder, was then placed under house arrest.
He scolded the Islamic Group in particular, at a time when Zawahiri was attempting to engineer a merger with it.
One of the founders of the Islamic Group was Karam Zuhdy, a former student of agricultural management at Asyut University.
If Zawahiri and the exiled members of the Islamic Group hoped that this action would undermine the nonviolence initiative, they miscalculated.
According to Zuhdy, the Egyptian government responded to the nonviolence initiative by releasing twelve thousand five hundred members of the Islamic Group.
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The intelligence official says his information is that Haji Zaman handed bin Laden over to the protection of an Islamic group in Pakistan.
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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From Sudan, members of Al Jihad watched enviously as a much larger organization, the Islamic Group, waged open warfare on the Egyptian state.
The Islamic group has nominated Khairat el-Shater, a multimillionaire businessman who spent 12 years behind bars under Mubarak's rule, as their No. 1 choice.
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The worst of the fighting was waged by the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), which denounced democracy and embraced jihad as the only means to power.
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Yarmuk, a local militant Islamic group with Chechen links, said that its fighters had been involved on the ground as part of a Caucasus Front.
There was little doubt that the government was behind the killing, and soon afterward the Islamic Group announced its intention to respond with a terror campaign.
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.
Two years into the intifada, the Islamic group is now a dominant power in the occupied territories, and nowhere more than in the penurious, besieged towns and refugee camps of Gaza.
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One Islamic group has claimed responsibility for certain attacks.
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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 Islamic Group had a reputation in Egypt for acting as a kind of moral police force, often quite savagely for instance, throwing acid in the face of a woman who was wearing makeup.
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