GIA http://i-cias.com/cgi-bin/eo-direct.pl?gia.htm
From French: Group Islamique armé. The most active militant Islamist group in Algeria, responsible for a majority of the actions performed in second half of the 1990's.
Gnosticism http://i-cias.com/cgi-bin/eo-direct.pl?gnostici.htm
A Middle Eastern religious and philosophical orientation that grew strong in the 1st century CE, exercising strong influence on Judaism and Christianity and at times representing a strong and competing theology.