Arafat's ability to adapt to new tactical and political situations was perhaps tested by the rise of the Hamas and PIJ organizations, Islamist groups espousing rejectionist policies with Israel.

He also established the Islamic Committee for Palestine ( ICP ) on October 20, 1988, purportedly to raise awareness of the plight of the Palestinians ; allegedly, however, it was part of a criminal enterprise with PIJ.

Allegedly, however, it also was part of a criminal enterprise with PIJ.

He was Chairman of the Board of the Islamic Academy of Florida ( IAF ) from its August 1992 founding until at least June 2002 ; allegedly, it was used by the PIJ to provide some of its members as cover as employees.

Al-Arian said that the letter was a response to a friend's question about the relationship between PIJ and Hamas, and whether to support them, and that in his letter: " I ask others to support them, but I don't support them personally.

In 1995, the FBI opened a criminal investigation of Al-Arian after Ramadan Abdullah Mohammad Shallah, a professor whom he had helped bring to Tampa and appointed head of WISE, suddenly left after the PIJ's head was killed, and re-emerged in Syria one month later on October 31, 1995, as the new head of the PIJ.

On September 26, 2001, he appeared on The O ' Reilly Factor talk show, and Bill O ' Reilly asked him about his connections to PIJ head Ramadan Abdullah Shallah and to Tarik Hamdi, a former manager of WISE who was linked to al-Qaeda during the trial of four men convicted in the 1998 bombings of U. S. embassies in East Africa, and who set up an interview for Osama bin Laden with ABC.

It also charged three others living in the U. S., as well as four outside the U. S. These included Al-Arian's long-time top USF / WISE associate Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, who had been designated a Specially Designated Terrorist by the U. S. in 1995, and was accused of being Secretary General of the PIJ.

The indictment alleged a ten-year conspiracy to support PIJ worldwide, help solve internal PIJ disputes and financial problems, help disseminate PIJ claims it was responsible for terrorist attacks in Israel, and raise funds within the U. S. for " violent jihad.

At trial, FBI agent Kerry Myers testified that the PIJ had planned an attack inside the U. S., but that all information about the plot was classified and he could not discuss it.

Furthermore, some of the conversations occurred before PIJ was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 1995.

" But one of the few jurors who believed Al-Arian was guilty on nine counts, causing a mistrial, said: Like another person on the jury, I was convinced Mr. Al-Arian was still working with the PIJ after it was illegal.

Homeland Security agent David Kane described alleged ties between Al-Arian and IIIT in an affidavit that was unsealed in 2003, saying that IIIT was once the largest contributor to a PIJ group run by Al-Arian.

He said that Al-Arian was an Islamic extremist, and headed the Palestine Islamic Jihad ( PIJ ) in the U. S. In 2006, Al-Arian pleaded guilty to aiding the PIJ, a terrorist organization, and was sentenced to 57 months in prison.

Iran provided weapons, training, and funding to Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups, including the Palestine Islamic Jihad ( PIJ ) and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command ( PFLP-GC ).

After a terrorist attack by PIJ killed 19 Israelis, Al-Arian wrote a February 1, 1995, letter saying: The link with the brothers in Hamas is very good and making steady progress, and their are serious attempts at unification and permanent coordination.

In 1995 the PIJ, Syrian-based and largely financed by Iran, had been designated a " Specially Designated Terrorist " by the U. S., and in 1997 it had been designated a " foreign terrorist organization ".

It charged Al-Arian with: 1 ) conspiracy to commit racketeering ; 2 ) conspiracy to murder or maim persons outside the U. S .; 3 ) conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization ( the PIJ ); 4 ) conspiracy to make and receive contributions of funds, goods, and services for the benefit of Specially Designated Terrorists ( the PIJ ); 5 ) use of the mail or any facility in interstate or foreign commerce to promote unlawful activity ; 6 ) providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization ; 7 ) money laundering ; 8 ) attempt to procure naturalization unlawfully ; and 9 ) obstruction of justice.

* Iran has increasingly encouraged and supported — with money, training, and weapons — terrorist groups such as Hizballah, HAMAS, the PIJ, and Ahmed Jibril's PFLP-GC.

On February 28, 2006, Al-Arian signed a plea agreement in which he agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to contribute services to or for the benefit of the PIJ, a Specially Designated Terrorist organization, in violation of 18 U. S. C.

The al-Quds Brigades ( in Arabic, Saraya al-Quds ) is the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad ( PIJ ).

As the Intifada came to a close, new armed Palestinian groups — in particular Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad ( PIJ )— began targeting Israeli civilians with the new tactic of suicide bombing and internal fighting amongst the Palestinians increased dramatically.

