Most Dangerous Terrorist Groups in the World

Egyptian Islamic Jihad:

The Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) was previously called as Islamic Jihad and originally referred to as "al-Jihad," and then "the Jihad Group", or "the Jihad Organization". It is an Egyptian Islamist group active since the late 1970s. It is under worldwide prohibition by the United Nations as an affiliate of al-Qaeda. It is also banned by several individual governments including that of the Russian Federation. From 1991, it has been led by Ayman al-Zawahiri. The organization's original chief goal was to overthrow the Egyptian Government and replace it with an Islamic state. Later it extended its aims to include attacking United States and Israeli interests in Egypt and abroad.

EIJ has suffered slowed down as a result of numerous arrests of operatives worldwide, most recently in Lebanon and Yemen. In June 2001, al-Qaeda and Egyptian Islamic Jihad, which were associated with each other for many years, merged into "Qaeda al-Jihad".