Meanwhile, a furtive conversation was taking place among the imprisoned leaders of the Islamic Group.
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.
That was the Islamic group that briefly took over control of Somalia, but is now on the run again.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
When Mr Yassin co-founded Hamas in 1987, the Islamic group's aim was not just to end Israel's occupation of the Gaza strip and West Bank (which had both been seized in a war 20 years earlier) but also to destroy Israel itself.
In early 1997, about a year after sentencing, Sheikh Abdel Rahman's Egyptian terrorist organization, al-Gama'at al-Islamia (the Islamic Group), issued a statement declaring "all American interests legitimate targets" for "legitimate jihad" until the release of all those convicted terrorists, beginning with their beloved leader.
In 1997, members of Abdel Rahman's organization (Gama al Islamiyah, or the Islamic Group, which is designated by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization) murdered more than 60 tourists at Luxor, Egypt, and inserted notes in the body cavities of several victims demanding the Blind Sheik's release.
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.
Gilad Shalit, held for two years, was seized in June 2006 in a raid into Israel by militants of Hamas, the radical Islamic group that Israel and the United States consider a terrorist organization.
The group also took to task Hamas, the Islamic militant group that has ruled Gaza since 2007.
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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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.
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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According to the indictment, Padilla went to Afghanistan in 1999 and 2000 and underwent weapons and explosives training by al Qaeda, the Islamic terror group led by Saudi exile Osama bin Laden and responsible for the September 11 attacks.
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.
But in December the Interior Ministry announced the dissolution of a seven-man cell linked to Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, the same group that had formed an Islamic emirate in northern Mali in alliance with Tuareg tribesmen.
The Islamic militant group, now banned in Pakistan, also is blamed for the 2001 Parliament attack.
The Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas claimed responsibility for the explosion, according to Palestinian sources.
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And in 2000 he was deported from Israel over allegations that he backed the militant Islamic group Hamas.
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