Jihadist organizations: Al-Qaeda, Taliban, Hamas, Hezbollah, Jemaah Islamiyah, Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Abu Sayyaf, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, Al-Shabaab, Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Fatah al-Islam, Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 141. Chapters: Al-Qaeda, Taliban, Hamas, Hezbollah, Jemaah Islamiyah, Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Abu Sayyaf, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, Al-Shabaab, Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Fatah al-Islam, Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin, Bosnian mujahideen, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, East Turkestan Islamic Movement, Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, Indian Mujahideen, Islamic State of Iraq, Armed Islamic Group of Algeria, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Islamic Jihad Organization, Students Islamic Movement of India, Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, Ansar al-Islam, Hizbul Islam, Turkish Hezbollah, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna, Laskar Jihad, Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami, Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front, Islamic Army in Iraq, Shariat Jamaat, Yarmuk Jamaat, 1920 Revolution Brigade, Mujahideen Shura Council, Mujahedeen KOMPAK, Jamaat ul-Fuqra, Hamas of Iraq, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Al-Mukmin Islamic school, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, Al-Badr, Safdar Nagori, Takfir wal-Hijra, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh, Ummah Tameer-e-Nau, Maktab al-Khidamat, Mujahideen Army, Ingush Jamaat, Caucasian Front, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, Eritrean Islamic Jihad, Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, Islamic Jihad Union, Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group, Kataib al-Khoul, Union of Mujahadin, Muaskar Anole, Ras Kamboni Brigades, Lashkar-e-Islam, Jabhatul Islamiya, Jama'at al-Jihad al-Islami, Hizbul Mujahideen, Muslim United Liberation Tigers of Assam, Abdullah Azzam Shaheed Brigade, United Jihad Council, Jundallah, Al-Quds Brigades, Hezbollah Al-Hejaz, Islamic Movement of Central Asia, Lashkar-e-Omar, Hizb-an-Nusra, Abu Theeb, Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine, Aden-Abyan Islamic Army, Islamic Front for Armed Jihad, Hizb-e-Abu Omar, Victorious Sect, Qibla, Wakefulness and Holy War, Fursan-i-Mohammed. Excerpt: Connection Timeout Al-Qaeda ( -d¿ or -d¿; Arabic: ¿, , "the base" or "the foundation"), alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida, is a global militant Islamist group founded by Osama bin Laden sometime between August 1988 and late 1989. It operates as a network comprising both a multinational, stateless army and a radical Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad. Al-Qaeda has attacked civilian and military targets in various countries, such as the September 11 attacks, Beslan school hostage crisis, US embassy bombings and Bali bombings. The U.S. government responded by launching the War on Terror. Al-Qaeda has continued to exist and grow through the decade from 2001 to 2011. Characteristic techniques include suicide attacks and simultaneous bombings of different targets. Activities ascribed to it may involve members of the movement, who have taken a pledge of loyalty to Osama bin Laden, or the much more numerous "al-Qaeda-linked" individuals who have undergone training in one of its camps in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq or Sudan, but not taken any pledge. Al-Qaeda ideologues envision a complete break from the foreign influences in Muslim countries, and the creation of a new Islamic caliphate. Reported beliefs include that a Christian-Jewish alliance is conspiring to destroy Islam, which is largely embodied in the U.S.-Israel alliance, and that the killing of bystanders and civilians is religiously justified in jihad. Al-Qaeda is also responsible for instigating sectarian violence among Muslims. Al-Qaeda is intolerant of non-Sunni bra...