The jihad groups clearly were proud of it, and eager to pass its lessons around.

He outlines how a jihad group works and describes his training and use of weapons.

Vergyl said as his ballista rejoined the Jihad group.

The jihad groups were no exception.

At the beginning of August, the Jihad group said that three of its members had been arrested here and turned over to the Egyptian authorities.

He listened to taped lectures on the subject of Jihad and then he said he "felt like joining a jihad group."

Jihad groups had the means to reproduce lesson plans in bulk, and distribute them in neat folders, as most modern militaries do.

Mamdouh Ismail, Egyptian defence attorney and a former member of "the Jihad group"

All were said to be members of the Jihad group behind the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in 1981.

The merger of his Tawhid and Jihad group with Al Qaeda in 2004 was a case of mutual exploitation.