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Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999 to Wednesday, June 30, 1999
The US has officially charged Ayman El-Zawahri, leader of the underground Jihad group, and his aide, Khaled El-Fawwaz, with involvement in the twin bombings of its embassies in Kenya and Tanzania last August. El-Zawahri is believed to reside in Afghanistan while El-Fawwaz is under arrest in...
Date of source: Thursday, June 17, 1999 to Wednesday, June 23, 1999
Mahmoud Sayed Gaballah, an Egyptian militant Islamist suspect confined in a
Toronto prison, spurned a Canadian court offer, made last Thursday, to be handed
over to a third country, fearing this could lead to his extradition to Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, June 20, 1999
Exiled Saudi dissident Osama Bin Laden and his followers, blamed by the United States for the 1998 embassy bombings in Africa, may be close to conducting a "terrorist attack," a U.S. intelligence official said Thursday [June 17, 1999]. "We regard him a serious threat, and we have taken a number of...
Date of source: Thursday, June 17, 1999 to Wednesday, June 23, 1999
Islamic militant Osama Bin Laden, one of the FBI’s "Ten Most Wanted" men, called on Muslims to target all Americans and condemned them as "immoral," in a television interview broadcast June 10. "They are an immoral people without values," he told Qatar’s satellite television station Al-Jazira in an...
Date of source: Thursday, May 27, 1999 to Wednesday, June 2, 1999
Shortly after Ali Abul-Saoud Mustafa, a fugitive Egyptian Islamist, was arrested in the United States last month, he was accused by American prosecution authorities of cooperating with Saudi dissident Osama Bin Laden in a worldwide anti-American conspiracy. The Egyptian government had requested...
Date of source: Thursday, May 20, 1999 to Wednesday, May 26, 1999
Switzerland’s federal police chief said on May 13 that Egypt believed Saudi-born Osama Bin Laden financed the 1997 attack by militants in Luxor in which 58 foreigners, most of them Swiss, were killed.
Date of source: Saturday, May 1, 1999
There has currently been extensive talk about continued confrontation with the Jihad underground organization, which is the most dangerous terrorist group. The organization has been receiving heavy blows inside and outside the country. The current period of time has witnessed the handing over to...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 to Wednesday, May 12, 1999
The so-called Returnees from Albania trial - the largest in the stream of military trials of Islamist militants since the assassination of President Sadat in 1981 - ended on 18 April with the usual cocktail of death sentences, prison terms and acquittals.
Date of source: Thursday, April 22, 1999 to Wednesday, April 28, 1999
Of the 107 defendants tried at the Hike Step military camp, 78 were given prison sentences, 11 of whom were condemned for life. Twenty were acquitted. The remaining 9 were sentenced to death in absentia.
Date of source: Thursday, April 8, 1999 to Wednesday, April 14, 1999
Only two days after Egypt’s largest militant Islamist organization, Al-Gama’a Al-Islameyya, announced its decision to stop all anti-government attacks, the underground Islamic Jihad said in a statement that it would continue the "struggle", mainly against the United States and Israel.
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.