israel attacked Attack with 37 air strikes Attack on gazan weapons storage facilities , rocket launching Self_motion sites , weapon manufacturing Manufacturing facilities , training Education_teaching bases , posts , tunnels and militants , killing Killing 22 , mostly from palestinian islamic jihad and the others from the popular resistance committees .

On 9 August 1999 , Islamist fighters from Chechnya infiltrated Russia 's Dagestan region , declaring it an independent state and calling for a jihad until `` all unbelievers had been driven out '' .

The war Hostile_encounter began Process_start slowly as it first appeared Change_sentiment the government had successfully crushed Bodily_harm the Islamist movement , but armed groups emerged Coming_to_be to fight Hostile_encounter jihad and by 1994 , violence Violence had reached Arriving such a level that it appeared Change_sentiment the government might not be able to withstand Defending it .

Usman dan Fodio assembled Come_together a Fulani army to lead in jihad against the Hausa kingdoms of the north of Nigeria .

In Dagestan , resistance Defending to the Russians was described Statement as jihad .

an alliance of islamic jihad and the popular resistance Control committees claimed Statement responsibility for the attack Attack , stating Statement that it was carried out Action in reprisal for the assassinations of hamas leaders sheikh ahmad yassin and abdelaziz rantisi by the israeli army some weeks earlier .