noun
an extremist Palestinian Sunni group active in Lebanon in the early 1990s that advocates Salafism; responsible for murders and bombings; seeks to overthrow the Lebanese government and control Palestinian refugee camps; funded by al-Qaeda
• Syn: ↑Band of Partisans
• Topics: ↑terrorism, ↑act of terrorism, ↑terrorist act
• Regions: ↑Lebanon, ↑Lebanese Republic
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑terrorist organization, ↑terrorist group, ↑foreign terrorist organization, ↑FTO
Useful english dictionary. 2012.