"and was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter. In May 2014, Peden, 28, pleaded guilty to malice murder and received a life sentence that includes the possibility of parole after at least 30 years in prison. FEAR (terrorist group) The FEAR militia (Forever Enduring, Always Ready) was an American terrorist group of between four and eleven individuals that the State of Georgia alleged in 2012 to have planned to destroy a dam and poison apple orchards in Washington State, set off explosives in Forsyth Park in Savannah, Georgia, and assassinate President Barack Obama. Four"
"Hassan-i Sabbah Hassan-e Sabbāh (mistakenly Hassan-i Sabbāh Persian: حسن صباح ""Hasan-e Sabbāh"") or Hassan as-Sabbāh (Arabic: حسن الصباح ""Ḥasan aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ"") (circa 1050–1124) was the leader of the Nizārī Ismā‘īlītes and the founder of the order known as Assassins. Assassins, who are often referred to as the ""Hashshashin"", was a group of fedayeen. Hassan-e Sabbāh was a missionary who converted the Nizari in the late 11th century in the heart of the Alborz Mountains of northern Persia. He later seized a mountain fortress called Alamut. Hassan is thought to have written an autobiography, which did not survive but seems to underlie"
"It referred to a group of Nizari Shia Muslims who worked against various political targets. Founded by Hassan-i Sabbah, the Assassins were active in the fortress of Alamut in Persia from the 8th to the 14th centuries, and later expanded by capturing forts in Syria. The group killed members of the Abbasid, Seljuq, Fatimid, and Christian Crusader elite for political and religious reasons. Although it is commonly believed that Assassins were under the influence of hashish during their killings or during their indoctrination, there is debate as to whether these claims have merit, with many Eastern writers and an increasing"
"Assassins Order of Assassins or simply Assassins is the common name used to refer to an Islamic sect formally known as the Nizari Ismailis. Based on texts from Alamut, their grand master Hassan-i Sabbah tended to call his disciples Asāsiyyūn (أساسيون, meaning ""people who are faithful to the foundation [of the faith]""), but some foreign travellers like Marco Polo misunderstood the name as deriving from the term hashish. Often described as a secret order led by a mysterious ""Old Man of the Mountain"", the Nizari Ismailis formed in the late 11th century after a split within Ismailism – a branch"
"resistance struggle. Their slogan is Shia sunni itehad (shia sunni unity) Al Jihad Al Jihad (THEN DO JIHAD) Pasban e Islam Pasban-e-Islam (or Hizb ul momineen) is an outlawed Pakistani Shi'a extremist group. It was linked with two bombings in Multan on 7 October 2004, in which 40 people died. Other sources linked Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan with the bombing. Pasban e Islam traces its origins to the Tehrik-Nifaz-e-Fiqh-e-Jafaria (Movement for the Implementation of Jafaria Religious Law).Pasban e Islam has a branch called Hizb Ul momineen which were active in Kashmir in 1990-1996.They Fought against the cruelities of India, Their aim was"
"an offshoot of the Isma'ili sect of Shia Muslims. Led by Hassan-i Sabbah and opposed to Fatimid rule, the Hashshashin militia seized Alamut and other fortress strongholds across Persia. Hashshashin forces were too small to challenge enemies militarily, so they assassinated city governors and military commanders in order to create alliances with militarily powerful neighbors. For example, they killed Janah al-Dawla, ruler of Homs, to please Ridwan of Aleppo, and assassinated Mawdud, Seljuk emir of Mosul, as a favor to the regent of Damascus. The Hashshashin also carried out assassinations as retribution. Under some definitions of terrorism, such assassinations do"
"doeth this shall pay the penalty."" The term ""assassin"" derives from Hashshashin, a militant Ismaili Shi'ite sect, active from the 8th to 14th centuries. This mystic secret society killed members of the Abbasid, Fatimid, Seljuq and Crusader elite for political and religious reasons. The Thuggee cult that plagued India was devoted to Kali, the goddess of death and destruction. According to some estimates the Thuggees murdered 1 million people between 1740 and 1840. The Aztecs believed that without regular offerings of blood the sun god Huitzilopochtli would withdraw his support for them and destroy the world as they knew it."
