| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
|---|
| terrorist organization formed in 1979 by a faction of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine but disbanded in the 1980s when key members left to join a faction of al-Fatah |
15 May Organization
|
| Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization in Greece that is violently opposed to imperialism and capitalism and NATO and the United States; an active terrorist group during the 1980s |
17 November
,
Revolutionary Organization 17 November
|
| militant Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization formed in 1975 to force Turkey to acknowledge killing more than a million Armenians and forcibly removing them from border areas in 1915; wants Turkey to pay reparations and cede territory to Armenia |
3rd October Organization
,
Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia
,
ASALA
,
Orly Group
|
| group of elite soldiers or a leadership group of advisors or workers in an organization |
A-team
|
| international organization that provides a support group for persons trying to overcome alcoholism |
AA
,
Alcoholics Anonymous
|
| drinking problems, organization for |
AA
,
Alcoholics Anonymous
|
| Palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the PLO in 1974; has conducted terrorist attacks in 20 countries |
Abu Nidal Organization
,
ANO
,
Arab Revolutionary Brigades
,
Black September
,
Fatah-RC
,
Fatah Revolutionary Council
,
Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims
|
| act by a government body or supranational organization |
action
|
| place where a person or organization can be found or communicated with |
address
|
| organization with little or no structure |
adhocracy
|
| tiresome but essential details that must be taken care of and tasks that must be performed in running an organization |
administrivia
|
| connected person or organization |
affiliate
|
| subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is affiliated with another or with an organization |
affiliate
|
| subsidiary or subordinate organization that is affiliated with another organization |
affiliate
|
| Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan that fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s; now operates as a terrorist organization primarily in Kashmir and seeks Kashmir's accession by Pakistan |
Al Faran
,
Harkat-ul-Mujahidin
,
Harkat ul-Ansar
,
Harkat ul-Mujahedeen
,
HUA
,
HUM
,
Movement of Holy Warriors
|
| Palestinian terrorist organization formed in 2002 and linked to Fatah movement of Yasser Arafat |
Al Nathir
|
| terrorist organization formed in Pakistan in 2002 as a coalition of extremist Islamic militant groups including Lashkar-e-Taiba and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Jaish-e-Muhammad and elements of al-Qaeda |
Al Qanoon
,
Lashkar-e-Omar
|
| resurgent Islamic fundamentalist organization based in Nigeria that is thought to be planning terrorist attacks |
al Sunna Wal Jamma
,
Followers of the Phrophet
|
| Palestinian political and military organization founded by Yasser Arafat in 1958 to work toward the creation of a Palestinian state; during the 1960s and 1970s trained terrorist and insurgent groups |
al-Asifa
,
al-Fatah
,
Fatah
|
| terrorist organization of militant Islamists organized into tiny cells of extreme fundamentalists; emerged during the 1970s mainly in Egyptian jails |
al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya
,
Islamic Group
|
