WordNet
n. a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad; "some call the mujahidin international warriors but others just call them terrorists" [syn: mujahidin, mujahedeen, mujahadeen, mujahadin, mujahideen, mujahadein]
Wikipedia
Mujahedin (in Arabic مجاهدين) with variants Mujahedeen, Mujahideen, Mudjahidin, Mogahidin etc. is the plural of mujahed. The root word is from the same Arabic triliteral root as jihad ("struggle").
Mujahedin or Mujahedeen may refer to:
- Mujahideen, a term that Muslims use to describe those they see as Muslims who struggle in the path of Allah. In recent years, Mujahideen has been most closely associated by the west with radical Islam, encompassing several militant jihadist groups and struggles.
- Mujahedin-e Khalq, or People's Mujahedin of Iran, Iranian leftist revolutionary organization
- Mujahedin Freedom Fighters Front of Afghanistan
- Mujahedin Brigade, or Bosnian mujahideen
- Mujahedeen KOMPAK, Darul Islam Indonesian organisation
- Mujahedeen Secrets or Asrar al-Mujahedeen, encryption software used for online communications. The software was developed by Al-Qaeda
- Mujahideen Shura Council (Afghanistan)
- Mujahideen Shura Council (Iraq)
- Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem (Egypt, Gaza)
Usage examples of "mujahedin".
By 1994, the Soviets were long gone from Afghanistan and the victorious Mujahedin had fallen to infighting.
I never saw him, but every other word from the mujahedin would be on the subject of how great he was.
Two mujahedin were sitting cross-legged on the floor, wrapped in blankets and cradling their AKs.
From there Zilic ranged outwards, avoiding the dangerous Mujahedin, looking for softer targets among any Bosnian Muslim communities who might lack armed protection.
I had heard of Muslim fanatics, Mujahedin from the Middle East, Iran and Saudi Arabia, who also marauded through Bosnia and would kill any Serb on sight.
In 1986 he had been sent to Peshawar to assist in the training of the disparate groups of mujahedin based in the Afghan refugee camps in the area.
Although the instructors training the mujahedin had been drawn from the Pakistan army, the CIA had also been involved, gathering intelligence by monitoring Soviet ground and air communications.
This setback had in no way deterred the mujahedin and at first the operation had gone extremely well.
The mujahedin had won a great victory and if ever there had been a time for guerrillas to melt away it had been then.
But one obstinate Russian gunner in the turret of a BTR 70 had killed and wounded eight men and the mujahedin had wanted vengeance.
By the time the mujahedin had decided to withdraw from the battlefield a flight of MiG 27 and two gunships based at Kabul were already airborne.
There are no grounds to believe that a NATO armoured division would have fared any better than these mujahedin without nuclear support .
Ronald Reagan who signed National Security Decision Directive 166 in March 1985 that called for us to arm and finance the Mujahedin to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan.
With no way of stopping the mujahedin rebels from being supplied with Stinger antiaircraft missiles by the United States, they had lost their air cover, which in turn meant the dismal prospect of either escalating the war beyond international tolerance or settling in to fight a protracted war of attrition that would inevitably lead to unrest at home and the disruption of his economic and social restructuring programs.
The twelve-man team he now commanded had served with him in Afghanistan, running long-range insertions into mujahedin-held territory--specializing in assassinations of the rebels command structure and cross-border operations into Pakistan against commanders of the mujahedin base camps and staging areas.