Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami

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Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (Arabic: حركة الجهاد الإسلامي‎, meaning Movement of Islamic Holy War) (HuJI) is a Sunni Islamic fundamentalist paramilitary organization. Formed in 1980 to fight the Soviets in the Soviet-Afghan War, HuJI continued in existence after the Soviet withdrawal in 1989. In 1993, HuJI merged with a group known as Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HUM) to form Harkat-ul-Ansar (HUA). They dissolved back into separate entities after HUA was labeled a terrorist organization by the United States in 1997. HuJI, with an estimated 2,000 dedicated fighters among 15,000 odd members, is also closely affiliated with al-Qaeda.

HuJI has recently come to international attention for its actions in Bangladesh. Committed to establishing an Islamic rule akin to the Taliban in Afghanistan, HuJI failed in a scheme to assassinate the prime minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina around the year 2000, and has been blamed for a number of bombings in 2005. In October 2005 it was officially banned by the government of Bangladesh.

On April,2006, the state police Special Task Force in India uncovered a plot hatched by six HUJI terrorists, including the mastermind behind the 2006 Varanasi bombings, involving the destruction of two Hindu temples in the Indian city of Ramnavami. Maps of their plans were recovered during their arrest. Pakistani passports had been in the possession of the arrested[1].

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