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    ANO

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A Palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the PLO in 1974; has conducted terrorist attacks in 20 countriesplay

    Example:

    in the 1980s the Fatah-RC was considered the most dangerous and murderous Palestinian terror group

    Synonyms:

    Abu Nidal Organization; ANO; Arab Revolutionary Brigades; Black September; Fatah-RC; Fatah Revolutionary Council; Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

    Instance hypernyms:

    foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)

    Domain category:

    act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

    Domain region:

    Palestine (a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948)

    Al-Iraq; Irak; Iraq; Republic of Iraq (a republic in the Middle East in western Asia; the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia was in the area now known as Iraq)

    Lebanese Republic; Lebanon (an Asian republic at east end of Mediterranean)

    Libya; Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (a military dictatorship in northern Africa on the Mediterranean; consists almost entirely of desert; a major exporter of petroleum)

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