Islamic Jihad
n 1: a Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran;
seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state
in Lebanon; car bombs are the signature weapon [syn: Hizballah,
Hezbollah, Hizbollah, Hizbullah, Lebanese
Hizballah, Party of God, Islamic Jihad for the
Liberation of Palestine, Revolutionary Justice
Organization, Organization of the Oppressed on Earth]
2: 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, Vanguards of Conquest]