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al-Qaeda
[ al-key-duh, ‑-kahy-duh ]
noun
- a radical Sunni Muslim organization dedicated to the elimination of a Western presence in Arab countries and militantly opposed to Western foreign policy: founded by Osama bin Laden in 1988.
al-Qaeda
/ ælˈkaɪdə; ælkɑːˈiːdə /
noun
- a loosely-knit militant Islamic organization led and funded by Osama bin Laden, by whom it was established in the late 1980s from Arab volunteers who had fought the Soviet troops previously based in Afghanistan; known or believed to be behind a number of operations against Western, especially US, interests, including bomb attacks on two US embassies in Africa in 1998 and the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York in 2001
Al Qaeda
- An Islamic terrorist network headed by Osama bin Laden . It is generally believed to have been responsible for the September 11 attacks .
Word History and Origins
Origin of al-Qaeda1
Word History and Origins
Origin of al-Qaeda1
Example Sentences
Police officers discovered ricin pulp and a copy of an al-Qaeda manual at Rudakubana's house, but did not find any clear ideological reason for his attack, so did not classify it as terrorism.
Al-Shabab, which is affiliated to al-Qaeda, has been waging a brutal insurgency in Somalia for more than two decades.
HTS, a former al-Qaeda affiliate, is subject to separate sanctions because it continues to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the UN, US, EU and UK.
The next day, police found excerpts of an al-Qaeda training manual on one of the attacker's computers.
Bin Laden orchestrated the 9/11 attacks in 2001, where al-Qaeda terrorists took control of planes to kill thousands of people on American soil.
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