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The organization specializes in armed attacks against high-level Egyptian Government personnel, including cabinet ministers, and car-bombings against official US and Egyptian facilities. The original Jihad was responsible for the assassination in 1981 of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. It also claimed responsibility for the attempted assassinations of Interior Minister Hassan al-Alfi in August 1993 and Prime Minister Atef Sedky in November 1993. Egyptian Jihad and rival armed group Jemaah Islamiya launched a wave of violence against Egypt's secular government in 1992, a campaign they only abandoned at the end of the decade. Nearly 1300 people died in the unrest, including policemen, and government officials, foreign tourists and Egyptian Christians. It is responsible for the Egyptian Embassy bombing in Islamabad, Pakistan in 1995; in 19981998 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of the Ocean''. Events January January 1998 A massive ice storm, caused by El Nino, strikes New England, southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting, a planned attack against the US Embassy in AlbaniaAlbania is a country in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Montenegro in the north, Serbia ( Kosovo) in the north-east, the Republic of Macedonia in the east, and Greece in the south, has a coast on the Adriatic Sea in the west, and a coast on the Ion was thwarted.
Al-Sharif passed the Jihad leadership to Ayman al-Zawahri, the lieutenant of al-Qaida's leader Osama bin LadenUsmah bin Muhammad bin `Awad bin Ldin (born March 10, 1957 or July 30, 1957) ( Arabic: ), commonly known as Osama bin Laden , is the head of al-Qaida, a militant Islamist organization that has been involved in terrorist attacks against civilians and milit, amid dissent within the movement in 1991
The Egyptian Islamic Jihad operates in the CairoCairo ( Arabic: ; romanized: al-Qāhirah is the capital city of Egypt and has an estimated metropolitan area population of 15 million. It is the largest city in both Africa and the Middle East and is currently the thirteenth most populous city in the area. It has a network outside Egypt, including Yemen, AfghanistanAfghanistan ( Dari/ Pashtu: Afgnistn is a country in Central Asia. It is bordered by Iran in the west, Pakistan in the south and east, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, and China in the easternmost part of the country. It is among the, Pakistan, SudanAs distinct from the African region of the same name (usually shortened to the Sudan the Republic of the Sudan (or just Sudan is the largest country in Africa, situated in the northeast part of the continent. The capital is Khartoum. It borders Egypt to t, Lebanon, and the United Kingdom.