Search Result for "al-asifa": 
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a Palestinian political and military organization founded by Yasser Arafat in 1958 to work toward the creation of a Palestinian state; during the 1960s and 1970s trained terrorist and insurgent groups;
- Example: "al-Fatah carried out numerous acts of international terrorism in western Europe and the Middle East in the 1970s"
[syn: al-Fatah, Fatah, al-Asifa]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

al-Asifa n 1: a Palestinian political and military organization founded by Yasser Arafat in 1958 to work toward the creation of a Palestinian state; during the 1960s and 1970s trained terrorist and insurgent groups; "al-Fatah carried out numerous acts of international terrorism in western Europe and the Middle East in the 1970s" [syn: al-Fatah, Fatah, al-Asifa]