International Justice Group (Gama'a al-Adela al-Alamiya) is the name of an Islamist terror organization that claimed responsibility for two high-profile attacks on Egyptian targets in Switzerland and Pakistan.  The group is thought to be a branch or front-name for al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya (GAI), one of Egypt's largest extremist groups. <P><br /><br />IJG first emerged in November 1995, when they claimed responsibility for the assassination of Ahmed Alaa Nazmi, an Egyptian commercial attach&#233; in Geneva.  Although Nazmi's official capacity was as a trade representative to the World Trade Organization, the IJG claimed that Nazmi was killed because he was a secret agent involved in hunting down Egyptian Islamists abroad.  The Egyptian government denied that Nazmi was an intelligence agent, and no proof has ever been shown to support IJG's claim. <P><br /><br />Scarcely a week after Nazmi's assassination, a powerful car bomb was detonated in front of the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan.  The blast killed over a dozen people and injured many more.  Although GAI was the first to claim responsibility for the attack, IJG and Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ or al-Jihad) soon followed suit.  In IJG's claim of responsibility, the group demanded the release of Sheik Omar Ahmad Ali Abdel-Rahman, leader of GAI who was imprisoned in the United States for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.  Despite the multiple claims, it is widely believed that GAI was responsible for the attack and that IJG was simply a mouthpiece.  <P><br /><br />These attacks were part of a concerted effort by Egyptian Islamists to take their war with Egypt's secular government abroad.  Islamists had been fighting a low-level insurrection against the government for several years, leading to hundreds of deaths.  At the time of the attacks, the Egyptian government had been cracking down on extremism within the country, arresting many top leaders of groups such as GAI and the Muslim Brotherhood.  Experts saw the international attacks in Switzerland and Pakistan (as well as an earlier bombing in Croatia) as a sign that terrorists in Egypt were feeling the effects of the crackdown. <P><br /><br />Despite a wave of attacks abroad, the Islamist insurrection soon returned to Egyptian territory.  In the mid to late 1990s Egypt saw several extremely violent attacks perpetrated by Islamists, most notably the 1997 massacre of dozens of tourists at Luxor by GAI.  Many sources saw the resurgence of domestic attacks as a "last gasp" for the Islamists, struggling under the brutal government crackdown. <P><br /><br />Most experts believe IJG to be a branch or front name of GAI. Although there is no concrete proof to support this theory, it is highly unlikely that a previously unknown group could carry out far-flung operations against hard diplomatic targets. Furthermore, IJG did not claim responsibility for further attacks after the Islamabad bombing.  At the very least, the two groups share a common ideology of extremist Islam and a desire to establish Islamic law in secular Egypt.<br />