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maktab al-khidmat

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  • noun 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

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  1. foreign terrorist organization
  2. fto
  3. terrorist group
  4. terrorist organization

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