Egyptian Islamic Jihad

Egyptian Islamist militant group active since the late 1970s

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About Egyptian Islamic Jihad

The Egyptian Islamic Jihad, formerly called simply Islamic Jihad and the Liberation Army for Holy Sites, originally referred to as al-Jihad, and then the Jihad Group, or the Jihad Organization, was an Egyptian Islamist group active from the late 1970s until its 2001 merger with al-Qaeda. It was long considered an affiliate of al-Qaeda and under worldwide embargo by the United Nations. It was also banned by several individual governments worldwide. The group is a proscribed terrorist organization in the United Kingdom under the Terrorism Act 2000.

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