London-based Arab language daily Asharq Al-Awsat reported Saturday that the leadership of Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the liquidation of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
had moved from Damascus
...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world...
to Tehran due to the ongoing fighting in Syria.
Paleostinian sources told the newspaper that the terrorist group's leader, Ramadan Shallah, was working mainly from Iran, and that his deputy had been there for weeks. They stressed that the move did not indicate any break between the organization and the regime of Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
An Islamic Jihad representative in the Gazoo Strip denied the report.
Over 17,000 people have been killed in the 16-month long conflict in Syria, which is now being widely described as a civil war. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimated earlier this week that approximately 120,000 Syrian refugees were in neighboring countries, and another 1 million citizens were displaced internally in the war-torn country.