Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun abu_sayyaf

1 sense of abu sayyaf

Sense 1
Abu Sayyaf, Bearer of the Sword -- (a small gang of terrorist thugs claiming to seek a separate Islamic state for the Muslim minority in the Philippines; uses bombing and assassination and extortion and kidnapping; "In 2001 Abu Sayyaf kidnapped twenty people and beheaded one of the American captives")
       INSTANCE OF=> terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO -- (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)