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  • May 2008

    • US Victims of Attacks in Israel Sue Swiss Bank

      Reuters  |  May 13, 08 8:47 AM CDT

      US Victims of Attacks in Israel Sue Swiss Bank

      (Newser) - American victims of attacks in Israel are suing Switzerland's biggest bank for helping fund militants by providing money to Iran, Reuters reports. The lawsuit says UBS AG gave loans to Iran even though it supports Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad. The plaintiffs seek $500 million in damages for some 50 US citizens who were hurt or whose relatives were killed in attacks between 1997 and 2006. More »

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      Iran  • Israel  • Hamas  • Hezbollah  • bank  • Switzerland  • UBS  • Islamic Jihad  • militia

  • April 2008

    • Palestinian Factions OK Israel Truce Proposal

      AFP  |  Apr 30, 08 2:19 PM CDT

      Palestinian Factions OK Israel Truce Proposal

      (Newser) - Twelve Palestinian militant groups have agreed to a proposal for a truce with Israel, already backed by Hamas and Fatah. Egypt, mediating talks, will now try to sell the plan to Israel, AFP reports. The proposal calls for a "comprehensive, simultaneous, and reciprocal period of calm to be applied progressively, first in Gaza and then in the West Bank." More »

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      Gaza Strip  • Arab Israeli conflict  • Palestinians  • Islamic Jihad

  • March 2008

    • Islamic Groups Reject Truce in Egypt Peace Talks

      Reuters  |  Mar 27, 08 3:49 PM CDT

      Islamic Groups Reject Truce in Egypt Peace Talks

      (Newser) - Egypt’s talks with Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, aimed at establishing a truce with Israel, ended unsuccessfully today, Reuters reports. The militant groups demanded Israel stop Gaza and West Bank raids, end its Gaza blockade, and reopen border-crossings. Hamas and Israel already appear to have instituted a de facto ceasefire, Reuters notes. Islamic Jihad continues to fire rockets into Israel. More »

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      Israel  • Hamas  • Palestine  • Mahmoud Abbas  • Gaza Strip  • Egypt  • peace talks  • Islamic Jihad  • Gaza blockade

    • Jihad Rockets Hit Israel After Raid

      Haaretz (Israel)  |  Mar 13, 08 7:44 AM CDT

      Jihad Rockets Hit Israel After Raid

      (Newser) - A week-long moratorium on rocket attacks in Israel exploded today when the militant group Islamic Jihad fired two rockets into the town of Sderot on the Gaza border. Nobody was injured in the attack. The radical Palestinian group claims its rocket launch was in retaliation for a raid by the Israelis in the West Bank yesterday, which claimed four lives, reports Haaretz . More »

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      Israel  • Hamas  • Palestine  • Israel and Palestinians  • West Bank  • Gaza Strip  • rocket attacks  • Islamic Jihad  • Ismail Haniya  • Sderot

    • Saddam Had No Links to Al-Qaeda: Pentagon Study

      McClatchy Newspapers  |  Mar 11, 08 5:48 AM CDT

      Saddam Had No Links to Al-Qaeda: Pentagon Study

      (Newser) - A Pentagon-sponsored study of captured Iraqi intelligence archives has been unable to find a single operational link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden or his al-Qaeda network, reports the McClatchy newspapers. The study will be released this week and is expected to refuel debate over the US justification for invading Iraq. Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld once described evidence for links between the two as "bulletproof." More »

    • Egypt Hosts Gaza Truce Talks

      Reuters  |  Mar 6, 08 12:44 PM CST

      Egypt Hosts Gaza Truce Talks

      (Newser) - Egypt has begun talks with Hamas and Islamic Jihad in an attempt to broker an end to rocket attacks on Israel and retaliatory Israeli raids in Gaza, Reuters reports. A ceasefire would make it easier for Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas to resume peace talks with Israel. Leaders of the groups met with officials in Egypt today, but were noncommittal, except to say they'd study Egypt's proposal. More »

