Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine

This article is about Hezbollah-linked Shia militant group in Lebanon. For Palestinian Jihadist organization, see Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine.

Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine (IJLP) was a Lebanese Shia group that claimed credit for the January 24, 1987 abduction of three American and one Indian professors – Alann Steen, Jesse Turner, Robert Pohill, Mithal Eshwar Singh – from Beirut University College in West Beirut.[1] [2] They were eventually released.

References

  1. New York Times, January 25, 1987, March 19, 1987. A9, September 28, 1988. A9
  2. New York Times, March 19, 1987. A9, September 28, 1988. A9
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