Tag: Islamist
Gaza Islamist leader AbdelLatif Moussa killed in Rafah shootout that kills 22
The Telegraph August 15, 2009.
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Abdel-Latif Moussa, the leader of a radical Islamist group in the Gaza Strip, has been killed during a gun battle with security forces that killed 22 people. The fighting erupted on Friday night when Hamas security men surrounded a mosque in the southern Gaza town of Rafah on the Egypt border where about 100 members of Jund Ansar Allah, or the Soldiers of the Companions of God, were hiding out.
Fighting the Pakistani Taliban: A necessary catastrophe
The Economist May 27, 2009.
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To fight militancy, Pakistan needs to conquer its radicalized north-west, then govern it.
Somali executed for ‘apostasy’
January 16, 2009.
BBC News
An Islamist militia has executed a Somali politician who they accused of betraying his religion by working with non-Muslim Ethiopian forces.
