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,
         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,
       Islamic Jihad, Vanguards of Conquest]