Analysts suggest that if there was a retaliatory strike, it might target known figures in Islamic Jihad.
Barzinji was named in a federal affidavit as being closely associated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas.
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Press reports identify Al-Awani as Unindicted Co-Conspirator Number 5 in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad case of Sami Al-Arian in Florida.
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He has since fallen out with its leaders, particularly Ayman al-Zawahiri, who succeeded him as head of Egypt's Islamic Jihad group.
Many of the leaders of Palestinian Islamist groups, such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, are either medical doctors, engineers or university professors.
Some did admit that Lynne Stewart did abuse the attorney-client relationship by illegally acting as a courier for the Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
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That included a commitment on the part of Yasser Arafat to arrest some 100 named operatives of Islamic Jihad and Hamas, among others.
On ABC's "This Week, " Rahall said a "strong request" was made to close the offices of Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other groups in Syria.
As prime minister in the 1980s, Mousavi was a major instigator of Iran's nuclear program and he oversaw the establishment of Hizbullah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
More worrying, though, was Israel's other, less violent response to the Hamas rockets: the arrests of hundreds of Hamas and Islamic Jihad activists in the West Bank.
He could argue to his people that hitting Hamas and the Islamic Jihad was necessary to safeguard the peace process and, with it, the future promise of a Palestinian state.
Mr Sharon said that Hamas and Islamic Jihad must cease to exist as paramilitary groups if the ceasefire is to have a chance of taking hold and evolving into a peace process.
Mr. Al-Arian's access only ended when he was indicted and held without bail on some forty counts, including charges that he ran Palestinian Islamic Jihad for ten years from his office at the University of South Florida.
Because of these ties, he is disliked by many fellow-members in Fatah, and thoroughly distrusted by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, who remember his threat to demolish their organisations after the Islamist suicide attacks in Israel in 1996.
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.
For example, an individual once courted by the Bush team as part of its efforts to woo Muslims -- Sami Al-Arian -- is now in federal custody awaiting trial on fifty charges of running the North American operations of Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Far from limiting its war effort to fending off the encircling allied powers of Russia, France and Britain, German diplomats and soldiers tried to foment popular anti-colonial revolution in India and Egypt, to create a widespread Islamic jihad against the colonial rulers, to disrupt the allies' global communications.
Denial of an Islamic basis to a war that the enemy says is grounded in Islamic doctrines of jihad reflects the acceptance of enormous risk.
"As a Muslim, I know this case is a matter of Islamic law, " says Mohamed Jihad, a teacher at the school.
Mr Ag Intalla told AP news agency the IMA was linked to neither al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) nor the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (Mujao), two groups which control large swathes of northern Mali and are led by an Algerian and a Mauritanian respectively.
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