Al-Jihad

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  al-Jihad
       n : an Islamic extremist group active since the late 1970s;
           seeks to overthrow the Egyptian government and replace it
           with an Islamic state; works in small underground cells;
           "the original Jihad was responsible for the assassination
           of Anwar Sadat in 1981" [syn: {Egyptian Islamic Jihad}, {Islamic


           Jihad}, {Vanguards of Conquest}]