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MAKTAB AL-KHIDMAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Maktab al-Khidmat mean? 

MAKTAB AL-KHIDMAT (noun)
  The noun MAKTAB AL-KHIDMAT has 1 sense:

1. a terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden in the 1980s to provide money and recruit fighters around the world; enlisted and transported thousands of men to Afghanistan to fight the Russians; a split in the group led bin Laden and the extremist faction of MAK to form al-Qaedaplay

  Familiarity information: MAKTAB AL-KHIDMAT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MAKTAB AL-KHIDMAT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden in the 1980s to provide money and recruit fighters around the world; enlisted and transported thousands of men to Afghanistan to fight the Russians; a split in the group led bin Laden and the extremist faction of MAK to form al-Qaeda

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

MAK; Maktab al-Khidmat

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)


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