On April 17, 1991, he allegedly gave a speech in which he again spoke in favor of jihad, and praised individuals who had escaped from prison with the help of the PIJ, and then killed a number of people.

Al-Arian performed services for the PIJ in 1995 and thereafter, knowing that it achieved its objectives by violence, among other means, and that it had been declared a Specially Designated Terrorist by the U. S. Among other things, he filed for immigration benefits for people associated with the PIJ, hid the identities of individuals associated with the PIJ, and provided assistance to a person associated with the PIJ in a U. S. court proceeding.

A 50-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Tampa charged the defendants under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ) with operating a racketeering enterprise from 1984 that engaged in violent activities, as well as: conspiracy within the U. S. to kill and maim persons abroad, conspiracy to provide material support and resources to PIJ, conspiracy to violate emergency economic sanctions, engaging in various acts of interstate extortion, perjury, obstruction of justice, and immigration fraud.

Describing the PIJ suicide bombings, the judge said: " Anyone with even the slightest bit of human compassion would be sickened.

The external leadership of Hamas, the Palestine Islamic Jihad ( PIJ ), the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PLFP ), and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command ( PFLP-GC ), among others, were based in Damascus and operated within Syria's borders.

It also alleged that the defendants used USF, where some of them were teachers or students, as cover and as a means to bring other PIJ members into the U. S., purportedly for academic meetings and conferences.

Al-Arian admitted knowing " that the PIJ achieved its objectives by, among other means, acts of violence.

On February 20, 2003, the U. S. Department of Justice announced that Al-Arian had been arrested as the alleged leader of the Palestine Islamic Jihad ( PIJ ) in the U. S., and Secretary of the PIJ's central worldwide governing group ( the " Shura Council ").

There was a peculiar density about it, a thick substance that could be sensed but never identified, never actually perceived.

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

They had been fed a hunting breakfast, so called because a kedgeree, the dish identified with fox hunting, was on the bill.

It was among these that Hinkle identified a photograph of Barco!!

The radio emission of a planet was first detected in 1955, when Burke and Franklin ( 1955 ) identified the origin of interference-like radio noise on their records at about 15 meters wave length as emission from Jupiter.

The most conclusively identified is L-5-vinyl-2-thio-oxazolidone, which was isolated from rutabaga ( Greer, 1950 ).

If the bottom name in each column did not have a responsible executive identified, the next name above which identified such a responsible executive was substituted.

Each questionnaire was audited for obvious mistakes and for comments, and was identified by a serial number, by the source list from which the company name was selected, and by the geographical location of the company as determined by the postmark on the return envelope.

In order to be able to properly relate the data for a single company each of the three cards comprising the set for each firm was identified with the appropriate serial number of the respondent.

If anti-Semitism was on trial in Jerusalem, why was it not identified, and with enough emphasis to capture the notice of the world press, in its connection with the activities of Eichmann's Department of Jewish Affairs, as exemplified by the betrayal and murder of Jews by non-police and non-party anti-Semites in Germany, as well as in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary??

The motorist later was identified as Richard Sarkees, 17, of 2433 McClellan, currently on probation and under court order not to drive.

The dead youth was identified as Robert E. Sims, 19, of 1688 Oak Knoll Cir., Aj.

The meaning of the epithet " Lyceus " later became associated Apollo's mother Leto, who was the patron goddes of Lycia ( Λυκία ) and who was identified with the wolf ( λύκος ), earning him the epithets Lycegenes ( ; Λυκηγενής, Lukēgenēs, literally " born of a wolf " or " born of Lycia ") and Lycoctonus ( ; Λυκοκτόνος, Lukoktonos, from λύκος, " wolf ", and κτείνειν, " to kill ").

Apollo's sister Artemis, who was the Greek goddess of hunting, is identified with Britomartis ( Diktynna ), the Minoan " Mistress of the animals ".

Aquarius is also sometimes identified with Ganymede, a youth in Greek mythology who was taken to Mount Olympus by Zeus to act as cup-carrier to the gods.

The general consensus amongst scholars is that Luwian was spoken — to a greater or lesser degree — across a large area of western Anatolia, including ( possibly ) Wilusa (= Troy ), the Seha River Land ( to be identified with the Hermos and / or Kaikos valley ), and the kingdom of Mira-Kuwaliya with its core territory of the Maeander valley.

Antimony compounds have been known since ancient times and were used for cosmetics ; metallic antimony was also known, but it was erroneously identified as lead.

Although americium was likely produced in previous nuclear experiments, it was first intentionally synthesized, isolated and identified in late autumn 1944, at the University of California, Berkeley by Glenn T. Seaborg, Leon O. Morgan, Ralph A. James, and Albert Ghiorso.