Word: islamicizing
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But Khomeini was not having any of it. He denounced the Red Sea mining, for which the shadowy Islamic Jihad organization had claimed responsibility, and he seized the opportunity to deny that his government had been involved in any recent airplane hijackings. Declared Khomeini: "How could we support something that...
So far, the only suspect to have confessed was Islamic Jihad, the fanatical organization that admitted causing much of last year's terror in Beirut, including the April 18 car bombing of the U.S. embassy and the Oct. 23 attacks on American and French military facilities outside the Lebanese...
Air France Flight 747 from Frankfurt had just begun its descent toward Paris in the late-afternoon sun last Tuesday when three men, brandishing knives and Molotov cocktails, burst into the cockpit and demanded to be taken to Iran. Thus began for their 61 hostages a harrowing 46-hour journey...
An unconfirmed report broadcast last week by the clandestine Radio Free Lebanon claimed that a group called the Islamic Jihad Movement had planted 190 mines in the Gulf of Suez. In Washington, one perplexed Pentagon official summed up the confusion when he declared, "Until we know what it is, we...
Parliamentary Leader Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani had indicated earlier that he was giving serious consideration to an invitation from Saudi Arabia to go on hajj, the Islamic pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca. A Rafsanjani trip to Saudi Arabia would be an important symbolic step toward relieving tensions between...