Search Result for "maktab al-khidmat":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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-Qaeda;
[syn: Maktab al-Khidmat, MAK]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Maktab al-Khidmat n 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-Qaeda [syn: Maktab al-Khidmat, MAK]