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Noun: al-Jihad
  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
    - Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Islamic Jihad, Vanguards of Conquest

Type of: foreign terrorist organisation [Brit], foreign terrorist organization, FTO, terrorist group, terrorist organisation [Brit], terrorist organization

Encyclopedia: Al-Jihad