| palestine islamic jihad | (n) a militant Palestinian terrorist group created in 1979 and committed to the creation of an Islamic state in Palestine and to the destruction of Israel; smaller and more exclusively militant that Hamas, Syn. Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PIJ, Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami al-Filastini |
| al-jihad | (n) 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, Syn. Vanguards of Conquest, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Islamic Jihad |
| hizballah | (n) 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. Hizbollah, Lebanese Hizballah, Hizbullah, Party of God, Organization of the Oppressed on Earth, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Revolutionary Justice Organization, Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine |
