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Islam Terrorism Groups

Palestine:
PLO, Hamas, ANO, PIJ

Fundamentalism:
Al-Quaida (The Base), Osama Bin Laden - Hezbollah
Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey,
 

Israel-Palestine (Peace Process)   The "Jerusalem" Solution
War on Terrorism: Afghanistan, Anthrax
911: War on Iraq

Art Gallery of Islam
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In Palestine: PLO, Hamas, ANO, PIJ:

    PLO:
    The Palestine Liberation Organization was established in 1964 with Arab support. At that time, the PLO was headed by Mr. Ahmed Al-
    In 1969, Yasser Arafat, leader of Fateh, became the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the PLO and, in 1971, he became the General Commander of the Palestine Forces.
    The PLO has been the embodiment of the Palestinian national movement, striving to achieve the national goals of the Palestinian people, including the establishment of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
    The Arab Summit in 1974 recognized the PLO as the "sole and legitimate representative of the Palestinian people" and since then the PLO has represented Palestine at the United Nations, the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries (NAM), and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
    The PLO Charter. The full text, which negates Israel's right to exist and calls for its destruction through violence.

    Hamas (Egypt-Palestine):
    Hamas (a word meaning courage and bravery) was established in Palestine in the end of 1987 by former members of Muslim Brotherhood Organization founded under the leadership of Hassan EL-BENNA in Egypt. This organization is known as the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood Organization. Hamas believes that the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) does not represent the Palestinians and Muslims and that the PLO is not actively enough fighting against Israel. They support the idea of an armed Holy war (Jihad), what brings them into conflict with the more moderate parts of the Muslim Brotherhood Organization.
    Hamas disagrees with the Palestinian Liberation Organization's peace policy and the efforts to come to an agreement with Israel, since in the eyes of this organization Palestine is still under Israeli occupation and no change has taken place at all. It operates under the spiritual leadership of Sheik Ahmed YASSIN.
    Hamas disagrees with the Israel-Palestine peace process and launches from time to time suicide attacks in order to prevent the peace process and tries to provocate fanatic Israelis... it is the biggest obstacle hindering an agreement with Israel.          
   On August 20, 1997, Arafat embraced the militants of Hamas and the Islamic Holy War leaders in defiance of Israel and the peace process.

    ANO (Palestine, Lebanon):
   Fatah al-Qiyadah al-Thawriyyah, is a Palestinian organization better known as the Abu Nidal Organization (ANO). headed by Sabri al-Bana (Abu Nidal) and founded in 1974 as a consequence of Abu Nidal`s split from the Fatah organization.
    Fatah-RC was considered the most dangerous, active and murderous Palestinian terror organization in the 1980s.
    It practically ceased all terrorist attacks in the 1990s, although it is still considered to be potentially dangerous due to its new relations with Iran.
    The FatahRC was also known as the Arab Revolutionary Council but choose to claim credit for its actions under the names of the Arab Revolutionary Brigades and the Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims.

    Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) (Palestine, Syria):
    Originated the Gaza Strip during the 1970s. PIJ-Shiqaqi faction, currently led by Ramadan Shallah in Damascus, Syria, is most active. Committed to the creation of an Islamic Palestinian state and the destruction of Israel through holy war.
    PIJ activists have conducted many attacks including large-scale suicide bombings against Israeli civilian and military targets. The group increased its operational activity in 2002, but has not yet targeted US interests.

Islamic "fundamentalism": Iran, Iraq, Egypt... Al-Quaida, Hizbollah...

    In Afghanistan, Al-Quaida (The Base-Bin Laden):
    Al-Quaida was established by Usama Bin Ladin in the late 1980s to bring together Arabs who fought in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union. Current goal is to establish a pan-Islamic Caliphate throughout the world. Merged with Egyptian Islamic Jihad (Al-Jihad) in June 2001.
    On September 11, 2001, 19 al-Qaida suicide attackers hijacked and crashed four US commercial jets. Directed the 12 October 2000 attack on the USA Cole in the port of Aden, Yemen, killing 17 US Navy members, and injuring another 39. Conducted the bombings in August 1998 of the US Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, that killed at least 301 individuals and injured more than 5,000 others. Claims to have shot down US helicopters and killed US servicemen in Somalia in 1993 and to have conducted three bombings that targeted US troops in Aden, Yemen, in December 1992.
    It serves as a focal point or umbrella organization for a worldwide network that includes many Sunni Islamic extremist groups, some members of al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, and the Harakat ul-Mujahidin.
    Al-Qaida has cells worldwide and is reinforced by its ties to Sunni extremist networks.   
   Al-Qaida (The Base/ Bin Laden)

    In Lebanon:. Hezbollah (Party of God) (Lebanon, Syria):
    It is an extremist political-religious movement based in Lebanon. The movement was created and sponsored by Iran in July 1982, initially as a form of resistance to the Israeli presence in Southern Lebanon. Hizbollah was the brainchild of Ali Akbar Mohtashemi, the Iranian Ambassador to Syria.
    Hezbollah's followers are Shia Muslims who took the lead from Ayatollah Khomeini, then Iran's leader. They are strongly anti-Western and anti-Israeli and totally dedicated to the creation of an Iranian-style Islamic Republic in Lebanon, and the removal of non-Islamic influences in the area.
    Iran donates vast amounts of money to Hezbollah. Its funds from Iran in the 1980s totaled $60-80 million a year. Examples of its terrorist acts include the abduction of Western hostages in 1982, and suicide attacks on the US Marines and French military barracks in Beirut.
    Hezbollah was established under the spiritual leadership of Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, a Shia cleric. The movement joined forces with smaller Shia political parties such as the Hussein Suicide Squad, Dawah, the Lebanese branch of the Iraq-based al-Dawah-al-Islamiya, and with dissatisfied members of the older, Islamic Amal.

    Islamic fundamentalism is on the rise, trying to create "Muslim States", where the leader is both the head of the religious and political branches, and the Koran is lived to the letter, with the women wearing their veils, and out of colleges...

    In Iran: The most successful victory was in "Iran", with the Ayatollah Khomeini overthrowing the American sponsored Shah of Iran in 1979.... The reactionary rule of Iran seeks to expand its power to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, and the Persian Golf emirates.

    In Iraq: There are 60% Shiites and 40% Sunnis... Saddam Hussein is a Sunni, and the Shiites can't even gather in their most holy sanctuaries... thousands oft hem have been killed by the Saddam regime, and they would love to have a Muslim Shiite state in Iraq, similar to Iran.
    The Kurds are a non-Arabic people who speak a language related to Persian. Most adhere to the Sunni Muslim faith. Most Kurds live in the generally contiguous areas of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Armenia and Syria – a mountainous region of southwest Asia generally known as Kurdistan ("Land of the Kurds"). They are the largest ethnic group in the world without their own country, with more than twenty million. Throughout the 20th century their struggles for political and cultural autonomy were opposed by countries in the area, which often used the Kurds as pawns in regional politics.    
    These different ideologies among the Muslims in Iraq may create a great problem to create a new Iraq.

    In Egypt: President Sadat was assassinated by a fundamentalist of the "Muslim Brotherhood", founded in Ismailia, Egypt, by Hasan al-Ranna in 1930. This movement spread to Syria, Palestine, Sudan...

    The Indo-Pakistan equivalent of the Muslim Brotherhood is the "Islamic Party", and in 1947 "Pakistan", meaning "nation of the pure", was established as a new experiment in modern Muslim statehood.

    In Libya, an Islamic revolutionary regime was established by al-Qadahfi in 1969, as the one in "Sudan" by Kemal Ataturk in 1923.

    In Syria: Hizbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah called on Arab and Muslim states on April 2003 to defend Syria if the United States launched any military action against Damascus.

    In Turkey: The Ottoman Empire and the caliphate disappeared in the 20th century with the establishment of a secular state.

Links:
    http://library.nps.navy.mil/home/terrorism.htm
    http://www.mw-line.at/mw_forces_anti-terror_information.html
    http://library.nps.navy.mil/home/tgp/qaida.htm    
    http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Quaida
    http://www.palestine-un.org/plo/frindex.html
    http://www.netaxs.com/~iris/plohist.htm
    http://www.ict.org.il/inter_ter/orgdet.cfm?orgid=13
    http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0312/p07s01-wome.html
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/daily/feb99/kurdprofile.htm
    http://library.nps.navy.mil/home/tgp/pij.htm