al-Jihad
    n 1: 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]