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      Hamas  • Mahmoud Abbas  • Gaza Strip  • Egypt  • peace talks  • Islamic Jihad  • Mahmoud al-Zahar

  • February 2008

    • Terror Leader Killed in Gaza

      Reuters  |  Feb 15, 08 6:32 PM CST

      Terror Leader Killed in Gaza

      (Newser) - A leading member of terrorist group Islamic Jihad was killed today in the Gaza Strip, Reuters reports. Ayman Fayed and at least seven others were killed in an explosion that leveled a house where Fayed was staying. The Israeli army denied involvement, but Palestinian leaders saw the attack as Israel taking revenge for recent killings there. More »

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      terrorist  • assassination  • Gaza Strip  • Arab Israeli conflict  • airstrike  • Islamic Jihad

  • January 2008

    • Padilla Sentenced to 17 Years

      Miami Herald  |  Jan 22, 08 12:45 PM CST

      Padilla Sentenced to 17 Years

      (Newser) - A federal judge sentenced Jose Padilla to 17 years and 4 months today following his conviction for conspiring to commit murder and otherwise aid Islamic terrorists around the world, the Miami Herald reports. Although the court invoked “terrorism enhancement” to lengthen the sentences of Padilla and his two co-conspirators, prosecutors, who had sought life for Padilla, said they would appeal. More »

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      terrorism  • Patriot Act  • Islamic Jihad  • Jose Padilla

  • December 2007

    • Hamas Seeks Israeli Ceasefire

      Associated Press  |  Dec 19, 07 12:49 PM CST

      Hamas Seeks Israeli Ceasefire

      (Newser) - The leader of Gaza’s Hamas party, weary of months of Israeli airstrikes and sanctions, has appealed for a ceasefire through Israeli media, the AP reports. "The occupation should stop its attacks and siege." In return, Hamas PM Ismail Haniya said in an unprecedented phone call to an Israeli TV station, "a truce would be possible, and not unlikely." More »

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      Hamas  • Ehud Olmert  • Israel and Palestinians  • Gaza Strip  • Islamic Jihad  • Ismail Haniya

    • Israeli Airstrikes Kill 13 in Gaza

      Reuters  |  Dec 18, 07 7:17 AM CST

      Israeli Airstrikes Kill 13 in Gaza

      (Newser) - Israeli airstrikes rained down on Gaza militants today, killing at least 13 in a series of separate attacks, Reuters reports. It was the country’s most intense offensive in months, a response to the frequent but largely ineffectual rocket attacks lobbed across the border. In response, militants threatened a round of suicide bombings, something Israel hasn’t seen in 11 months. More »

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      Israel  • Hamas  • Gaza  • Israel and Palestinians  • Arab Israeli conflict  • Palestinians  • Islamic Jihad

  • October 2007

    • Online Jihad Seeks Western Converts

      New York Times  |  Oct 15, 07 4:00 PM CDT

      Online Jihad Seeks Western Converts

      (Newser) - Jihadists have long used the internet to spread their message, but now a growing number of Western-based extremists are tapping into a Western audience by giving the message a pop-culture twist, the Times reports. They act as middlemen, translating newsletters and relaying videos from militant Islamic leaders; they also turn insurgent footage from Iraq into hip-hop videos.  More »

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      Internet  • blogger  • Islamic extremism  • Islamic Jihad

  • September 2007

    • Rocket Attack Wounds Scores of Israeli Troops

      Haaretz (Israel)  |  Sep 11, 07 4:11 AM CDT

      Rocket Attack Wounds Scores of Israeli Troops

      (Newser) - At least 66 Israeli soldiers were wounded by a Qassam rocket fired into Israeli territory from inside the Gaza strip early today. The missile struck a tent in an Israeli basic training camp in the northern Negev desert near the community of Kibbutz Zikkim, reports Ha'aretz. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. More »

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      Israel  • Gaza  • Gaza Strip  • missile  • Islamic Jihad  • rocket  • Sderot  • IDF  • Qassam

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