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 Islamic Jihad
      n 1: 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: Hizballah,
            Hezbollah, Hizbollah, Hizbullah, Lebanese
           Hizballah, Party of God, Islamic Jihad for the
           Liberation of Palestine, Revolutionary Justice
           Organization, Organization of the Oppressed on Earth]
      2: 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;
         "the original Jihad was responsible for the assassination
         of Anwar Sadat in 1981" [syn: al-Jihad, Egyptian
         Islamic Jihad, Vanguards of Conquest]