Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun maktab_al-khidmat

1 sense of maktab al-khidmat

Sense 1
Maktab al-Khidmat, MAK -- (a terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden in the 1980s to provide money and recruit fighters around the world; enlisted and transported thousands of men to Afghanistan to fight the Russians; a split in the group led bin Laden and the extremist faction of MAK to form al-Qaeda)
       INSTANCE OF=> terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO -- (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)