WordNet
n. a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals [syn: terrorist organization, foreign terrorist organization, FTO]
Usage examples of "terrorist group".
Nevertheless, this too argues for holding off on an invasion until the threat from al-Qa'eda in particular--the only international terrorist group that has demonstrated the ability to kill large numbers of Americans in the United States--has been further reduced.
That is the Federal Government playing word games in order to avoid what is potentially the single most embarrassing and humiliating situation since the public found out that the FBI had an informant inside the terrorist group that bombed the World Trade Center in New York —.
Model was once part of the BaaderMeinhof gang, the notorious German communist terrorist group from the '70s and '80s.
Nadhim was from Yemen and had been a member of one terrorist group or another since he was a teenager.
The other rooms held only personal possessions of the terrorist group.
Moreover, the hijackers in Berlin aren't from a German terrorist group.
Despite the total lack of a connection with a terrorist group, it was enough to follow up.
The teams were essentially for counterterrorism, the CIA told the Turks, intending to focus on the threat represented by Ansar al-Islam, a radical terrorist group that violently opposed the secular Kurdish parties and allegedly ran poison laboratories in a village in Iraq close to the Iranian border.
They had no previous connection to Malik, any terrorist group, or the Soviets.
Clark took his seat in that office, going over dispatches that pertained to his duties, in preparation for the morning SPO conference - they concerned themselves with which terrorist group was making noise at the moment.