FATAH REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Fatah Revolutionary Council mean? 

• FATAH REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL (noun)
  The noun FATAH REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL has 1 sense:

1. a Palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the PLO in 1974; has conducted terrorist attacks in 20 countries

  Familiarity information: FATAH REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FATAH REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL (noun)

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

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

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 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)