"of Shia Islam. The Nizaris posed a strategic threat to Sunni Seljuq authority by capturing and inhabiting several mountain fortresses throughout Persia and later Syria, under the leadership of Hassan-i Sabbah. Asymmetric warfare, psychological warfare, and surgical strikes were often a tactic of the assassins, drawing their opponents into submission rather than risk killing them. While ""Assassins"" typically refers to the entire sect, only a group of acolytes known as the ""fida'i"" actually engaged in conflict. Lacking their own army, the Nizari relied on these warriors to carry out espionage and assassinations of key enemy figures, and over the course"
"to the Near East. While he assembled the accounts of many Western travellers, the author failed to explain the etymology of the term Assassin. According to the Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf, based on texts from Alamut, Hassan-i Sabbah tended to call his disciples ""Asāsīyūn"" (, meaning ""people who are faithful to the foundation [of the faith]""), and derivation from the term ""hashish"" is a misunderstanding by foreign travelers. Another modern author, Edward Burman, states that: The name ""Assassin"" is often said to derive from the Arabic word ""Hashishin"" or ""users of hashish"",(which can be used as a derogatory term in"
"followers to “seek jihad against Jews” and their supporters. He also called for jihad against America and the West, and labeled Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, King Abdullah II of Jordan and King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia as the “brothers of Satan.” In an audio recording released on May 20, 2010 that the recently slain leaders of the group's offshoot in Iraq Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi. It was the first message broadcast since December. Al-Zawahiri likened the slain leaders to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian-born militant who created the group and was killed in a 2006"
"concepts of ""near enemy"" and ""far enemy"". ""Near enemy"" connotes the despotic regime occupying the Muslim society, and the term was coined by Mohammed Abdul-Salam Farag in order to justify the assassination of Anwar al-Sadat by the Salafi Jihadi organization Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) in 1981. Later, the concept of ""far enemy"" which connotes the West was introduced and formally declared by al-Qaeda in 1996. Salafi Jihadism emerged out during the 80s when the Soviet invaded Afghanistan. Local mujahideen had extracted financial, logistical and military support from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the United States. Later, Osama bin Laden established al-Qaeda"
"class is a common feature of many such games, usually specializing in single combat and stealth skills, often combined in order to defeat an opponent without exposing the assassin to counter-attack. Assassins Order of Assassins or simply Assassins is the common name used to refer to an Islamic sect formally known as the Nizari Ismailis. Based on texts from Alamut, their grand master Hassan-i Sabbah tended to call his disciples Asāsiyyūn (أساسيون, meaning ""people who are faithful to the foundation [of the faith]""), but some foreign travellers like Marco Polo misunderstood the name as deriving from the term hashish. Often"
"by their activities and Later, the almost identical borrowed term assassin(s) used in several languages to describe similar activities anywhere. The Assassins were finally linked by the 19th-century orientalist scholar Silvestre de Sacy to the Arabic word ""hashish"" using their variant names ""assassin"" and ""assissini"" in the 19th century. Citing the example of one of the first written applications of the Arabic term ""hashish"" to the Ismailis by 13th-century historian Abu Shama, de Sacy demonstrated its connection to the name given to the Ismailis throughout Western scholarship. The first known usage of the term ""hashishi"" has been traced back to"
"of the United States, Britain and their state and non-state mercenaries. All Muslims are required to combat and confront this evil and sinister offspring which is the epitome of corruption on earth and of waging war against God. [This] bloody incident [was carried out by] devious, bigoted Wahabis with the support and plotting of foreign spy organizations. The Shiite and Sunni thinkers in all Islamic and Arab countries should define the wicked intentions of the enemies which is to instigate sectarian terrorism for all and prevent them (Muslim nations) from the great danger of religious unrest. [Iran was the] target"
"in the 9/11 attacks. A British terrorist of Pakistani descent named Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who worked for the Pakistani ISI, was instructed to wire $100,000 before the 9/11 attacks to Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jul/22/usa.september11 Other terrorist organizations that had ties to Al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden are Harkat-ul-mujahideen and Lashkar-e-Taiba. Harkat- ul- Mujahideen was set up in the 1980's by the Pakistani ISI to fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan and later on against India. Bruce O Riedel a former CIA officer and the author of a book called ""Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America, and the future of"
