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AL-ITIHAAD AL-ISLAMIYA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does al-Itihaad al-Islamiya mean?
• AL-ITIHAAD AL-ISLAMIYA (noun)
The noun AL-ITIHAAD AL-ISLAMIYA has 1 sense:
1. a fundamentalist Islamic group in Somalia who initially did fundraising for al-Qaeda; responsible for ambushing United States Army Rangers and for terrorist bombings in Ethiopia; believed to have branches in several countries
Familiarity information: AL-ITIHAAD AL-ISLAMIYA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• AL-ITIHAAD AL-ISLAMIYA (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A fundamentalist Islamic group in Somalia who initially did fundraising for al-Qaeda; responsible for ambushing United States Army Rangers and for terrorist bombings in Ethiopia; believed to have branches in several countries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
AIAI; al-Itihaad al-Islamiya; al Itihaad al Islamiya; Islamic Unity
Instance hypernyms:
foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)
Domain category:
act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)
Domain region:
Somalia (a republic in extreme eastern Africa on the Somali peninsula; subject to tribal warfare)
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