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Lebanese Sunni Militant Group Joins Shiite Hizbullah to Fight Israel
(AP) Bassem Mroue - The Secretary-General of al-Jamaa al-Islamiya, or the Islamic Group, Sheikh Mohammed Takkoush, said in Beirut on Tuesday that his faction decided to join the fighting along the Lebanon-Israel border. The Islamic Group has one member in Lebanon's legislature. Like Hamas, the group is inspired by the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood. It carries out attacks against Israel mainly from the city of Sidon. Takkoush said his group coordinates closely with Hizbullah, and with the Lebanese branch of Hamas.