"author suggests that the origin of the name Assassin is the Turkish word ""hashhash"" meaning opium, partly on the basis that this drug is more suitable for producing the effects suggested in the legends than hashish. During the mid-12th century the Assassins captured or acquired several fortresses in the Nusayriyah Mountain Range in coastal Syria, including Masyaf, Rusafa, al-Kahf, al-Qadmus, Khawabi, Sarmin, Quliya, Ulayqa, Maniqa, Abu Qubays and Jabal al-Summaq. For the most part, the Assassins maintained full control over these fortresses until 1270–73 when the Mamluk sultan Baibars annexed them. Most were dismantled afterwards, while those at Masyaf and"
"women as well, and they died"". A Nizari assassin is identified as ""fedāʾī"" or devotee, ""who offers his life for others or in the service of a particular cause"". Historians and scholars identify Hassan-i Sabbah as the founder of the Nizari Assassins and their doctrine. It developed during the struggle for succession of Nizar to the Fatimid throne in Cairo that eventually laid the foundation of the Nizāri Ismā‘ilī Shia Islam. Since then, as a basic element of conservative nature, the Ismaili Imamate includes a ""hidden"" imam, in addition to the visible (or ""hazar"", meaning apparent) ""imam of the time"","
"Osbat al-Ansar Osbat al-Ansar or Asbat an-Ansar (, meaning ""League of the Partisans"") is a Sunni fundamentalist group established in the early 1990s, with a primary base of operations in the Palestinian camp of Ain al-Hilwah refugee camp near Sidon, which claims professing the Salafi form of Islam and the overthrow of the Lebanese-dominated secular government. It has been designated as a terrorist group by the United Nations, Canada, Russia, the UAE, the United Kingdom and the United States. It is on the United States' list of terrorist organizations for alleged connections with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda, and the American"
"portion of Syrians, who were called ""Nazerini"". However, scholars are reluctant to link between Nazerini and Nazarenes. Yet, the term ""Nazerini"" (""Nazerinorum"") can be possibly connected to words which include the Semitic triliteral root ""n-ṣ-r"" such as the subject ""naṣer"" in Eastern Aramaic which means """"keeper of wellness"""". Ibn Nusayr and his followers are considered the founders of the sect. After the death of the Eleventh Imam, al-Askari, problems emerged in the Shia Community concerning his succession, and then Ibn Nusayr claimed to be the Bab and Ism of the deceased Imam and that he received his secret teachings. Ibn"
"Pasban e Islam Pasban-e-Islam (or Hizb ul momineen) is an outlawed Pakistani Shi'a extremist group. It was linked with two bombings in Multan on 7 October 2004, in which 40 people died. Other sources linked Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan with the bombing. Pasban e Islam traces its origins to the Tehrik-Nifaz-e-Fiqh-e-Jafaria (Movement for the Implementation of Jafaria Religious Law).Pasban e Islam has a branch called Hizb Ul momineen which were active in Kashmir in 1990-1996.They Fought against the cruelities of India, Their aim was to establish the govt that was in the period of Imam Ali, son of Abu Talib. They were"
"rabbi Haim Drukman, is said to have exclaimed, citing the Song of Deborah, ""Thus, may all Israel's enemies perish!"" In retaliation for the murder of Aharon Gross, a student in a Hebron satellite yeshivah of Mercaz HaRav Kook, in an operation masterminded by Livni, three operatives of the group, Shaul Nir, Barak Nir, and Uzi Sharbaf, wearing ski masks, launched an attack on the Islamic College in Hebron on July 26, 1983. On arriving at the target, off a crowded Hebron street, Nir fired two bursts from his Kalashnikov in the air to signal that the area was clear. Uzi"
"doctrines for his Order, Sabbah would never leave his fortress again in his lifetime. He had established a secret society of deadly assassins, which was built on a hierarchical structure. Below Sabbah, the Grand Headmaster of the Order, were those known as ""Greater Propagandists"", followed by the normal ""Propagandists"", the Rafiqs (""Companions""), and the Lasiqs (""Adherents""). It was the Lasiqs who were trained to become some of the most feared assassins, or as they were called, ""Fida'in"" (self-sacrificing agents). However, it is unknown how Hassan-i-Sabbah was able to get his ""Fida'in"" to perform with such fervent loyalty. One theory, possibly"
"attacks on oil infrastructure and also murdered Saudi diplomats in Ankara, Bangkok, and Karachi. They were also allegedly involved in 1996 Khobar Towers bombing which killed dozens of US army personnel. Some of its members went through training in Iran. The group also is thought to use Iranian training camps in the Biqa' valley in Lebanon. The group throughout the 80's and the 90's became notorious for killing Saudi police and army men, Wahhabi preachers, people from the interior ministry and intelligence as well as conducting specialized attacks on the ARAMCO facilities refinery and the Saudi naval forces. During the"
"Shaitan The word ""Šayṭān"" () originates from the Hebrew ""()"" ""accuser, adversary"" (which is the source of the English ""Satan""). However Arabic etymology relates the word to the root š-ṭ-n (""distant, astray"") taking a theological connotation designating a creature distant from divine mercy. The term ""Shaitan"" may either be translated as ""demon"" or as ""devil"". In pre-Islamic Arabia this term was used to designate an evil jinn. With the emergence of Islam the meaning of ""shayatin"" moved closer to the Christian concept of devils. As jinn, the ""shayatin"" share the characteristics of invisibility. Some scholars put them merely under one"
