The Islamic Jihad Organization was a Lebanese Shia militia behind the 1983 bombings of the US embassy and MNF peacekeeping barracks in Beirut. Through 2015 the opening called it "a Shia Islamist militia known for its activities in the 1980s." Today the opening calls it only "a Lebanese Shia militia," the word Islamist surviving three times in the body. A reader today learns the militia was Shia and does not learn that Wikipedia's own text once called it Islamist.
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Islamic Jihad Organization was the name used in the 1980's by telephone callers demanding the departure of all Americans from Lebanon and taking responsibility for a number of kidnappings and of bombings in Lebanon which killed several hundred people. Their deadliest attacks were the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing of French and U.S. MNF peacekeeping troops, and the April 1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut . Whether this Islamic Jihad was a nom de guerre used by Hezbollah or a separate organization, is disputed.1
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The Islamic Jihad Organization – IJO ( , Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami ) or Organisation du Jihad Islamique ( OJI ) in French , but best known as "Islamic Jihad" (Arabic: Jihad al-Islami ) for short, was a Shia Islamist militia known for its activities in the 1980s during the Lebanese Civil War .They demanded the departure of all Americans from Lebanon and took responsibility for a number of kidnappings , assassinations, and bombings of embassies and peacekeeping troops which killed several hundred people.Their deadliest attacks were in 1983, when they carried out bombing of the barracks of French and U.S.MNF peacekeeping troops, and of the United States embassy in Beirut .
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The Islamic Jihad Organization – IJO ( , Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami ) or Organisation du Jihad Islamique ( OJI ) in French , but best known as "Islamic Jihad" (Arabic: Jihad al-Islami ) for short, was a Shia militia known for its activities in the 1980s during the Lebanese Civil War . They demanded the departure of all Americans from Lebanon and took responsibility for a number of kidnappings , assassinations, and bombings of embassies and peacekeeping troops which killed several hundred people. Their deadliest attacks were in 1983, when they carried out the bombing of the barracks of French and U.S. MNF peacekeeping troops, and that of the United States embassy in Beirut .
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Lebanese Shia militia This article is about the former Lebanese Shia faction.The Islamic Jihad Organization ( IJO ; ( OJI ); ), was a Lebanese Shia militia known for its activities in the 1980s during the Lebanese Civil War . They demanded the departure of all Americans from Lebanon and took responsibility for a number of kidnappings , assassinations, and bombings of embassies and peacekeeping troops which killed several hundred people. Their deadliest attacks were in 1983, when they carried out the bombing of the barracks of French and U.S. MNF peacekeeping troops, and that of the United States embassy in Beirut . Adam Shatz described Islamic Jihad as "a precursor to Hezbollah , which did not yet officially exist" at the time of the bombing it took credit for.
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1983–1992 Lebanese Shia militia This article is about the former Lebanese Shia faction. The Islamic Jihad Organization ( IJO ; French : Organisation du Jihad Islamique ( OJI ); Arabic : حركة الجهاد الإسلامي , romanized : Ḥarakat al-Jihād al-'Islāmiyy , lit. ' Islamic Jihad Movement ' ) was a Lebanese Shia militia known for its activities in the 1980s during the Lebanese Civil War .The organization, advocating for the withdrawal of all Americans from Lebanon, claimed responsibility for a number of kidnappings , assassinations, and bombings of embassies and peacekeeping troops which killed several hundred people. Their deadliest attacks were in 1983, when they carried out the bombing of the barracks of French and U.S. MNF peacekeeping troops, and that of the United States embassy in Beirut . Adam Shatz described Islamic Jihad as "a precursor to Hezbollah, which did not yet officially exist" at the time of the bombing it took credit for. Historical Dictionary of Lebanon .Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East (2nd ed.).
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