Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
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;
- Example: "the original Jihad was responsible for the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981"[syn: al-Jihad, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Islamic Jihad, Vanguards of Conquest]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Vanguards of Conquest
n 1: 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: al-Jihad, Egyptian Islamic
Jihad, Islamic Jihad, Vanguards of Conquest]