"against Shiite religious targets and Sunni civilians. He had also attacked UN representatives and the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad (August 2003) and killed or beheaded nine foreign hostages (May–October 2004). In October 2004, Zarqawi pledged ""bay'ah"" (allegiance) to Osama bin Laden, and renamed his group ""Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn"", more popularly known as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), or al-Qaeda in the Land of Two Rivers, or al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia. Killings continued as before. In January 2006, AQI became part of a larger umbrella organization Mujahideen Shura Council (MSC). On 13 October 2006, MSC declared the establishment of Islamic"
"were used to kill, and sometimes as a warning, a knife would be placed on the pillow of a Sunni, who understood the message to mean that he was marked for death. When an assassination was actually carried out, the Hashasheen would not be allowed to run away; instead, to strike further fear into the enemy, they would stand near the victim without showing any emotion and departed only when the body was discovered. This further increased the ruthless reputation of the Hashasheen throughout Sunni-controlled lands. The English word, assassination, is said to have been derived from the Arabic word"
"to the Fatimid caliphate. There has been great difficulty finding out much information about the origins of the Assassins because most early sources are written by enemies of the order, are based on legends, or both. Most sources dealing with the order's inner workings were destroyed with the capture of Alamut, the Assassins' headquarters, by the Mongols in 1256. However, it is possible to trace the beginnings of the cult back to its first Grandmaster, Hassan-i Sabbah (1050s–1124). A passionate devotee of Isma'ili beliefs, Hassan-i Sabbah was well-liked throughout Cairo, Syria and most of the Middle East by other Isma'ili,"
"of your income with the poor, provided that the poor in question are Muslim. The modern term of ""mujahideen"" referring to spiritual Muslim warriors, originates in the 19th century when the local people of Afghanistan fought against the invading British (although initially the British derogatorally called them the ""Sitana Fanatics""). It began in 1829 when a religious man, Sayyid Ahmed Shah Brelwi, came back to the village of Sitana from a pilgrimage to Mecca and began preaching war against the infidels in the area defining the Northwest border of British India. Although he died in battle, the sect he had"
"assail the West, ""cut the transportation of their countries, tear it apart, destroy their economy, burn their companies, eliminate their interests, sink their ships, shoot down their planes, kill them on the sea, air, or land"". Preaching at three mosques in the New York City area, Abdel-Rahman was soon surrounded by a core group of devoted followers that included persons who would soon be responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which took place five weeks into the Bill Clinton administration. One of Abdel-Rahman's followers, El Sayyid Nosair, was linked to the 1990 Manhattan assassination of Israeli nationalist Rabbi"
"clash in a forested area near Soliman. Among those killed was the leader of the group, Lassaad Sassi, a former Tunisian policeman who had spent time in Afghanistan and headed a terror network based in Milan, Italy. Sassi's group had reportedly established training camps in the mountains in Djebel Ressas and Boukornine south of the Tunisian capital. According to French daily ""Le Parisien"" at least 60 people were killed in the clashes. It was later revealed that the Islamists had been in possession of blueprints of foreign embassies as possible targets. The attacks were the most serious by Islamists in"
"organisations. Their motto emerged as 'Salafism in doctrine, modernity in confrontation. Antecedents of Salafism jihadism include Islamist author Sayyid Qutb, who developed ""the intellectual underpinnings"" of the ideology. Qutb argued that the world had reached a crisis point and that the Islamic world has been replaced by pagan ignorance of ""Jahiliyyah"". The group Takfir wal-Hijra, who kidnapped and murdered an Egyptian ex-government minister in 1978, inspired some of ""the tactics and methods"" used by Al Qaeda. In Afghanistan the Taliban were of the Deobandi, not Salafi, school of Islam but ""cross-fertilized"" with bin Laden and other Salafist jihadis. Seth Jones"
"to his execution, and is still made by his Muslim detractors. Qutb died before he could clear up the issue of whether jahiliyyah referred to the whole ""Muslim world,"" to only Muslim governments, or only in an allegorical sense, but a serious campaign of terror – or ""physical power and jihad"" against ""the organizations and authorities"" of ""jahili"" Egypt – by insurgents observers believed to be influenced by Qutb followed in the 1980s and 1990s. Victims included Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, head of the counter-terrorism police Major General Raouf Khayrat, parliamentary speaker Rifaat el-Mahgoub, dozens of European tourists and Egyptian"
"the suicide of the perpetrators and towards their use as weapons by their commanders. The 1st Century AD Jewish Sicarii sect are thought to have carried out suicidal attacks against Hellenized Jews they considered immoral collaborators. The Islamic Hashishiyeen (Assassins) sect of Ismaili Shi'a Muslims assassinated two caliphs, and many viziers, sultans and Crusader leaders over the course of 300 years, before being annihilated by Mongol invaders. Hashishiyeen were known for their targeting of the powerful, their use of the dagger as a weapon (rather than something safer for the assassin such as a crossbow), and for making no attempt"