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Fathi Shaqaqi, alternatively spelled Fathi Shqaqi or Fathi Shiqaqi, (1951 – 1995) was the Palestinian who founded and led the Palestinian Islamic Jihad organisation and the initiator of suicide bombings. Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine (حركة الجهاد الإسلامي في فلسطين - Harakat al-Jihād al-Islāmi fi Filastīn This article is about suicide attacks for political and/or military reasons
He formed along with Sheik Odeh (aka Abd Al Aziz Awda) the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip during the 1970s, initially as a branch of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Abd Al Aziz Awda, also known as Sheik Odeh (born December 20, 1950 in Jabaliyah, Gaza Strip) has Palestinian citizenship The Gaza Strip (قطاع غزة, רצועת עזה Retzu'at 'Azza) is a coastal strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea, bordering Egypt on the south-west This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. The Egyptian Islamic Jihad ( الجهاد الإسلامي المصري) ( EIJ) formerly called simply Islamic Jihad ( الجهاد Among the Sunni’s, Fathi Shiqaqi was the first individual who published a booklet which legitimized, for the first time the justification of suicide in jihad. He called it sacrifice. Not only the suicide was legitimized but also the operation, he drew the line between prohibited suicide and martyrdom.
He was shot in 1995 in front of the Diplomat Hotel in Sliema, Malta, by unknown perpetrators. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Sliema (or Tas-Sliema) is a town located on the northeast coast of Malta. Malta, officially the Republic of Malta (Repubblika ta' Malta is a European Microstate, comprising an Archipelago of three islands Shaqaqi, travelling under the false name of Dr Ibrahim Shaweshi, had come to Malta four times since 1993. A pseudonym is a fictitious alternative to a person's legal name (see Alias) He was on his way to Tripoli to visit Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi who was promising to help finance Shaqaqi’s factions. Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi 1 (معمر القذافي) (born 7 June 1942) also known as Colonel Gaddafi
A man walked up to Shaqaqi as he was returning to his hotel and shot him in quick succession with a gun equipped with a silencer and a container to hold the used cartridges. Shaqaqi’s assassins had smuggled a motorcycle into Malta which they used to escape with after shooting the Palestinian leader. Abandoning the motorcycle, a third individual drove them to the Msida Marina from where they most probably boarded a fast boat which took them out at sea and eventually to a large ship from where the whole operation was probably directed. The Maltese police were only able to identify the corpse three days later. His funeral in Damascus on 1 Nov. Damascus ( دمشق,, also commonly known as الشام ash-Shām) is the capital and largest city of Syria. 1995 was attended by some 40,000.
Fathi Shaqaqi's brother Khalil Shiqaqi is the director of the Nablus-based Center for Palestinian Research and Studies (CPRS). Nablus ( sometimes Nābulus; Arabic:; næːblʊs is a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank, approximately north of Jerusalem
After Shaqaqi's 1995 death, Palestinian Islamic Jihad has been since led by fellow co-founder Sheikh Abdullah Ramadan Shallah, aka Ramadan Abdullah Mohammad Shallah, who then joined the earlier listing of fellow PIJ co-founder Abd Al Aziz Awda as a "Specially Designated Terrorist" under United States law on November 27, 1995, and both Shallah and Awda were subsequently indicted on 53 RICO charges, and consequently became two of the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists on February 24, 2006. Ramadan Abdullah Mohammad Shallah (رمضان عبد الله محمد شلح is a Palestinian academic and one of the founders of Palestinian Islamic Jihad The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 1095 - Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (commonly referred to as RICO Act or RICO) is a United States federal law that provides for extended The Federal Bureau of Investigation 's " Most Wanted Terrorists " is a list of Fugitives who have been indicted by sitting Federal Grand Juries Events 303 - Galerius, Roman Emperor, publishes his edict that begins the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
External links
- Bio of Fathi Shiqaqi from the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs, Jerusalem
- "Palestinians mark 12th anniversary of Fathi Shaqaqi martyrdom" in .wmv
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