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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a small gang of terrorist thugs claiming to seek a separate Islamic state for the Muslim minority in the Philippines; uses bombing and assassination and extortion and kidnapping;
- Example: "In 2001 Abu Sayyaf kidnapped twenty people and beheaded one of the American captives"
[syn: Abu Sayyaf, Bearer of the Sword]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Bearer of the Sword
    n 1: a small gang of terrorist thugs claiming to seek a separate
         Islamic state for the Muslim minority in the Philippines;
         uses bombing and assassination and extortion and
         kidnapping; "In 2001 Abu Sayyaf kidnapped twenty people and
         beheaded one of the American captives" [syn: Abu Sayyaf,
         Bearer of the Sword]